Ports in Africa

The largest port in Africa and the Mediterranean, opened in 2007 on the Strait of Gibraltar. About 8 million TEU a year pass throu...

The busiest port in sub-Saharan Africa, handling about 2.5 million TEU a year for the South African interior. The 2021 unrest and ...

The coal and bulk giant of South Africa, opened in 1976. The Richards Bay Coal Terminal is among the largest in the world, exporti...

The deepest natural port in southern Africa, exporting iron ore since 1976 over the 861 kilometer Sishen railway. Around 60 millio...

Founded by Alexander in 331 BC, the greatest harbor of the Hellenistic world. The Pharos lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders, and...

An ancient Swahili trading city on an island whose Kilindini harbor serves Kenya and the landlocked hinterland of Uganda, Rwanda, ...

A small state at the Bab el-Mandeb strait whose port lives on transit cargo for Ethiopia, linked by road and the electrified Addis...

Apapa and Tin Can Island in Lagos harbor handle most Nigerian container imports, long plagued by truck queues and congestion on ac...

Founded by Phoenicians from Tyre, traditionally in 814 BC, Carthage dominated western Mediterranean trade with its famous double h...

Sultan Said bin Sultan moved the capital of the Omani empire to Zanzibar in the 1840s, turning the island into the leading market ...