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Tianjin Port of China

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Location

Tianjin port which is previously known as the port of Tanggu, located at the head of the Hai River, is the main maritime gateway to Beijing.

This port is 170 km southeast of Beijing and 60 km east of Tianjin city. It is about 26 nautical miles inland from the Bohai Gulf off the Yellow Sea on China’s east coast.

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History

In the 1st Century BC, Tianjin port was used during the Han Dynasty for the first time. Then this harbor started to be improved during the Tang Dynasty (from the early 7th Century to the early 10th Century AD). The modern Tianjin port started to develop during the Ming Dynasty (ruled from 1368 until 1644) when the Chinese capital city was moved to Beijing.

As this port became the major trade gateway to Beijing, its economy progressed, and its population increased because of immigrants.

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The Port of Tianjin became a significant economic center by the beginning of the Manchu Qing Dynasty (mid-17th Century) and commerce continued to improve for many years as waterways were facilitated.

Over 200 thousand people lived in the Port of Tianjin by 1900 and still the port of Tianjin continued to be a busy and an important shipping center in the 20th Century. It was under the direct administration of the national government.

In 1935, the Japanese military tried to extend their domination in North China, planning to administer their new territory from the Tianjin port so the Sino-Japanese War began in 1937 and the Japanese occupied Tianjin.

Also during China’s Civil War of the late 1940s, it was held by the Nationalists until 1949 when the Communists took this city. Since then, it has been a vitally significant commerce center and it was one of the cities that hosted the 2008 Olympic Games.

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Significance

In 2013 Tianjin Port handled 500 million tonnes of cargo and 13 million TEU of containers which had made it as the world’s fourth largest port by throughput tonnage and the ninth in container throughput. Tianjin port trades with more than 600 ports in 180 countries around the globe.

Its improvement in the last two decades was significant. In 1993 it traded 30 million tonnes of cargo and 490,000 TEU which improved to 400 million tonnes and 10 million TEU in 2012! And still its capacity is increasing at high speed.

The Port of Tianjin’s manufacturing sector is the biggest and fastest-growing part of the city’s economy. Rice, wheat, and maize are its most important crops. Also fishing is important to the local economy.

Tianjin port also has a vital industrial sector which is dominated by petrochemical industries, car manufacturers, textiles, metalworking, and mechanical industries.

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Facilities

Tianjin port is a complete full-service port that handles all types of cargoes including containers, liquid and dry bulk, general cargo, and vehicles. It also serves passengers. This port is made up of five main areas including Beijiang, Haihe, Nanjiang, Beigang, and Dongjiang.

• Channels

Tianjin port includes several shipping channels. Its main shipping channel is 39.5 kilometers long which can accommodate vessels of 300 thousand DWT at high tide and of 200 thousand DWT at other times.

Upgrades began and made the Port of Tianjin’s Main Shipping Channel suitable for all-tide two-way traffic for vessels of as much as 300 thousand DWT. This upgraded Main Shipping Channel of Tianjin is 407 meters wide, 21 meters deep and 33.3 kilometers long.

Other channels which are separate from the main channel are Dagusha Channel that is 27.5-kilometer long and North Branch Channel that is 8.5-kilometer long.

• Anchorages

Tianjin port contains seven major anchorages, all of which are determined for waiting for berths, quarantine, inspection, and pilotage. They offer limited shelter in bad weather especially in winter that anchor-dragging is common.

• Container terminals

• The Tianjin Orient Container Terminal which consists four berths for vessels to 100 thousand DWT.
• The Tianjin Port Alliance International Container Terminal that has three berths for vessels to 100 thousand DWT.
• The Tianjin Port Container Terminal that includes four berths (One of them can accommodate vessels of 25 thousand DWT, and three can accommodate vessels of 50 thousand DWT).
• Tianjin Port Euroasia International Container Terminal with three berths (Two of them can accommodate vessels of 100 thousand DWT, and one of them serves vessels of 70 thousand DWT).
• The Port of Tianjin Shenghua International Container Terminal that consists three berths serving 100 thousand DWT vessels.
• Tianjin Port Pacific International Container Terminal with six berths accommodating vessels of 100 thousand DWT.

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• Bulk and break bulk terminals:
• The Goods and Materials Cooperation Terminal in the port of Tianjin handles bulk cargoes at one 75-meter berth with alongside depth of 5 meters and is served by two quay cranes.
• The Port of Tianjin’s 1.2-hectare Guojiadai Terminal with four berths and a quay length of 326 meters is another bulk terminal.
• The Tianjin Shangyuan Terminal which has one berth handling bulk cargoes and a quay of 97 meters.
• The Hanjiang Specialized Ore Terminal that has one berth serving vessels to 300 thousand DWT with quay length of 400 meters.
• The Phase I Shenhua Tianjin Coal Terminal with annual capacity for 45 million tons of bulk cargo has three berths with total quay length of 890 meters.
• The Phase II Shenhua Tianjin Coal Terminal has three berths serving vessels of 50 thousand, 70 thousand, and 150 thousand DWT.
• The 10-hectare Tianjin Port Coke Terminal can handle 1.8 million tons of bulk ore cargoes per year and has two berths that can accommodate 70 thousand DWT vessels with a quay of 684 meters long.
• The Tianjin Port Yuanhang Ore Terminal that has two berths with capacity for 200 thousand DWT vessels and total quay length of 445 meters.
• The 30-hectare Tianjin Port Huaneng Coal Terminal with annual capacity to handle four million tons of coal per year has four berths with total quay length of 1110 meters
• The Tianjin Port Dry Bulk Terminal in the Nanjiang port Area has seven berths handling bulk cargoes.
• The Fourth Stevedoring Company Terminal handles timber and mineral ores and has five berths that can accommodate vessels of 30 thousand DWT.
• The Port of Tianjin’s 35-hectare Fifth Stevedoring Company Terminal handles 2.3 million tons of bulk and general cargoes per year and has five berths and a total quay length of 996 meters.
• The Port of Tianjin has two service wharves for bulk cargoes. The Dongjiang Construction Materials Terminal that serves up to 1.3 million tons of sea sand and stone per year. And The Nanjiang Harbor Terminal which can handle 4.5 million tons of bulk cargo per year.

• Oil / liquid Terminals:
• The Heibei Maritime Transport Terminal Located at the Shuixian Wharf handles liquid bulk cargoes. It has two berths and total quay length of 145 meters.
• The Dagu Chemical Company Liquid Chemical Terminal which handles cargoes of propylene and liquid lye and has berths serves vessels of three thousand DWT.
• The Port of Tianjin’s North Sea Oil and Grain Company Terminal has two berths serving vessels of three thousand DWT. Its Quay length is 150 meters.
• The Jinghai Petrochemical 908 Wharf has two berths accommodating vessels of three thousand DWT.
• The 30-hectare Tianjin Binhai Alliance Petrochemical Terminal has two berths for three thousand DWT vessels
• The Tianlong Liquid Chemical Company Terminal has one berth for liquid bulk vessels of three thousand DWT and a Quay length of 120 meters
• The Port of Tianjin’s Great Wall Lubricants Terminal is handling oil and has one 120-meter quay.
• The Xinhe Oil Storage and Distribution Center Terminal has one berth for vessels of three thousand DWT and a quay of 123 meters.
• The Port of Tianjin’s 40-hectare Sinochem Tianjin Port Petrochemical Terminal can handle five million tons of oil per year. This port has three berths
• The Port of Tianjin’s Tianjin Port Shihua Crude Oil Terminal has one berth that can accommodate 300 thousand DWT vessels.
• The Tianjin Port Petrochemical Terminal with four berths has annual capacity for 20 million tons of oil per year.
• The Tianjin Port PetroChina Crude Oil Terminal has one berth with alongside depth of 22 meters (72 feet) for 300 thousand DWT vessels
• The Tianjin Port CNOOC Crude Oil Terminal with one berth for 300 thousand DWT vessels.
• Ro/Ro terminals:

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The Port of Tianjin has two roll-on/roll-off terminals in the Beijiang port area including: the 13.8 hectare Tianjin Port RO-RO Terminal and the 34-hectare TPG Global RO-RO Terminal.

• General and multi-purpose terminals:
• Huicheng General Cargo Terminal has annual capacity for 11 million tons of general cargo.
• The Tianjin Xingang Sinor Terminal handles general and specialist cargoes, particularly square-shaped cargoes.
• Sinotrans Tianjin Xinhe Distribution Terminal handles general cargoes and has five berths for three thousand DWT vessels.

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Moreover Tianjin port benefits from cruise and passenger terminals, yachting marinas, stevedores, logistics companies, tugboat operators, and pilot services.

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Dalian Port of China

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Location

Dalian port founded in 1899 is located at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula on the Yellow Sea which is in southern Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Dalian port is about 470 kilometers southeast of Beijing and about 80 nautical miles northeast, across the Yellow Sea, from the port of Yantai.

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History

In the 2nd Century BC, Lushun (today’s Dalian port) was a significant entry port for southern Manchuria which was settled by Chinese colonists of the Han Dynasty in the late 2nd century BC. The Manchus got Dalian port in 1633, and it became an important port for coastal defense from 1644 until the early 20th Century. In the late 19th Century, Dalian port was re-fortified and chosen as a place for China’s first modern navy.

During Sino-Japanese War (1890), it was captured by the Japanese but western powers intervened, and the Dalian port was returned to China again. Russia in 1897 occupied the Liaodong Peninsula. During the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army occupied Dalian port, forcing the Russians to withdraw. The 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth formally transferred the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan so it became Japan’s military and administrative headquarters for the region. Japan continued to develop this port and made it an important industrial place.

China and the Soviet Union agreed to share the Port of Dalian for 30 years after World War II. Dalian Port Corporation was created in 1982 and the Port of Dalian won the Hong Kong Annual National Quality Management Award in 1984. The 1990s brought new development, new goals, and new recognition to the port of Dalian. In 2000, the port of Dalian’s workers were recognized as “National Model Workers,” and this improvement continued until 2006 that Dalian port was named as a “national industrial tourism demonstration site” by China’s National Tourism Administration.

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Significance

Dalian port occupies an important strategic position at the entrance to the Gulf of Chihli, commanding maritime access to the port of Tianjin. In 2002, almost 2.2 million people lived in the port of Dalian. It is a busy industrial center and the biggest shipping center in China which supports a large fishing fleet.

In addition to its port, Dalian is a vital rail terminus that has direct access to the nation’s highway network and a major international airport with regular flights to Japan and Korea. The port of Dalian is also home to ship builders and locomotive manufacturers.

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Facilities

Dalian port has several different port areas including Daliangang, Dalianwan, Nianyuwan, Xianglujiao, Ganjinzi, Si’ergou, Heizuizi, and Dayaowan. The state-owned Dalian Port Corporation Limited owns and controls Dalian port which has the following facilities:

• Container terminals
• The Dalian Container Terminal (DCT) as one of the best container terminals in Asia has capacity to handle 2.3 million TEUs of containerized cargo per.
• The state-of-the-art Dalian Port Container Terminal Company (DPCM) Limited is a global container terminal.
• The Dalian International Container Terminal Company Limited (DICT) is located on Dayao Bay.
• The Dalian Dagang China Shipping Container Terminal Company Limited (DDCT.CS) is primary serving domestic container trade.

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Dalian’s DCT, DPCM, and DICT have a total of 13 berths with alongside depths from 9.8 to 16 meters and capacity to handle more than five million TEUs per year.

• Bulk and breakbulk terminals: Dalian port has a high-efficiency wharf for loading/unloading up to 40-ton bulk ore ships. The General Cargo Terminal in the port of Dalian is a main transshipment center for bulk cargoes in Northeast china.
• Oil/Liquid terminals: Dalian port is home to Asia’s most modern bulk liquid chemical terminals which manages crude oil, refined oil, and liquid chemicals. Terminal functions consists loading/unloading, warehousing, and distribution of products by pipeline, highway, and rail.
• Ro/Ro terminals: Dalian’s auto terminal has roll-on/roll-off capacity for almost 500 thousand vehicles per year and manages over 90% of Northeast China’s market share.
• Cruise terminals: Port of Dalian’s Ferry Terminal moves over 600 million people per year.

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Karachi Port of Pakistan

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Location

Karachi port as the capital of Pakistan’s Sindh province is on the shores of the Arabian Sea and northwest of the Indus River Delta. This port is located about 50 kilometers west of the  Muhammad Bin Qasim port and about 380 kilometers northwest of India’s  Kandla port. Karachi port is between the Karachi towns of Kiamari and Saddar, close to the main business and industrial areas.

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History

In 1840s, the Karachi port became capital of Sindh. Determining the potential importance of Karachi port as both a military base and an export port, the British developed the harbor and the town began to grow quickly.

In the latter half of the 19th century, many new buildings arose, including the Frere Hall and the Empress Market.

By 1876 when Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was born in the Port of Karachi, it became a busy city filled with mosques, churches, civic buildings, paved streets, and an impressive harbor. By 1899, the Karachi port was the largest port active in exporting cotton and wheat in the East, and the city was home to over 100 thousand people.

In 1958, the country’s capital was moved to Rawalpindi and then to Islamabad in 1960. The move began a period of decline for Karachi port in which little new development occurred.

The years of 1992 through 1994 were the bloodiest time in the Port of Karachi’s history. The Army conducted “Operation Clean-up” against the Mohajir Quami Movement that largely represented the 1947 immigrants.  But today, most of the older tensions have faded. The port of Karachi retains its position as a significant industrial and financial center in Pakistan, and it handles most of the country’s overseas commerce.

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Significance

Karachi port is the largest city and main seaport of Pakistan that is an important industrial and commercial center as well as Pakistan’s financial and commercial capital.

By handling all of Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s sea-borne trade, Karachi port is one of the busiest ports in east of the Suez Canal. It handles about 60% of the nation’s cargo commerce.

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Facilities

• Container terminals
• The Karachi International Container Terminal (KICT) is the main container terminal in Pakistan with an area of 26 hectares which operated since 1998. It has five berths equipped with the latest container-handling equipment.
• The Pakistan International Container Terminal with a total area of 21 hectares operated since 2002 and has the capacity to handle 750 thousand TEUs per year.

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• Bulk and breakbulk terminals

Berths 1 through 17 in the Karachi port are located at the East Wharf. Berths 1, 2, and 3 in the port of Karachi are dedicated to deep-draft break bulk cargo and geared containers. Berths 4 and 5 handle general and bulk cargo, cruise ships, naval vessels, and geared containers.

The Port of Karachi’s deep-draft Berths 11 and 12 specialize in general and bulk cargo and geared containers. Berth 13 in the Port of Karachi handles deep-draft vessels, bulk and general cargo, and geared containers.

Berths 18 through 30 in the port of Karachi are located at the West Wharf. Berth 18 in the Karachi port handles general, bulk, and project cargo.

Berths 19 through 21 can accommodate vessels to 160 meters with maximum draft of 9.5 meters .The port of Karachi’s Berths 22 and 23 handle general and bulk cargo. Berth 24 handles general, bulk, and project cargo. And Berth 25 handles bulk cement, break bulk, and project cargo.

• Oil / Liquid terminals:

Karachi port has three multi-purpose oil terminals including OP-1, OP-2, and OP-3.

• OP-1 specializes in handling crude oil, high-speed diesel, motor gasoline chemicals, and ethanol.
• OP-2 terminal manages chemicals, ethanol, molasses, crude oil, palm oil, high-speed diesel, and aviation fuel.
• OP-3 terminal specialized in chemicals, ethanol, molasses, crude oil, vegetable oil, naptha, low- and high-sulfur fuel oil, aviation fuel, and motor gasoline.

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• Rail connections:

On 2010 a newly-laid railway track was established in the port of Karachi to eliminate the release of coal particles and allow customers to reduce their transport costs.

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Future Improvements

The future development plan for the Karachi port includes deepening channels so that they can accommodate deep-draft vessels in all tides, developing deep-draft berths at the mouth of the harbor to develop cargo-handling services, creating a new privately-operated container terminal, revising the port tariff system, computerizing port operations and etc.

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Chennai Port of India

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Location

Chennai port, previously known as Madras port is located on India’s southern Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. It is about 565 kilometers northeast of the Cochin port and about one thousand kilometers southeast of the Mumbai port.

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History

Many South Indian dynasties like the Pallava, the Pandya, the Chola, and the Vijaynagar ruled the area around Chennai port on 1st century AD so it became an important  military, administrative, and economic area.

By the late 1700s, most of the southern India area had been conquered by the British and they created the Madras Presidency with Madras/Chennai as its capital. Therefore Chennai port flourished under British rule, becoming a vital naval base and urban center.

On 1881, a cyclone destroyed the pier and it was rebuilt in 1885. In the late 19th Century, Chennai port started to grow faster as new railways was built, connecting Chennai port to Mumbai and Kolkata.

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In World War I, Chennai port was the only city to be attacked by the Triple Alliance powers. Then between the world wars, the Chennai port gained new facilities for example in 1931 the North Quay was built in port of Chennai.

In 1947 when India won its independence, Chennai port was made the capital of the Madras State, which was renamed Tamil Nadu in 1969. Then in 1996, the city of Madras was renamed Chennai, and the Madras Port Trust was renamed as Chennai Port.

Today Chennai main industries include factories, producing vehicles, rubber, and fertilizers as well as electrical engineering and a refinery.

The key exports leaving Chennai port are iron ore, leather, and cotton textiles and the main imports entering Chennai port are wheat, raw cotton, machinery, and iron and steel.

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Significance

Chennai port which is famous as a “Gateway to South India” is the third largest container port of India, behind the Nhava Sheva and the Mundra port. It is one of the oldest and biggest commercial ports in India. Chennai port was famous for travelers but since 1639, it changed its role and became a vital maritime trade center.

So a major travel port changed to a main container trade port that was a shiny point in South India’s advancement.  This port has an important role for the improvement in South India’s booming manufacturing sector.

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Facilities

• Container terminals:
• Chennai Container Terminal (CCT) opened in 1983 is the first container terminal in Chennai port with a total area of 21.1 hectares. It has direct services to China, Europe, West Africa, and the United States. CCT wharf is 885 meters long and has four berths with alongside depth of 13.4 meters.
• Chennai International Container Terminals is the new container terminal in Chennai port with a total area of 35 hectares which is specialized in serving the automobile, textiles, pharmaceuticals, leather, light engineering, and chemical manufacturing industries. It has three berths with a total length of 832 meters with alongside depth of 15.5 meters.

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• Bulk and breakbulk terminals:

The General Cargo Terminal in the Port of Chennai has eleven berths. The Iron Ore Terminal in the Chennai port has capacity for eight million tons per year, and its loading rate is six thousand tons per hour!

• Oil / Liquid terminals:

Both Chennai oil berth are located at the Bharathi Dock with the capacity for 13 million tons per year.

• BD-I as the first oil berth can accommodate tankers to 100 thousand DWT and 280.4 meters in length.
• BD-III as the second oil berth is specialized in handling tankers to 140 thousand DWT and 280.4 meters in length.

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• Ro/Ro terminals:

Chennai port by owning India’s premier export car terminal gives services to many international car companies including Ford Motors, Nissan, Hyundai, Renault, BMW, and Daimler. Even Hyundai Motor India is establishing a dedicated automobile terminal with the total area of one hectare at Chennai port of India, being able to export 300 thousand cars per year!

• Cruise terminals:

The dedicated passenger cruise terminal in Chennai port is located on the West Quay, handling about ten international cruise vessels per year and it is one of India’s five major cruise destinations.

• Rail & intermodal connections:

Chennai port has 27.5 kilometers of port roads and it is served by the Chennai Beach railway station of the Southern Railway network.

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Kolkata Port of India

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Location

Kolkata port of India which was known as Calcutta previously is the capital of West Bengal in India. It is located some 100 nautical miles upstream from the Bay of Bengal on the Hooghly River and about 185 nautical miles northeast of  Paradip port in India’s state of Orissa.

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History

According to archeological evidences, it is more than 2000 years that people have lived in Calcutta area (previous name of Kolkata). In other words Kolkata port is the oldest major port of India.

In 1690 when the British East India Company arrived in Kolkata, the recorded history of this port was started.  Kolkata became the trade center of the British East India Company as it was both near to sea and near three local villages.

In 1717, the Mughal emperor gave the East India Company freedom of trade, stimulating improvement in Kolkata port. In 1870, the British Crown brought the port of Kolkata’s affairs under the administrative control of the government and appointed a port commission for improving the port.

In 1706, 12 thousand people lived in Kolkata port and that number increased to 120 thousand by 1752 and 180 thousand by 1821. In the 20th Century, the port of Kolkata faced many difficulties including riots for independence on 1926 and 1930, serious riots in 1946 when Muslim-Hindu tensions increased and partitioning loomed.

In 1947 the formal partitioning of Bengal between Indian and Pakistan was a negative point in the history of Kolkata port as it caused huge number of refugees from East Pakistan to Kolkata that made many problems.

In the 1980s, conditions improved in Kolkata port with large-scale public works and centralized regional planning.

And today Kolkata handles importing of 38.9 million tons including miscellaneous cargoes, coking/non coking coal, pulses/peas, liquid cargoes, vegetable oil, metallurgical coke, timber, liquefied petroleum gas, limestone, iron and steel, machinery, fertilizers, metal products, manganese ore, newsprint,  paper, and etc.

  Also it serves exporting of 18.4 million tons of iron ore, thermal coal, iron and steel, fly ash, jute and jute products, metal products, tea and etc.

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Significance

Kolkata is an important military and commercial port as well as the home to India’s second biggest stock exchange, the Calcutta Stock Exchange.

Also it is the only city in the West Bengal region that has an international airport. This major center of finance, commerce, and business has over 4.6 million residents and more than 13.2 million living in the urban area.

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Facilities

• Dock systems:

Kolkata port has two dock systems, a combination of facilities that offer a wide range of services to the customers.

• Kolkata Dock System (KDS) with a total area of 11 hectares of stacking area and a nine thousand square meter Container Freight Station includes impounded dock systems at Kidderpore and Netaji Subhas in Kolkata, petroleum wharves at Baj Baj, and anchorages at Saugor, Diamond Harbor, and Sandheads.

• Kidderpore Docks: has 18 berths, 6 buoys, and 3 dry docks
• Netaji Subhas Docks: has 10 berths, 2 buoys, and 2 dry docks
• Baj Baj River Moorings: has 6 petroleum wharves
• Anchorages: at Diamond Harbour, Saugor Road, Sandheads
• Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) that handles sea-borne trade. It has 17 berths, 14 of which are inside the impounded dock and can accommodate vessels up to 90 thousand DWT.

The Port of Kolkata has plenty transportation facilities including rail, road, and water connections linking it to all parts of India.

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Mersin Port of Turkey

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Location

Mersin International Port (MIP) is a relatively new town located on the Mediterranean Sea in southeast of Turkey. This port is about 25 kilometers southwest of Tarsus (a historic city in south-central Turkey) and about 90 nautical miles northwest of the Latakia seaport which is in Syria.

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History

There are evidences demonstrating that people inhabited in the region of Mersin port before it was built by the Roman Empire. The Romans called it Zephyrium and later renamed it to Hadrianopolis.

When Rome split into western and eastern empires, the Mersin port became part of the Byzantine Empire and as  Byzantine Empire fell, many invaders moved to Mersin port including Arabs, Egyptian Tulunids, Seljuk Turks, Mongols, Crusaders, Armenians, Mamluks, and Anatolian Beyliks. In 1473, Mersin port was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, coming under stable rule.

During the Civil War, to reduce the shortage of cotton in the Cilician region, large quantities of cotton were imported to US through the railroad which carried cotton for export to Mersin port. This issue made the Mersin port as a vital commerce center.

By the early 20th Century, the city had about 18 thousand residents including 44% Greek, 11% Roman Catholic, 1% Armenian, and about 40% Muslim.

In 1918, British and French troops occupied the Mersin port and in 1920 Turkish army liberated Mersin port. Then 0n 1923, when the Republic of Turkey was established, Mersin became a province.

In 1933, Icel province was created with the merger of the former Mersin and Icel provinces. Today Mersin port becomes a busy and modern seaport that is a key trade center in Turkey.

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Significance

Mersin port as an important modern trade center that affects positively on city’s economy is the country’s second largest port after Ambarli. It handles an annual average of 14 million tons of cargo.

It is the home of the second tallest skyscraper in Turkey and contains large luxurious hotels, expensive sea- and hillside real estate, an opera house, and many modern urban facilities.

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Facilities

Mersin port has 26 berths, a total of 3673 meters long, serving containers, general cargo, dry bulk, roll-on/roll-off cargoes, live animals, containers, petroleum products, passengers, local trade, and the free zone. This port can accommodate 30 vessels simultaneously.

The port of Mersin’s container terminal covers 251.4 thousand square meters, and it has the capacity for ten thousand TEUs. The terminal also has two container freight stations (9- and 1.3-thousand square meters) and another facility with reefer outlets for refrigerated containers.

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Ports of Europe

Amoot Iranian Company provides best sea freight services to below destinations:

• Sea freight to Albany
• Sea freight to/from Austria
• Sea freight to/from Belgium
• Sea freight to/from Czech Republic
• Sea freight to/from Denmark
• Sea freight to/from Finland
• Sea freight to/from France
• Sea freight to/from Georgia
• Sea freight to/from Germany
• Sea freight to/from Greece
• Sea freight to/from Ireland
• Sea freight to/from Italy
• Sea freight to/from Litany
• Sea freight to/from Norway
• Sea freight to/from Romania
• Sea freight to/from Russia
• Sea freight to/from Spain
• Sea freight to/from Sweden
• Sea freight to/from Turkey
• Sea freight to/from England

Amoot Iranian Company having expert agents all over the globe has made it convenient to deliver cargo at warehouse or factory and perform all the customs formalities for its customers. Our services include sea freight, air freight, road freight, ISO tank, flexi-tank, bulk cargo, retails transportation, bulk, packaging, Door to Door, Ex-work, and etc.

 

Ports of Germany

Amoot Iranian Company is capable of providing marine transportation services from Bremerhaven port, from Hamburg port and from Bremen Port. Our services include:

• Sending livestock wheat from Germany
• Sending medical supplement from Germany
• Sending machines and mechanical devices from Germany
• Sending synthetic fibers from Germany
• Sending Tractors from Germany
• Sending hot and cold rolling machines from Germany
• Sending knitting machines from Germany
• Sending Medicine from Germany
• Sending food supplement from Germany
• Sending machinery for filling, closing and sealing the bottles from Germany
• Sending machinery for carbonating drinks from Germany
• Sending vapor turbines’ parts and spare parts from Germany

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Port of Hamburg

As reported by C news port of Hamburg is Germany’s first and Europe’s third largest port. In spite of the port’s 100 km distance from North Sea, continental and oil tanker vessels anchor at port of Hamburg. The port is approximately 7,200 hectares which is equal to 10% of Hamburg’s total area.

Port of Hamburg connects 950 ports of 178 countries and has created 156,000 person/job direct and indirect job opportunities dependent on the port’s operation. 12 km of the Elbe River also belongs to the port area. Over 130 bridges connect port of Hamburg to Elbe River’s islands. About 1,700 transportation companies’ central office is located in Hamburg.

Deepening of the river Elbe for large vessels is controversial for ecological reasons. In part due to cooperation with Lower Saxony and Bremen to build a new container port (Jade Weser Port) in the deep waters of Jade Busen in Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg withdrew from this plan after a change of government in 2001.

Port of Hamburg is a major commercial hub in the area with a 50% share of import and export. China is this port’s most important business partner having more than 20% of the port’s container operations.

Hence China and its representative offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong are being supported by the marketing organization of port of Hamburg. Currently to increase the variety of services from port of Hamburg, its logistics and transportation agents have travelled to different locations of China.

Today Hamburg is a perfectly improved city north of Germany with a population of almost two million people. The city is based on its port, vessel manufacturing companies and its international trade. Therefore not far from expectations that the city’s key element is water. The Elbe River passes through the city and is divided in to two waterways flowing in brick canals amongst old warehouses which are now transformed to offices, accommodations and museums.

Hamburg lakes that are known as inside and outside Alsters have established the city center main routes and are connecting routes to residential suburbs.

 

Ports of France

Amoot Iranian Company is capable of providing marine transportation services from Marseille port, from Rouen port, from Bordeaux Port and port of Le Havre. Our services include:

• Sending dismounted car parts from France
• Sending medicine and medical supplements from France
• Sending Amino Acid Phenols and Amino Alcohol Phenol
• Sending Insulin from France
• Sending beauty, skin care and cosmetics from France

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Port of Marseille

Marseille Fos Port is the main trade seaport of France. The port’s overall traffic was reported 88 million tons in 2011 which placed it as one of the fifteen world’s largest cruise ports and fifth largest in Mediterranean.

The port has two major sites: one in northern Marseille from La Joliette to L’Estaue as well as in Fos-sur-Mer, about 50 km North West of Marseille. The port’s operation has generated 45,000 job opportunities and EUR 4 billion based on a study by OECD.

Port of Marseille is the biggest French port and fourth European port that makes it the 41^st port of the world in the year 2014 with an overall 85,997,000 MT of goods been transported.

For general cargo, port of Marseille handles all cargo types including: hydrocarbons and bulk liquid cargo (Oil, Gas and chemical products), general cargo and bulk solid cargo (minerals and cereals).

The port has warehouses in two logistic zones close to Fos terminal containers (Maisons, Ikea Mattel /Geodis, Du Monde) and industries such as Refineries, Steel Manufacturers and Chemical Industries.

Port of Marseille meets all the international standards for passenger, cruise and vessel activities. Every year over two million passengers use Port of Marseille and in less than two years it has become France’s number 1 cruise port.

Historically the local port was the Old Port of Marseille. In the 1840s, maritime traffic becomes too intense for the Old Port capacities and an extension seemed necessary. As second port of France, the issue was too important and the decision escaped the city by the law of August 5, 1844.

The government ordered the construction of the basin of la Joliette, at the north of the Old Port, through an ambitious project. The construction of the large mole used concrete blocks techniques. The Joliette infrastructures began to be used in 1847. The pool was fully completed in 1853.

The Development Council for the metropolitan area of Marseille-Provence has studied the creation of a techno-pole, or techno-port, to re-dynamise the port activities. It would include the capacity to repair ships over 270 m long, offshore wind turbines and other innovative technologies.

The transit time from Marseille, France to Bandar Abbas, Iran is 30 days, considering the duration from vessel’s departure of Port of Marseille to its anchorage in Bandar Abbas.

 

Ports of Italy

Amoot Iranian Company is capable of providing marine transportation services from ports of Ravenna, Cagliari, Livorno, La Spezia, Napoli, Palermo, Ancona, Genoa, Catania and Venice. Our services include:

• Sending machinery and Mechanical devices from Italy.
• Sending Gear box engine for elevator from Italy
• Sending machinery and devices for compression, forming or molding mineral fuel from Italy
• Sending medicine from Italy
• Sending machinery for filling, cap closing or sealing bottles from Italy
• Sending centrifugal pumps for liquids from Italy
• Sending medical supplements from Italy
• Sending casting machinery from Italy

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Port of Genoa

Port of Genoa is the main seaport of Italy and the largest Mediterranean sea port in competition with Port of Marseille and Barcelona.

With a trade volume of approximately 51.6 million MT, Genoa is the busiest port of Italy by cargo tonnage. The port was also used as a dismantling station and had been named as the port where the Costa Concordia was to be dismantled.

Port of Genova covers an area of about 700 hectares on water, being stretched for over 22 kilometers of maritime ways and 30 kilometers of operative quays.

In the Port of Genoa, there are 4 main entrances:

• The Eastern inlet, affording access to the old port, to the shipyards, and to the terminals of Sampierdarena
• The Western (Cornigliano) inlet, used mostly by ships operating at the ILVA quays
• The Multedo entrance, for ships operating in the oil terminals and to the Fincantieri shipyards
• The Pra’ entrance, at the western end of the port, for ships operating at the container terminal.

The quays of the passenger terminals extend over an area of 250 thousand square meters, with 5 equipped berths for cruise vessels and 13 for ferries, for an annual capacity of 4 million ferry passengers, 1.5 million cars and 250,000 trucks.

The historical maritime station of Ponte de Mille is now a technologically improved advanced cruise terminal, equipped with facilities designed after the world’s most modern airports, so as to ensure fast embarking and disembarking of latest generation vessels carrying thousand passengers.

A third cruise terminal is currently under construction in the redesigned area of Ponte Parodi, once a quay used for grain traffic.

In addition to the container and the passenger terminals, the shipyards and other industrial and cargo facilities, there are also several marinas, where many sailboats and yachts are moored in the port area.

• The marina of the Exhibition center (305 berths).
• The marina Duca Degli Abruzzi, home of the Yacht Club Italiano (350 berths)
• The marina Molo Vecchio, in the area of the old harbor (160 berths for yachts up to 150 meters)
• The marina Porto antico (280 berths up to 60 meters)
• The marina Genova Aeroporto (500 berths, with new facilities for super yachts)
• The marina of Pra’, in the area of the old Pra’ beach, now “Fascia di Rispetto di Pra'” (1000 berths)

The transit time from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Genoa, Italy is 32 days, considering the duration from vessel’s departure of Bandar Abbas to its anchorage in Genoa.

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Ports of Netherlands

Amoot Iranian Company is capable of providing marine transportation services from ports of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Den Helder. Our services include:

• Sending livestock corn from Netherlands
• Sending soybeans from Netherlands
• Sending medicine from Netherlands
• Sending diagnostic devices such as Endoscopy device from Netherlands
• Sending oatmeal from Netherlands
• Sending vegetable seeds
• Sending Heart Muscle Stimulator
• Sending livestock food additives from Netherlands
• Sending Tractors from Netherlands
• Sending artificial organs from Netherlands

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Port of Rotterdam

As the largest port in Europe, Port of Rotterdam is located in the City of Rotterdam, Netherlands. During years of 1962 until 2004, Port of Rotterdam was the busiest port of the World which the place was then owned by first Singapore and now by Shanghai.

In 2011, Rotterdam was the world’s eleventh-largest container port in terms of TEU handled. In 2012 Rotterdam was the world’s sixth-largest port in terms of annual cargo tonnage.

Covering 105 square kilometers, the port of Rotterdam now stretches over a distance of 40 kilometers.

It consists of the city center’s historic harbor area, including Delfshaven; the Maashaven/Rijnhaven/Feijenoord complex; the harbours around Nieuw-Mathenesse; Waalhaven; Vondelingenplaat; Eemhaven; Botlek; Europoort, situated along the Calandkanaal, Nieuwe Waterweg and Scheur (the latter two being continuations of the Nieuwe Maas); and the reclaimed Maasvlakte area, which projects into the North Sea.

Rotterdam consists of five distinct port areas and three distribution parks which facilitate the needs of a hinterland with approximately 40,000,000 consumers.

Most important for the port of Rotterdam is the petrochemical industry and general cargo transshipment handlings.

The harbor operates as an important transit point for transport of bulk and other goods between the Europe and other parts of the world. From Rotterdam goods are transported by ship, river barge, train or road. Since 2000 the Betuweroute, a fast cargo railway from Rotterdam to Germany, has been under construction.

The Dutch part of this railway was opened in 2007. Large oil refineries are located west of the city. The river Maas and Rhine also provide excellent access to the hinterland.

The EECV-quay of the port has a draft of 24 meters. This has made it one of only two available mooring locations for one of the largest bulk cargo ships in the world, the iron ore bulk carrier MS Berge Stahl when it is fully loaded, along with the Terminal of Ponta da Madeira in Brazil, until the opening of a new deep-water iron ore wharf at Caofeidian in China in 2011. The ship’s draft of 23 meters leaves only 1 meter of under keel clearance, therefore it can only dock in a restricted tidal window.

Much of the container loading and stacking in the port is handled by autonomous robotic cranes and computer controlled chariots. The ECT pioneered the development of terminal automation. At the Delta terminal, the chariots—or automated guided vehicles (AGVs)—are unmanned and each carries one container.

The chariots navigate their own way around the terminal with the help of a magnetic grid built into the terminal tarmac. Once a container is loaded onto an AGV, it is identified by infrared “eyes” and delivered to its designated place within the terminal. This terminal is also named “the ghost terminal”.

Automated Stacking Cranes (ASC) take containers to/from the AGVs and store them in the stacking yard. The newer Euromax terminal implements an evolution version of this design that eliminates the application of straddle carriers for the land-side operations.

The port is operated by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, originally a municipal body of the municipality of Rotterdam, however since 1 January 2004, a government corporation jointly owned by the municipality of Rotterdam and the Dutch State.

The port of Rotterdam and its surrounding area is susceptible to a storm surge from the North Sea. A flood protection plan with various options have been considered for protecting Rotterdam.

Finally a unique design was built, the Maeslantkering. This flood barrier consists of two huge doors which normally rest in a dock in addition to the Nieuwe Waterweg.

When a flood of 3 metres above NAP (mean sea level) is predicted the gates are floated into predicted position, such as caissons, and are sunk in place. When the water level recedes enough to open the gates, they are floated back into their docks. Another barrier, the Hartelkering, is placed in the Hartelkanaal.

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Ports of Ukraine

Port of Odessa

Port of Odessa is one of the port cities of Ukraine on the sea coast of Black sea. The port of Odessa’s population is approximately 1.1 million people and it is the fourth largest city of Ukraine. The city of Odessa is the largest coastal city of Black Sea and the capital city of Odessa province. The city has been established on the hills surrounding a small harbor.

The port has an immediate access to railways allowing quick transfer of cargo from sea routes to ground transportation. Along with its younger satellite ports of Chornomorsk (1958) and Yuzhne (1973), port of Odessa is a major freight and passenger transportation hub of Ukraine.

This port’s area is 141 hectares with 54 anchorage lines in 9000 meters capable of providing service to vessels with a maximum of 330 meters length, 40 meters of width and 13 meters high.

The operational capacities of this port provides loading capability of over 21 million MT dry cargo and 25 million MT bulk cargo annually. Container Terminals of port of Odessa facilitate moving over 900,000 TEU per year. The passenger terminal of the port can also provide service to more than 4 million tourists a year.

A wide range of commodities including oil and petrochemicals in bulk, liquid gas, iron and non-iron metals, iron ore, tea, raw sugar with no oil, cereals, packed cargos in bags, boxes, packages, jumbo bags and complex loading units are loaded in the port except for the dangerous cargos.

The tide depending on the wind force and its duration may be 0.6 to 1 meter.

Oil and Gas Terminal: The oil and gas terminal of the OMTP is the biggest one in Ukraine and sometimes is referred to as the OMTP Oil District. It has six berths with a total storage capacity of 671,000 m³.

It serves number of fuel depots such as “Eksimnaftoprodukt” (former Soviet oil export-import Company), “Odesnaftoprodukt” (state regional company), “Synthes Oil” (associate of Eksimnaftoprodukt) and a complex of “Ukrloadsystem” for uploading of liquefied gas. The oil district allows to receive tankers with load capabilities from 1,000 to 100,000 tons.

Fuel products are transferred through pipelines to reservoirs of the fuel depots. The depots have access to railways and pump capabilities of transferring fuel products to cistern railcars.

The terminal has two specialized berths for natural gas (propane-butane, piers 4 and 7) and a reservoir park located two miles away from a harbor that holds 6,000 m³. The terminal has a handling capacity of 700,000 MT of liquefied natural gas per year.

The oil and gas terminal has an annual traffic capacity of 25,500,000 MT per year:

• 15,300,000 MT of oil
• 6,200,000 MT of fuel oil
• 2,500,000 MT of diesel oil
• 800,000 MT of oil products (gasoline and vacuum gas oil)
• 700,000 MT of condensed gas.

The Oil District has a system of automatic protection (water curtain and foam supply). At the ports territorial waters are constantly on duty a fireboat and an oil-spill collector. The port has a ballast water treatment station.

Passenger Terminal: The Port of Odessa has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Black Sea basin; it handled around 4 million passengers in 2007. The terminal can simultaneously receive five motor ships at piers, totals length of which reaches 1,370 m. The depth near the piers varies from 9.5 to 11.5 m. The port facilities allow the docking of ships up to a length of 300 m.

The terminal has a car parking with 24-hour security. The complex has number of bars, a concert-exhibition hall, a marine gallery, an anchor museum, the Museum of sea fleet of Ukraine exposition, a yacht marina complex, a diving center of the local Poseidon diving club, the Saint Nicholas Church, the four star hotel “Odessa”, “Grand Europe” restaurant, and others. The port of Odessa has its own learning center. Odessa Hotel closed as of September 2016.

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Ports of South Africa

Amoot Iranian Company is capable of providing marine transportation services from/to ports of Durban, Cape Town, Elizabeth, Richards Bays and East London. Our services include:

• Transportation of Bitumen to South Africa
• Transportation of petrochemicals to South Africa
• Transportation of food to South Africa
• Transportation of polymer products to South Africa
• Transportation of honey to South Africa
• Transportation of Cement to South Africa
• Transportation of Rebar to South Africa
• Transportation of tiles and ceramics to South Africa
• Transportation of concentrate to South Africa
• Transportation of oil to South Africa
• Transportation of Dates to South Africa
• Transportation of electricity transformer to South Africa
• Transportation of all kinds of floor coverings to South Africa
• Transportation of handmade carpets to South Africa
• Transportation of pistachio to South Africa
• Transportation of industrial oil to South Africa
• Transportation of 40’ containers to South Africa
• Transportation of 20’ containers to South Africa

 

Port of Durban

Durban is the name of South Africa’s third largest city. Port of Durban is the Africa’s most important city and for its tropical climate and hot weather has been identified as one of the tourist attractions of South Africa.

About Port of Durban:

• Durban is the busiest port in South Africa and generates more than 60% of revenue.
• It is the second largest container port in Africa (after Port Said in Egypt).
• It is the fourth largest container port in Southern Hemisphere. (First is Jakarta in Indonesia, second is Surabaya in Indonesia, third is Santos in Brazil).
• The distance around the port is 21 kilometers.
• Rail tracks total 302 kilometers.
• The port has 58 berths which are operated by more than 20 terminal operators.
• Over 4,500 commercial vessels call at the port each year.

The port has recently been widened. The harbor entrance depth is now 19 meters in the approach channel decreasing to 16 meters within the harbor. The navigation width is now 220 meters.

Port Facilities: The port facilities are enough to handle regularities and includes 5 commercial units run by TPT or Transmet Port Terminal (previously known as SA port). Berths: Pier No. 1 Berth; Pier No. 2 Berth; Point and T-Jetty Berth; Cross Berth; Island View; Bluff Berth; Bayhead Berth; Maydon Wharf Berth

Car Terminal:  The car terminal opened in 1988, with a capacity of sixty thousand vehicles annually. A 100-million-rand expansion brought the number of bays to 6,500 in 2004. It includes a 380m bridge linking the terminal to the quayside, improving vessel turnaround time and improving security.

Cruise Terminal: MSC Cruises bases the MSC Sinfonia in Durban from November to April every year. From the 2018/2019 Southern Africa cruise season MSC Cruises will be basing the much larger and newer MSC Musica in Durban. Many other cruise ships pass through Durban every year, including some of the world’s biggest, such as the RMS Queen Mary 2.

The tender to build the R215 million Durban Cruise Terminal was awarded to KwaZulu Cruise Terminal (Pty) Ltd which is 70% owned by MSC Cruises SA and 30% by Africa Armada Consortium. The terminal will be able to accommodate two cruise ships at any given time.

Naval Facilities: Naval Base Durban, situated on Salisbury Island, is part of the Port of Durban. Established during the Second World War, it was downgraded to a naval station in 2002.

In 2012 a decision was made to renovate and expand the facilities back up to a full naval base to accommodate the South African Navy’s offshore patrol flotilla. In December 2015 it was redesigned with a naval base. It is the home port of three Warrior-class interim offshore patrol vessels (formerly missile-armed fast attack craft) which will be replaced by a new patrol flotilla within four to five years.

The transit time for sea freight from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Durban, South Africa is 35 days.

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Port of Abidjan

The port is a commercial port at Treichville, in southern Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It is a transshipment and intermodal facility been managed as a public industrial and commercial establishment. The port was opened in 1951 after the development of the Vridi Canal that makes it possible for deep sea vessels to use the port.

Abidjan 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 Ivory Coast economy and the greater part of the external trade of landlocked countries including Burkina Fasp, Mali, Niger, Chad and Guinea also passes through it.

It offers a variety of services, as well as refining and industrial processing facilities.

The Port of Abidjan is the most important port in West Africa and the second most important in Africa next to the Port of Durban. According to the Ivoirian Ministry of Economy and Finance, traffic through the port contributes to 90% of the customs revenues of Ivory Coast and 60% of the country’s income.

70% of Ivoirian GDP passes through the port; 65% of industrial entities in the country use it, representing a workforce of 50,000 dependent on it. 70% of the external trade of landlocked countries of Africa such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Guinea also passes through the port.

Traffic through the port reached 1,200,000 tons by 1962; in 2002 it was 16,309,596 MT; in 2013 it was 21.476 million MT, down from 21.713 million tonnes in 2012. In 2010 the traffic was 22 million MT; to return to those levels, projects to enlarge the Vridi Canal, to deepen the port, and to add a second container terminal were undertaken in the years of 2010s. The port has also become a major industrial and manufacturing center.

Abidjan is also an important fishing port, with an annual production of 400,000 MT.

Total Quay Length: 1,000 m

Berth: 11.5 m

Container Area: 30 Hectares

Max container stock capacity: 22,000 TEU

Nominal Annual Capacity: 1,300,000 TEU

Facilities

• 13 super stackers with a capacity of 45 MT
• Handling, lifting and Transport: 16 rubber tyred gantry cranes (RTG), 40 MT each
• 60 stackers with a capacity of 40 MT
• TUG masters, 45 TUG masters with a capacity of 40 MT
• 55 corner-less trailers with a capacity of 40 MT
• A 32MT lift truck, 6×16 MT lift tricks, a 15 MT lift truck, 2×12 MT lift trucks and a 4 MT lift truck

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 Port of Cotonou

The city of Cotonou is the largest city and the economic center of Benin. The official population was counted 761,137 in 2006.

However, some estimates indicate its population is far more, a number about 1.2 million. In 1960 the number was merely 70,000. The urban area continues to expand notably toward west. The city is located in the southeastern part of the country, between Lake Nokoue and Atlantic Ocean.

The city is cut in two by a canal, the lagoon of Cotonou, which was dug by the French in 1855. There are three bridges in this area. The Oueme River flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Cotonou. The city has established transportation infrastructure including air, sea, river (to Porto Novo), and land routes that facilitate trade with its neighbors Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Togo.

The erosion of the coast has noted for several decades. It worsened in 1961 following the major work undertaken in Benin with the construction of the Nangbeto Dam and deep-water port of Cotonou.

A pilot project funded by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) indicated that in 40 years, the coast to the east of Cotonou had retreated by 400 meters. This erosion has led many people to leave their homes along the coast.

One of the largest ports in West Africa is the Autonomous port of Conotou. The city is connected to Parakou in North by Benin-Niger railway. Cotonou International Airport provides service to the capitals of the region and to France, as well as the major cities of Benin: Parakou, Kandi, Natitingou, Djougou, and Savé.

There are road connections to neighboring countries: Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Togo. A prevalent mode of transport in the city is the motorcycle-taxi, Zémidjan.

In 2015 a suburban passenger railway line was being developed between Cotonou and Pahou.

Because of its status as a transport hub, Cotonou has become a crossroads of West African commerce, with much trade moving here from Abidjan because of the Ivorian Civil War.

The city is a so-called “market town,” enabling it to trade with the African countries, such as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger. In addition to the port, there is a free trade zone in the city to be used by the landlocked Saharan states. However, corruption and illegal trade is widely spread in the city, especially with neighboring Nigeria. It can be considered as the economic capital as it houses two-thirds of Benin’s industries and is the headquarters of the nation’s major enterprises and banks.

By the year 2012, the piracy in the Gulf of Guinea significantly decreased trade at the port of Cotonou. Petroleum products, bauxite, and iron are major exports. There are offshore platforms drilling for oil. The city is a center for the automotive trade, with European brands being sold from vast open-air parking lots. In the past, Citroën assembled cars locally.

Port Characteristics

• Total current wharf length: 546 m
• Draught: from – 13,5 m to -15 m
• Container yard: more than 20 ha
• Equipment : STS (Ship to shore gantries): 4 / MHC (Mobile harbor cranes): 2 / RTG (Rubber Tyred Gantries): 10 / Reach stackers : 15
• Full container storage capacity: near 20,000 TEUs
• Theoretical annual capacity: 950,000 TEUs
• Berth windows
• Terminal Operating System: Oscar
• Service Information:

• Berthing: 24/7
• Customs opening times: 8:00 a.m-12:30 p.m and 3:00 p.m -6:30 p.m

• The port includes 8 quays:
  • four 155 m quays and two 180 m quays
  • A 220 m long quay for container vessels
  • A quay for loading machines entering and leaving the port
• Cotonou has 57,000 square meters of stockyard area. It is also facilitated with a 65,000 square meter container area and a free trade zone for Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

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Ports of Liberia

Liberia is a country located in West of Africa. Its capital is the city of Monrovia. It is located in north corner of Guinea Gulf west of Africa. The country of Liberia was initially established by the freed slaves who had returned from America to Africa and is one of the oldest republics of the Africa Continent. The country became well-known in 1990s due to long interior wars and its key role in Sierra Leon war.

Liberia has a population of 3.5 million and its official language is English which is spoken all together with 29 other local African languages in the country. Christian, Islam and some other religions are common in the country. The average age of women is 42 and men is 41 in Liberia. The Liberian currency is Liberia Dollar and the major products being exported include: Diamond, Iron, rubber, coffee and cocoa.

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Economics of Liberia

Over 70% of Liberian work force is dedicated to Agriculture. Manioc and rice are produced as living products and rubber, coffee and cocoa are produced to be exported. Liberia likewise its surrounding countries is a country rich of agricultural and farm products of tropical areas such as cocoa, coffee, sugar cane, rice and banana. It is also enriched with minerals including iron ore, gold, manganese, diamond and coal.

Amoot Iranian Company having expert agents in Monrovia has made it convenient to deliver cargo at warehouse or factory and perform all the customs formalities for its customers.

Our services include sea freight, air freight, road freight, bulk cargo, retails transportation, bulk, packaging, Door to Door, Ex-work, and etc. in 20’ and 40’ containers for both dangerous (DG) and non-dangerous (non-DG) cargos.

United States of America used Liberia’s rubber resources in Firestone tire companies since World War I till end of World War II. It is also currently delivering its requirements of minerals and plant from Liberian Ports to its eastern ports.

Liberia is one of the world’s major iron ore exporters however its economy has been deteriorated due to interior war.

It has a total foreign debt of 3.7 billion dollars which major was made in Samuel Duet and Charles Tailor’s dictatorship. When Cando Lisa Rice was America’s foreign minister, she granted Liberia’s 391 million dollar debt to America. Liberia did not have any proved oil resources or any oil production until 2009.

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Port of Monrovia

The free port of Monrovia is the main commercial port in Western African nation of Liberia. It was artificially created on Bushrod Island near Monrovia in 1984. It has four piers and a main wharf with four berths. The port has also a tanker and a fishery pier.

It is operated by the National Port Authority.
As early as 1850, seagoing ships began exporting palm oil from a port at Monrovia. During World War II, American military forces landed in Liberia to ensure the flow of rubber exports for use in wartime materials. These forces improved the port facilities in Monrovia and built an artificial harbor with two breakwaters. In 1948, this new 750 acres bay opened.

The national government took over the port from an American company in 1971 and created the National Port Authority to operate the facility. A strike in 1981 crippled the port for a month before the President of Liberia dismissed the strikers. In 1990, during the First Liberian Civil War, President Samuel Doe was captured at the port by Prince Y. Johnson and later executed elsewhere.

In 1995, the M/V Mush sank after being overloaded and hindered port traffic until removed in 1998. On July 25, 2001, the M/V Torm Alexandra sunk at the port, blocking one of the berths. After years of failed efforts to remove the ship, the ship was raised and removed in a private operation financed by the United States government in May 2009. In 2002, the port authority completed dredging the harbor’s entrance to allow for second and third generation vessels to visit.

 In 2010, the Liberian government signed a $120 million concession agreement with APM Terminals, establishing a public-private partnership between the company and the National Port Authority to run the port. According to the terms of the agreement, APM Terminals will modernize the port and its staff, bringing it in line with international standards.

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Ports of Tanzania

Amoot Iranian Company provides service to Dar es Salam and Tanga ports. Our services include:

• Transporting bitumen to Tanzania
• Transporting petrochemical products to Tanzania
• Transporting food to Tanzania
• Transporting polymer products to Tanzania
• Transporting Honey to Tanzania
• Transporting building construction materials to Tanzania
• Transporting cement to Tanzania
• Transporting rebar to Tanzania
• Transporting tile and ceramics to Tanzania
• Transporting concentrate to Tanzania
• Transporting oil to Tanzania
• Transporting dates to Tanzania
• Transporting electric transformer to Tanzania
• Transporting floor covering to Tanzania
• Transporting handmade carpets to Tanzania
• Transporting pistachio to Tanzania
• Transporting industrial oil to Tanzania
• Transporting sweet powder and essence to Tanzania
• Transporting 40’ container to Tanzania
• Transporting 20’ container to Tanzania

Our transportation services include sea freight, air freight, road freight, ex-work, door to door and etc.

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Port of Dar es Salaam

Until 1974, Dar es Salaam served as Tanzania’s capital city, at which point the capital city commenced transferring to Dodoma, which was officially accomplished in 1996. However, as of 2018, it continues to remain a focus of central government bureaucracy, although this is in the process of fully moving to Dodoma. In addition, it is Tanzania’s most prominent city in arts, fashion, media, music, film and television and a leading financial center. The city is the leading arrival and departure point for most tourists who visit Tanzania, including the national parks for safaris and the islands of Unguja and Pemba. Dar es Salaam is also the largest and most populous Swahili-speaking city in the world.

Port of Dar es Salam is Tanzania’s main port on a natural harbor on the Indian Ocean, is one of the hubs of the Tanzanian transportation system as the main railways and several highways originate in or near the city to serve convenient means of transportation for commuters. The port is one of three ocean ports in the country and handles over 90% of the country’s cargo traffic.

According to the International Association of Ports and Harbors, it is the fourth largest port on the African continent’s Ocean coastline after Durban, Mombasa and Maputo. The port acts as a gateway for commerce and trade for Tanzania and numerous bordering landlocked states. For years the inefficiencies at the port has cost the regional economy millions of dollars; in 2012 the total global welfare loss caused by the inefficiencies of the port stood at US$1.8 billion for the Tanzanian economy and 830 million US dollars for the neighboring countries.

The port has faced increased criticism of inefficiencies and corruption and has seen increased international pressure due to 2 reasons. The inefficiencies has increased the cost of business in the region and has provided the government a chance to implement various expansions and outsourcing projects for the day-to-day running of the port.

• Due to the port’s geography, it provides economic backbone for 4 out of 5 land locked countries bordering Tanzania.
• Rise in cost

A number of 35% of the cargo being moved from the port is owned by foreigners. Hence to increase efficiency and reduce cost, the foreign cargo centers help countries to process cargo from their respective countries.

Port of Dar es Salaam with a rated capacity of 4.1 million dry cargo and 6.0 million bulk liquid cargo. The Port has a total quay length of about 2,600 meters with eleven deep-water berths. Dar es Salaam port handles about 95% of the Tanzania international trade.

The port serves the landlocked countries of Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. The port is strategically placed to serve as a convenient freight linkage not only to and from East and Central Africa countries but also to middle and Far East, Europe, Australia and America.

Port Facilities

Facilities available to support operations of Dar es salaam port are:

• General cargo Berth (1-7) from break bulk, PORO and dry bulk.
• Container Terminal Berths (Berth 8-11), leased to Tanzania
• International Container Terminal services Ltd (TICTS).
• Grain Terminal facility (silos with storage capacity of 30,000 tons).
• Inland Container Deposits (ICDs) facilities with the capacity of (14,500 TEUs) and CFs with the capacity of holding 6,000 vehicles at once).
• A 150,000 MT Single Point Mooring (SPM) – for handling refined and crude oil.
• Kurasini oil Jetty (KOJ) for handling refined products (tanker size 45,000MT for KOJ1 and 5,000 tons for KOJ2).

Generally, the intrinsic capacity of the port of Dar es salaam is to handle more than 10 million tons of cargo as follows:

• General cargo 3.1 million tons.
• Container 9,619,876 TEUs) 1.0 million tonnes; and
• Liquid bulk 6.0 million tons.

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Port Features

With the quay length of 2,600 meters, it is divided into:

• General Cargo Terminal

This is a break-bulk section of a port with a quay of 1,478 meters comprising of 7 main quays, transit sheds with 64,463.5 of total floor sq. meters and open storage of 201,613.

• Container Terminal

This terminal is operated by a private company, the Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS). TICTS manage the container handling activities at berth Number 8-11. The terminal has a total quay length of 540 meters. Back up facilities of container terminal includes the container depot located about 2 kilometers away at kurasini (KICD) and Ubungo container Depot.

• Grain Terminal

Dar es salaam Port has fully automated grain handling facility with silos with the capacity of 30,000 metric tons. Grains can be discharged and bagged along the quay at an average of more than 2000 tons in 24 hours, or transferred to silo using dump trucks. The grain terminal has concrete silos, fumigation, aeration and temperature control facilities.

• Oil Terminal

There are two oil terminal, the single point Mooring (SPM) and Kurasini Oil Jetty (KOJ). The SPM is an offshore tanker berth for handling exclusively crude and refined oil. It has capacity to accommodate tankers of up to 150,000 deadweight tons with fast discharge speed (flow rate of 2,500 cubic meters per hour for crude oil). SPM is connected to refineries in Dar es salaam and Ndola, Zambia through floating hoses and submarines pipes. KOJ is the tanker jetty for handling refined oil products with pumping capacity of 750 tons per hour. It can handle tankers up to 45,000 deadweights.

• Storage Areas

The port provides both open and covered storage; it has silos for grains at any time of need and maintains storage yards for containers, motors vehicles and general cargo.

• Marine crafts/navigation Aids

The port is served with berthing tugs, pilot boats, mooring boats and surveillance / patrol boat, water barge, and floating cranes. Moreover, there are navigation aids to facilitate movement of vessels in the port. These include; buoys, beacons, leading marks and light house.

• Container Handling Equipment

Port terminals operates with Panamax Ship to Shore Gantry cranes (SSGs), Rubber Tyred Gantry cranes (RTGs) and Rail Mounted Gentry Crane (RMG), Gottwalds, highway trucks , folk lift trucks, Highway trailers, Terminal tractors and Trailers.

• General Cargo Handling Equipment.

The major equipment for handling general cargo are portal cranes, forklifts, tractors, trailers, grabs, hoppers, Bigging units, dump trucks, weighbridges, and conveyor belts

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Port of Mombasa

Port of Mombasa is the key seaport of Kenya, on the coast of Indian Ocean. It is also Kenya’s oldest and second largest city (after Nairobi, the capital of Kenya). In 2017, its estimated population was 1.5 million people. Mombasa’s metropolitan region is the second largest in the country and has a population of approximately 3 million people.

Mombasa is a regional cultural and economic hub; it has an extra-large port and an international airport, hence it is an important regional tourism center. Located on the east coast of Kenya, it also is the home of one of the State House (Kenya), and is considered by some as a second capital in all aspects but name. Mombasa’s situation on the Indian Ocean made it a historical trading center, and it has been controlled by many countries because of its strategic location.

The town of Mombasa is centered on Mombasa Island, but extends to the mainland. The island is separated from the mainland by two creeks, Port Reitz in the south and Tudor Creek in the north.

Mombasa is a major trade center and home to Kenya’s only large seaport, the Kilindini Harbor. Kilindini is an old Swahili term meaning “deep”. The port is so-called because the channel is naturally very deep. Kilindini Harbor is an example of a natural geographic phenomenon called a ria, formed at the end of the last glacial period when the sea level rose and engulfed a river that was flowing from the mainland.

Mombasa’s northern shoreline is renowned for its vibrant 24-hour entertainment offers, including both family entertainment (water parks, cinemas, bowling, etc.), sports (watersports, mountain biking and go karting), culinary offers (restaurants offering a wide range of specialties from Kenya, China, Japan, India, Italy, Germany and other countries) and nightlife (bars, pubs, clubs, discothèques, etc.).

Other local industries include an oil refinery with a capacity of 80,000 barrels a day, and a cement factory capable of producing over 1.1 million MT per year. The major intercontinental undersea telecom cables reach shore next to Mombasa, connecting the African Great Lakes to the rest of the world and supporting a fast-growing call center business in the area. The estimated real GDP growth for Kenya in 2016 is 5.7-6.0%. This growth will be in response to the construction of a railway system from Nairobi to Mombasa which will aid in trade and transportation between Kenya’s two major cities.

Mombasa will become a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in which certain industries such as tea, garments, and footwear will be exempt from certain taxes to promote domestic growth. This is in response to the deficiencies in Export Processing Zones (EPZ). The Kenyan Dock Workers’ Union is situated in Mombasa and has roughly 5,000 members.

President Kenyatta has made it a priority to deepen economic ties with Asia at the onset of his presidency. Japan has played a significant role in financially sponsoring the expansion of the Mombasa port in phase one and two of the expansion project. At 44%, the rate of youth unemployment in Mombasa is more than double the national average of 21% (2016).

Mombasa’s port is the largest in East Africa, with 19 deep water berths with two additional berths nearing completion and two oil terminals. Rail connects the port to the interior. There is little or no scheduled passenger service.

Ports of Nigeria

Nigeria is a country with 141,859,731 people and a population growth rate of 4.2%. Its other major cities are Lagos, Kano and Ibadan.

Amoot Iranian Company provides service to Onne port. Our services include:

• Transporting bitumen to Nigeria
• Transporting petrochemical products to Nigeria
• Transporting food to Nigeria
• Transporting polymer products to Nigeria
• Transporting Honey to Nigeria
• Transporting building construction materials to Nigeria
• Transporting cement to Nigeria
• Transporting rebar to Nigeria
• Transporting tile and ceramics to Nigeria
• Transporting concentrate to Nigeria
• Transporting dates to Nigeria
• Transporting electric transformer to Nigeria
• Transporting floor covering to Nigeria
• Transporting handmade carpets to Nigeria
• Transporting pistachio to Nigeria
• Transporting industrial oil to Nigeria
• Transporting sweet powder and essence to Nigeria
• Transporting 40’ container to Nigeria
• Transporting 20’ container to Nigeria

Our transportation services include sea freight, air freight, road freight, ex-work, door to door and etc.

Port of Onne

Onne is one of the two main ports in Nigeria with a strategic location due to its world’s largest oil and gas free zone. 65% of the export cargos are shipped through this port. It is located along Ogu Creek of Bonny River. There are multiple operations that are carried out in the Port in addition to the Oil and Gas operations. Some of such multiple operations are General Cargoes, Bulk Cargoes (Dry & Wet), Oil Well Equipment, Containerized Cargoes and other Logistics Services provided to companies that are customers and tenants. Hence the Port is a multi-purpose Cargo Port.

The Port is highly industrialized with modern facilities and equipment that can stand the test of time. There is also adequate land available for development to all customers and prospective investors who desire to partner with the Port in the Maritime Business. The Port covers an area of 2,538.115 hectares.

Onne Port has one of the biggest harbor mobile cranes in Africa (Liebherr 600) with a lifting capacity of 208 metric tons and 220 Gmk5220 grove twin cranes that has capacity of lifting single heavy cargo of 300 tons owned by one of the Terminal Operators in the Port. Also, safe and comfortable hospitality facilities are available for Oil & Gas clientele at the Free Zone / Port Area.

The Port is on security grade one creating a safe, secure and customer friendly environment for everyone doing business here.

Port of Onne is facilitated with several quays for cargo vessels up to sixty thousand gt. It is also the main base for the offshore activity in the region and a large number of supply-vessels are called at Onne weekly. There is a section of the port called OOGFZ which stands for Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone and contains several quays to cater to offshore supply vessels and a shipyard. OOGFZ also contains one of the largest bases of Shell offshore in Africa including berths leased out to Exxon Mobil, Total S.A. and other major oil companies.

The port consists of three regions located adjacent to the Niger delta – Federal lighter terminal, Onne port complex and Federal ocean limited (which consists of facilities for offshore oil and gas supply vessels).

There are stores and freshwater available as well as fuel and minor repairs. Onne has also a container terminal with a draft of 12 meters deep which is frequented by vessels of up to 4,000 TEU in size owned by MAERSK lines, PIL and CMA CGM.

The city is administered as part of the Odido Clan in the Eleme Local Government Area of Nigeria. Onne has four clans, Agbeta, Alejor, Ekara and Ogoloma. It has a small hospital which is usually used by oil companies. The nearest airport is at Port Harcourt.

Other facilities of the port include: a quay of 570 meters long, 165,000 square meters area for container storage and 6 reach stackers.

Ports of Senegal

Amoot Iranian Company provides service to ports of Dakar, Kaolack, Lyndiane and M’Bao Oil Terminal. Our services include:

• Transporting food to Nigeria
• Transporting polymer products to Nigeria
• Transporting Honey to Nigeria
• Transporting building construction materials to Nigeria
• Transporting cement to Nigeria
• Transporting tile and ceramics to Nigeria
• Transporting concentrate to Nigeria
• Transporting dates to Nigeria
• Transporting electric transformer to Nigeria
• Transporting floor covering to Nigeria
• Transporting handmade carpets to Nigeria
• Transporting pistachio to Nigeria
• Transporting industrial oil to Nigeria
• Transporting sweet powder and essence to Nigeria
• Transporting 40’ container to Nigeria
• Transporting 20’ container to Nigeria

 

Port of Dakar

The Autonomous Port of Dakar is a Senegalese public enterprise located in the east of city of Dakar. Due to its strategic position which provides it with a sheltered harbor, Port of Dakar is the third largest port in West Africa next to Autonomous port of Abidjan and Port of Lagos. Globally, it is the ninth largest port of African continent.

Its current infrastructure includes tanker vessel loading and unloading terminals, a container terminal with a storage capacity of 3000×20’ equivalent units, a cereals and fishing port, a dedicated phosphate terminal and a privately administered ship maintenance facility. The port’s location at the extreme western point of Africa, at the crossroad of the major sea-lanes linking Europe to South America, makes it a natural port of call for shipping companies.

Total freight traffic averages 10 million MT. In 2006, the port’s shipping traffic carried 9.9 million MT of goods.

Technical Specifications of Darak Terminal

Total current wharf length: 645m

Draught: from -8.5m to -10m

Container yard: 8 hectares

Equipment: 5 Reach Stackers / 12 Terbergs / Forklift 42T, 12T, 7T, 4T

Terminal Operating System: IPAKI

Container storage capacity: 2,000 TEUs

Theoretical annual capacity: 72,937 TEUs / 66,140 vehicles / 77,948 MT of conventional

Service Information

Continuous loading and unloading: 24 h/24, 365 days per year

Berthing: 24/7

Port of Djibouti

The republic of Djibouti is a country located in horn of Africa with a population of 400,000 people and an area of 24,000 square meters in east of Africa. According to statistics done in 2009, it is one of the smallest and least populated African countries. Djibouti’s easy access to international waters on one hand and its road access to central African countries, on the other hand, has increased its strategic importance.

The country’s soil is not suitable for farming and agricultural activities hence less than 5% of the country’s area are natural pastures. The main export goods of the country include camel meat, ship meat, fruit and vegetables. However it is extensively poor in mineral resources and does not have any valuable ores.

In 2002, the GDP of Djibouti reached USD 586 million with a growth of 0.1% whereas the average was about 1.3% during 1990-1998. Djibouti is a relatively poor country and its national per capita income mostly reached USD 1,400. On the other hand, more than 50% of the Djibouti’s population live under the poverty line and the high unemployment rate (40-50%) is the country’s prominent economic issue.

Djibouti sources part of its budget by receiving commute tax from vessels and oil tankers passing Bab al Mandab.

The port is in Djibouti city, capital of Djibouti. Its strategic position makes it one of the busiest ship routes all over the world. It links Europe, Far East, The Horn of Africa and the Persian Gulf. Hence it is also a key refueling and transshipment center. In its neighborhood is located Ethiopia which conducts its import and export with Djibouti as a maritime outlet.

An approximately 70% of the cargo at the port is shipped to/from Ethiopia which accounts for 95% of the total Ethiopian foreign Trade. In the past the port had railway access to Ethiopia via Ethio-Djibouti Railway which now has been abandoned. In 2017, a nearby port called Doraleh was connected via Addis Ababa –Djibouti Railway.

The port’s strategic location on the Gulf of Aden makes it an important military outpost for the Great Powers. Several berths at the port are reserved for the use of the United States Navy and the French Navy. The Chinese Navy also uses the Port of Djibouti, but it is now moving to a dedicated facility at the nearby Port of Doraleh.

In September 2013, construction began on the Damerjog livestock port and the Doraleh multipurpose port. The Port of Doraleh will relieve congestion at the original Port of Djibouti, adding 29 million tons of annual capacity.

The Container Terminal commissioned in 1985, with a total surface of 22 Hectares of yard in a fully enclosed facility. Accessible by rail and road from various locations including Ethiopia, its aim of multipurpose facility may be discovered.

The Port of Djibouti Container Terminal has a handling capacity of 350 000 TEU Per annum. Reefer containers can be easily accommodated by 126 reefer plug points available in the yard and vessels of capacity up to 8000 TEU can be operated along the two berths of 400 meters.

Berth Characteristics and Equipment

• Berth l (180m) with a depth of 9.5m
• Berth 2 (220m) offering a depth of 12m.
• RORO berth set for the operation of RORO vessels.
• Four ships to shore cranes available with a lifting capacity of 50 MT and an outreach of 40 meters.
• Fully equipped and facilitated with modern handling machineries (Reach stacker, Forklifts, trucks and trailers etc…)

Ports of America

Port of Long Beach

Every year, port of Long Beach provides service to over 6.8 million TEU. Total value of the shipped containers is about USD 180 billion with a total volume of 82.3 million MT cargo through anchorage of 2,000 vessels.

Major cargos exported from Long Beach, USA include: crude oil, electronics, plastics, furniture and clothing.

Major cargos imported to Long Beach, USA include: Pet coke, bulk oil, chemicals, waste paper, and food.

The port consists of:

• 3,000 hectares land
• 4,600 hectares water
• 10 bases
• 62 quays
• Terminals
• 5 bulk areas (cars, wood, steel, iron ore)
• 6 bulk areas (pet coke, salt, building plaster, cement)
• 6 container areas
• 5 bulk cargo areas (oil)

International Ranking

Long Beach is United States’ second busiest and world’s 20^th twenty feet container high traffic. Combining Long Beach port and Los Angeles port amongst the 10 world’s busiest ports regarding container volume, they are placed after Shanghai, Singapore, Shenzhen (in China), Ningbo (China, Hong Kong), Bussan (South Korea), Qingdao (China), Guangzhou (China) and Dubai (UAE).

Regional Economic Effects

The United States of America has a total annual income of over 5 billion dollars from Long Beach/L.A. An approximately 4.9 billion per year comes from local tax, state tax and the federal which is collected through Long Beach port business. The port has an annual direct and indirect sales of over 47 billion dollars. And about 14.5 billion dollars is the wage for this business in the port.

The total number of loaded containers in this port includes:

• 1/3 shipped from all California ports
• 1/4 shipped from all west coast ports
• About 1/5 shipped from all U.S ports

Business Partners

Over 90% of Asia’s eastern commerce is conducted through this port. The prominent business partners with high volume of cargo include: China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Iraq, Australia, Ecuador and Indonesia.

Ports of Canada

Today there are many customers for shipping and export of a great range of goods to Canada including: Furniture, Handicrafts, fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, dried fruit and nuts, saffron, commercial cargo, restaurant equipment, carpet, furnace, porcelain, home appliances, medical herbs, pickles and etc.

Amoot Iranian Company having expert agents all over the globe has made it convenient to deliver cargo at warehouse or factory and perform all the customs formalities for its customers. Our services include sea freight, air freight, road freight, ISO tank, flexi-tank, bulk cargo, retails transportation, bulk, packaging, Door to Door, Ex-work, and etc.

 

Port Metro Vancouver

The Port of Vancouver was the name of the largest port in Canada, the largest in the Pacific Northwest, and the largest port on the West Coast of North America by metric tons of total cargo, with 76.5 million MT. The port amalgamated with the Fraser River Port Authority and the North Fraser Port Authority in 2008 to form Port Metro Vancouver.

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is responsible for overseeing the port of Vancouver. It is a non-shareholder and financially self-sufficient corporation established by the Government of Canada since January 2008. It is the principal authority for shipping, port related land and sea use in the Metro Vancouver region. In 2014, it was the 4^th largest port by tonnage among the America’s ports, 29^th in the world regarding total cargo and the 44^th in terms of container traffic.

The port offers 28 deep-sea and domestic marine terminals that service five business sectors: automobiles, break-bulk, bulk, containers and cruise.

• The annual container volume of the port is 3.0 million TEU
• The port area is: 350 km of coastline, 1,000 hectares of land and 16,000 hectares of water
• The annual cargo tonnage of the port is 138 million MT
• The annual cargo tonnage of the port is over USD 200 billion CAD

Port of Toronto

Port of Toronto is one of the largest local Canadian ports located in North West of Lake Ontario. It is a few-minutes-drive from Toronto city center and has been serving Saint Laurence and other global ports since 1973. It was formerly known as Toronto Port Authority, responsible for management of the harbor of Toronto, Ontario.

Toronto Harbor

Toronto Harbor is roughly 3.2 kilometers by 1.6 kilometers and is sheltered by a string of offshore islands. Ports Toronto operates a 20-hectare paved facility consisting of Marine Terminal 51 and Warehouse 52 on the east side of the harbor. There are 3 miles of deep-water wharfage for the loading and unloading of bulk products. Marine terminals include inside and outside storage, and some 560 m² of berthing space for ships carrying general cargo.

The lands of the Port of Toronto were significantly larger before. The Port Lands surrounding the facility was created by infilling the delta of the Don River by the Toronto Harbor Commission in the 1910s, and were owned and controlled by the Harbor Commission until 1990s, when they were transferred to the City of Toronto. The lands are expected to be redeveloped into a new neighborhood, by the Waterfront Toronto partnership. The north-east corner of the harbor, formerly housing marine terminals, is being redeveloped into the East Bay front residential neighborhood. The Don River mouth is planned to be re-naturalized.

At one time, the entire inner harbor waterfront was used as a transfer station for cargo, with rail lines connected directly to the wharfs. Changes in mode of transport and relocation of factories has made the port a place to transfer a relatively small amount of cargo today and be not a significant cargo port. The tonnage of cargo passing through the port is made up mostly of sugar to the Redpath refinery and aggregate materials such as sand, gravel and salt. In 2015, the port delivered 1.7 million MT of cargo, 36th-largest in Canada. By comparison, Colborne, Ontario shipped 1.671 million MT while Hamilton handled 13.66 million MT when Total tonnage handled in Canadian ports was 466.148 billion MT.

Other facilities operated by Ports Toronto include:

• Outer Harbor Marina is located on the Leslie Street Spit in a protected channel with access to Lake Ontario and Toronto’s Inner Harbor with 636 slips.
• Ports Toronto also offers services such as harbor maintenance, engineering services, lake-filling, shoreline protection, facility maintenance, marine services (power, water and dry dock facilities for ships), special cargo handling, dredging, topographic and hydrographic surveys, port security and many others.
• The management offices are located in the Toronto Harbor Commission Building, located in downtown Toronto, just south of the Air Canada Centre.

Port of Montreal

Being located in the Quebec Province it is the nearest destination to a direct route from Europe and Mediterranean to North of America. Port of Montreal is also a transshipment point on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On the Saint Lawrence Seaway 1,600 kilometers inland from the Atlantic Ocean, it is on the shortest direct route from Europe and the Mediterranean to North America. It is an international container port that services Toronto and the rest of Central Canada, the U.S. Midwest, and the U.S. Northeast.

In 2012 more than 2,000 cargo ships visited with the port handling 28,422,003 MT of consumer goods, machinery, cereal, sugar, petroleum products, and other types of cargo. Montreal also welcomes cruise ships. The port is operated by the Montreal Port Authority.

Port of Montreal includes terminals for Containers, Grains, Dry Bulk, Liquid Bulk, and Cruise.

• Container: Container ships are completely unloaded and loaded. Container shipping lines calling the port include CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company and OOCL.

The port has three international container terminals. Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership operates two of the terminals and Termont Montreal Inc. operates the other. Empire Stevedoring Co. Ltd. operates a terminal that handles domestic containers. These facilities cover an area of approximately 90 hectares (36 acres) and have 15 dockside gantry cranes with lifting capacities ranging from 40 to 65 MT, yard gantry cranes and other container-handling equipment.

• Grain: The port signed an agreement in 2011 with Viterra Inc., to lease and operate the port’s grain terminal. Total grain traffic through the port increased by 76.3% to 3,070,054 MT in 2012, the first full year of operation of the grain terminal under Viterra. The grain terminal is a combined loading and unloading facility that has a total storage capacity of 260,000 MT.
• Dry bulk (other than grain): Iron ore, salt, fertilizers, copper ore, raw sugar and gypsum are among the major commodities handled. Logistec Stevedoring Inc. operates the port’s dry bulk facilities.
• Liquid bulk: Six petroleum companies: Canterm Canadian Terminals Inc., Shell Canada Products, Suncor Energy, Terminal Montréal Est, Terminal Norcan Inc. and Ultramar Ltd. handle petroleum products at port facilities. Two companies Vopak Terminals Canada Inc. and Lallemand Inc. move other liquid bulk products.
• Cruise: The Montreal Port Authority operates the port’s Iberville Passenger Terminal. It welcomed 85,808 passengers and crew members in 2016.

The transit time for sea freight from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Montreal, Canada is about 40 days.

Ports of Australia

Amoot Iranian Company provides sea freight services to ports od Sydney, Melbourne, Fremantle and Brisbane.

Amoot Iranian Company’s services to Australia include:

• Sea freight to Australia
• Transporting furniture to Australia
• Transporting food to Australia
• Transporting Saffron to Australia
• Transporting Dates to Australia
• Transporting Petrochemical products to Australia
• Transporting floor coverings to Australia
• Transporting textile to Australia
• Transporting Marble to Australia
• Transporting Pistachio to Australia
• Transporting Vegetables to Australia
• Transporting packed saffron to Australia
• Transporting pickles and pickled cucumber to Australia
• Transporting fig to Australia
• Air Freight to Australia

Our services consist of sea freight, air freight, road freight, ISO tank, flexi-tank, bulk cargo, retails transportation, bulk, packaging, Door to Door, Ex-work, and etc.

Port of Botany, Sydney

The port of Botany is a suburb in south east of Sydney. Port Botany is located on the northern shore of Botany Bay, adjacent to the suburbs of Phillip Bay, Banksmeadow and Matraville.

Port Botany is a deep water seaport dominated by trade in containerized manufactured products and after that bulk liquid imports including petroleum and natural gas. It is one of the largest Australia container ports.

The third container terminal at Port Botany was completed in June 2011. The A$515 million projects included the reclamation of 63 hectares of land with the construction of 1.85 kilometers of shipping wharves which will berth five vessels. In addition, there was associated rail and road networks. Baulderstone and Jan De Nul Joint Venture partners were awarded the Australian Construction Achievement Award, Australian construction industry’s most prestigious award, for their work on the project. In December 2009, Hutchison Whampoa invested in Terminal 3 through subsidiary Hutchison Port Holdings signed a 30-year lease with Sydney Ports Corporation, now transferred to NSW Ports. The terminal is expected to be operational during 2013.

The commercial area: Port Botany is a major commercial area that is serviced by road and rail networks, together with Sydney’s nearby international and domestic airports. The two Container Terminal facilities are complemented by a bulk liquid facility and an adjacent bulk liquid storage and distribution complex.

Bulk Liquids: The bulk liquid terminal was first established in 1979 as a facility for importing natural gas, oil, petroleum and chemicals. The terminal and storage was expanded progressively during 1980s with new ethylene tanks and handling plant operated by ICI, and AGL storage caverns being added in 1994 and 2000.the bulk liquid terminal is capable of accommodating ships of about 230 meters in length and 90,000 MT capacity.

Containers: in 1979, the northernmost terminal for containers was completed. The southern container terminal opened in 1982, christened Brotherson Dock Two and leased to the newly formed stevedore company Container Terminals Australia (CTAL). Despite both terminals being of equal size and quay length, Brotherson Dock Two struggled to compete with its northern neighbour. In its first full year of operation, Brotherson Two handled just 91,000 containers with a berth occupancy rate of 40 percent.

Container import to port of Sydney, Australia includes over 220,000 TEU of transportation machineries and facilities, over 215.3 TEU of manufactured products and 131.4 TEU of products related to chemicals. Other importing commodities include non-metal minerals, textile, pulp, paper and cardboard, food, iron and steel, beverages and tobacco, wood and cork.

Container export from Australia includes app. 50,000 TEU chemicals, 45,400 TEU cereals, 41,900 TEU transportation facilities, 34,100 TEU of other manufactures products, 30,200 TEU non-iron metals, 27,500 TEU paper and paste, 18,500 TEU of wood and cork, 18,500 TEU of iron and steel, and 12,100 TEU of meat.

Port of Fremantle

Fremantle Harbor is the largest and busiest general cargo port of Western Ausralia. It is also a historical site. A large volume of sea containers, vehicle imports and livestock exports, cruise shipping and naval visits are handled by the inner harbor which operates 24/7. It is situated adjacent to the city of Fremantle, Perth.

It consists of two parts, the inner harbor and the outer one. The inner harbor is situated on the mouth of Swan River and the outer is 20 km south at the Kwinana which handles bulk cargo ports, grain, petroleum, LPG, alumina, mineral sands, fertilizers, sulfur and other bulk commodities. The inner harbor also includes northern and southern wharves. All this area in administered by a government trading enterprise called Fremantle Port Authority.

The railway from the harbor was constructed in the 1880s, and continued to be developed with railway workshops (later moved to Midland Junction), railway sheds, railway marshalling yards, locomotive depots, and in 1907 Fremantle railway station was opened.

Ports of New Zealand

Amoot Iranian Company provides sea freight services to ports of Auckland.

Amoot Iranian Company’s services to New Zealand include:

• Sea freight to New Zealand
• Transporting furniture to New Zealand
• Transporting food to New Zealand
• Transporting Saffron to New Zealand
• Transporting Dates to New Zealand
• Transporting Petrochemical products to New Zealand
• Transporting floor coverings to New Zealand
• Transporting textile to New Zealand
• Transporting Marble to New Zealand
• Transporting Pistachio to New Zealand
• Transporting Vegetables to New Zealand
• Transporting packed saffron to New Zealand
• Transporting pickles and pickled cucumber to New Zealand
• Transporting fig to New Zealand
• Air Freight to New Zealand

Our services consist of sea freight, air freight, road freight, ISO tank, flexi-tank, bulk cargo, retails transportation, bulk, packaging, Door to Door, Ex-work, and etc.

Ports of Auckland

Auckland has two commercial ports (except the passing vessels’ terminal), an international container port and a regional port in Onehunga. There is also a local port (Reshipment terminals, without direct access to the sea) located in southern Auckland, in this facilities, the Auckland Ports Enterprise have employed about 550 staff to provide 24/7 service for port operation.

Auckland ports with about 176 years of background play a vital role in New Zealand economics. It is the main center of New Zealand import and the country’s largest and most populated city that handles over 1 million containers per year. Auckland Ports are 100% owned by Auckland Investment Council and the income is served to develop the city.

Auckland wharves (from west to east) are:

• Wynyard Wharf (also known as ‘Tank Farm’ or ‘Western Reclamation’, west of Viaduct Basin and mostly used for chemicals and liquids storage. It is to be turned into a mixed-use development and a park within the next decades). This land is now owned and administered by Panuku Development Auckland, the council’s CCO.
• Princes Wharf (residential development and cruise ship terminal). An easement around the edge wharf provides for emergency services and ship berthing (such as when cruise ships visit)
• Queens Wharf (proposed additional cruise ship terminal).[3] This land is also now owned and administered by Panuku Development Auckland.
• Captain Cook Wharf
• Marsden Wharf
• Bledisloe Wharf (on which Stadium New Zealand in 2006 was proposed to be built)
• Jellicoe Wharf
• Freyberg Wharf
• Fergusson Wharf (a very large container trade reclamation from the 1960s)

POAL bought three new large container cranes in 2006 from Chinese firm Zhenhua Port Machinery Co. for NZ$27 million, now installed at the Axis Intermodal Terminal at Fergusson wharf, where they join two older cranes bought in 2001. The new cranes are the largest in New Zealand, weighing 1,250 MT each. Standing 103 m high with a 56 m boom length, they are capable of lifting two 20’ containers at once, with speeds of up to 150 m per minute. They were bought to provide the necessary lifting capacity and reach for Post-Panamax ships. Their generators can provide emergency power to refrigerated containers in case of power failure. The port has also upgraded most of the straddle carrier fleet to the most modern version Noell Straddles, with diesel-electric power.