Top 10 Largest Ports in Africa 2020
Top 10 Biggest Ports in Africa 2020
Welcome to Displore and thanks for watching. In today’s video, we shall be taking you across Africa and shinning the light on the top 10 biggest ports in Africa as of 2020.With over 90% of Africa’s imports and exports conducted by sea, there is an increasing need for innovation and development in the field of maritime. Africa covers about 6% of the earth’s total surface with 38 of its 54 states either coastal or insular in nature, Africa has over a hundred port facilities, a few of which handle 6% of the worldwide water-borne cargo traffic and about 3% of the world’s container traffic.The ports in African continent are not just of a touristic nature but also a field of serious business. And there is high competition between the different ports because they all want the title of the biggest port. With Africa being such an important continent, its ports tend to be significant points for transportation and connection with other countries.
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Africa's ports have made huge progress in recent years, with massive benefits being reaped through successful port management partnerships. Inclusion in Sea Freight Middle East's Top Ten Ports is based not only on throughout but also on improvements and investment plans. The measuring unit we shall be using is this video is “TEU” Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit which an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals. So, without any further ado, are the top 10 biggest ports in Africa as of 2020.
10. Damietta Port (Egypt) – 1.2m TEUs
Egypt's Damietta Port is located 10km west of the Nile river of Damietta branch westward Ras El-Bar, 70km to the west of Port Said and 200km from Alexandria Port. The port installations extend on an area of 11.8 km2. The port is bordered by an imaginary line connecting the eastern and western external breakwaters. The Entrance Channel is 11.4km long, 15m deep, and 300m wide decreasingly reaching 250m at the breakwater fringe, the approach channel is bordered by 18 nightly-lit buoys. The western breakwater is 1640m long with 140m land-based and 1500m sea-based area. The eastern breakwater is 738m long with 200m land-based and 538m sea-based area.Both breakwaters are made of stacked artificial acrobod piles topped with a concrete head .The barge channel consists of two sections; one is 1350m long connecting the barge dock to the sea and the other is 3750m connecting the dock to the Nile estuary. At 1.2m TEU, Damietta port is the 10th largest port in Africa.
9. Tema port, Ghana– 1.21m TEUs
The Tema Harbour is in Tema located in the southeaster part of Ghana, along the Gulf of Guinea. Tema is a member of the International Association of Ports and Harbours. The construction of the harbour was proposed by British Colonial Officers in the Gold Coast before its independence. After independence, under the leadership of Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, the construction of the harbour began in the 1950s with planning led by the award-winning city planner and the first Ghanaian architect, Theodore S. Clerkand was commissioned in 1962.The harbour lies along the Gulf of Guinea and is 18 miles from Accra, the capital of Ghana. The harbour has a water-enclosed area of 1.7 million square metres and covers a total land area of 3.9 million square metres. The harbour has 5 kilometres of breakwaters, 12 deep-water berths, one oil-tanker berth, one dockyard, warehouses, and transit sheds. It also serves as a major transit point for goods from land-locked countries to the north of Ghana. Most of the country’s chief export, cacao, is shipped from Tema. The harbour handles 80% of Ghana's national exports and imports.
8. Port of Abidjan, Ivory Coast – 1.3m TEUs
The Autonomous Port of Abidjan is a commercial port at Treichville, in southern Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is a transhipment and intermodal facility and is managed as a public industrial and commercial establishment. The Port of Abidjan opened in 1951 after the development of the Vridi Canal, which enables deep-sea ships to use the port. It is the most important port in West Africa and the second most important in Africa after the Port of Durban. It is a major contributor to the economy of Ivory Coast, and the greater part of the external trade of landlocked countries such as
