Syllabus of the Subject: Maritime Transport in Africa. African Ports.
1- Introduction to the Maritime Transport in Africa
- Revised African Maritime Transport Charter;
- Durban Resolution on Maritime Safety, Maritime Security and Protection of the Marine Environment in Africa.
2- Largest African Ports.
3- Maghrebian Ports.
- Port of Casablanca (Morocco);
- Tunisian Ports;
- Port of Algiers and Port of Oran (Algeria).
4- Egyptian ports.
- Port Said and Port of Alexandria;
- Suez Canal.
5- West African Ports.
- Port of Abidjan (Ivory Coast);
- Ports of Tema and Takoradi (Ghana);
- Port of Lagos (Nigeria);
- Port of Dakar (Senegal);
- Port of Lomé (Togo);
- Port of Cotonou (Benin);
- Maritime Organization for West and Central Africa (MOWCA).
5- Central African Ports.
- Port of Luanda and Port of Lobito (Angola);
- Port of Douala (Cameroon);
- Port of Pointe Noire (Congo);
- Ports of Gabon: Port of Libreville and Port Gentil;
- Ports of Equatorial Guinea: Malabo, Bata, and Luba Freeport;
- Maritime Organization for West and Central Africa.
6- East African Ports.
- Ports of Beira, Nacala and Maputo (Mozambique);
- Port of Djibouti;
- Port of Mombasa (Kenya);
- Port Sudan (Sudan);
- Port of Dar es-Salaam (Tanzania);
- Ports of Madagascar.
7- Southern African Ports.
- Port of Durban (South Africa);
- Other South African Ports: Richards Bay, East London, Ngqura, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Saldanha;
- Port of Walvis Bay (Namibia).
The objectives of the subject “Maritime Transport in Africa” are the following:
- To know the state of the African maritime transport;
- To analyze the features of the largest African ports;
- To know how to access the fifteen African landlocked countries
through the transport corridors and ports;
- To evaluate the disconnection between the rail and road transport
networks and the African ports;
- To analyze the difficulty of the Containerization, bottlenecks and high
port costs in Africa.
Maritime Transport in Africa:





Maritime Transport in Africa.
Foreign trade traffic through the Africans ports has tripled in the last decade.
Maritime Transport in Africa.
- Port Deregulations;
- In general, high port tariffs. Increase of the logistics costs;
- Many African Ports are inadequately equipped to handle containers;
- Lack of integrated road and Rail transport links;
- Bottlenecks in many African Ports;
- Need for investments and institutional reforms. Chinese investments;
- Fastest growing region by general cargo: Southern Africa;
- Fastest growing region by container traffic: West Africa;
- The largest African port: Port of Durban;
- Importance of African corridors for the landlocked countries.
EENI African Business Portal.
- Rail Transport in Africa;
- Asia-Africa Corridor;
- African Business and Economy;
- Economic Area of the African Civilization.

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