Autonomous Port of Dakar

Autonomous Port of Dakar

The port of Dakar in 2007
Location
Location Dakar, Senegal

The Autonomous Port of Dakar (French: Port autonome de Dakar, abbreviation: PAD) is a Senegalese public enterprise which is headquartered in Dakar, located in the east of city.[1] Thanks to the strategic position that gives it a sheltered harbor, it is now the third largest port in West Africa after the Autonomous Port of Abidjan and the Port of Lagos and the ninth largest port on the continent of Africa.

History

The port of Dakar in 2004
The port, sometime around 1905
The port in 1908
By the quays in 1967

Led by Captain Protet, French troops took possession of the coast in 1857. The port work began in 1862 and in 1866 it was inaugurated.

While the Bolloré Group was in Senegal for more than 80 years, Dubai Ports World (DP World) qui a signé an agreement for a 25-year concession on the container terminal of the port on October 8, 2007, with Senegalese Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré, marking a new breakthrough business in the Gulf States in Francophone Africa, ahead of the 11th summit of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation in Dakar in March 2008.

Plans for new infrastructure - modernization of the site and the "future of the port", as stated by President Abdoulaye Wade - are scheduled for delivery by 2012.

Activity

In 2006, the port traffic carried 9.9 million tons of goods.[2]

Port operation

Port Handling charges - comparative costs Dakar, Banjul & Bissau

Banjul

Dakar

Bissau

Days in the port

14

12

16

Total cost (USD)

11 9387

71 094

96 162

Source: World Bank ; African Development Bank study on the transport sector

Other

The football (soccer) club ASC Port Autonome is named after port and the port co-owns the club.

See also

Notes

  1. Blandine Flipo, "Comment Dubaï a gagné Dakar", dans Jeune Afrique, n° 2440, du 14 au 20 October 2007, p. 99
  2. Comment Dubaï a gagné Dakar, loc. cit.

Further reading

Map

External links

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Coordinates: 14°40′50″N 17°25′40″W / 14.680556°N 17.427778°W / 14.680556; -17.427778

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