Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa

<p>Strategically located half-way down the coast of Namibia, with direct access to principal shipping routes, Walvis Bay is a natural gateway for international trade. Walvis Bay is Namibia&#39;s largest commercial port, receiving approximately 3,000 vessel calls each year and handling about 5 million tonnes of cargo. In order to deal with even higher levels of throughput, cargo-handling facilities have been improved, and Namibia Port Authority (Namport) remains committed to infrastructure development, in line with Namport&#39;s Mission to provide efficient and effective port and related services.</p>

<p>The project will expand the Port of Walvis Bay"’s container handling as well as bulk handling capacity ahead of demand by the construction of a 30 hectare large new modern container terminal on reclaimed land with 600m of quay wall length designed for a water depth of 16.5m alongside but dredged to 14.0m initially. In so doing the current container terminal will be converted back to a multipurpose terminal capable of handling more bulk and break bulk cargo.</p>

Expansion of Pointe Noire Port (Republic of Congo).

<p>The project comprise of the following: (1) complete or initiate dredging of port of Mwanza to restore design depths of generally around 6 m on approach to, in anchorage and along Berths; (2) establish a watercourse management system to minimize soil erosion and sedimentation at ports; and (3) rehabilitating or establishing of areas and ramps to accommodate vehicles (in particular MAFI trailers and forklifts) involved with RoRo operations at ports.</p>

<p>Upgrading of Kisumu Lake Port in Kenya, including modernization, navigation aid, dredging and sedimentation protection.</p>

<p>The project involves the modernisation of the Dar es Salaam Port, including upgrade to berths 1 to 7, deepening of the harbour, improveing cargo handling and port layout.</p>

<p>Development of new container terminal (berths 13 and 14) with dredging of the access channel at Dar es Salaam Port.</p>

<p>This project includes development of 3 new berths on the eastern side of Dar es Salaam port, linked by a bridge south of the existing dockyard and fronting the new Kigamboni city extension. The new berths will allow avoidance of access chanel limitations making it possible to handle 6th generation vessels.</p>