The shipping platform

Location: Djibouti is situated at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. General overview: Djibouti is the principal port for the transhipment of Ethiopian cargoes. The main exports are coffee, pulses, beans, oilseeds, oil cakes, hides and skins and the main imports are manufactured goods. The new port area of Doraleh, 2nm W of Djibouti, has a two berth Oil Terminal on a "T" jetty in deep water. Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT) has completed the construction of Phase I, close W of Djibouti main harbour and can berth two large container vessels together. A free port zone with an area of 14ha has been established adjacent to the port. Traffic figures: Approx 5,816,000t of cargo and 293,000TEU handled annually. Load line zone: Tropical. Max size: - Djibouti Port: LOA 300m, draught 12.0m. - Doraleh Oil Terminal: LOA 244m, no beam restriction, draught 17.0m, 80,000DWT. - Doraleh Container Terminal: 10,700TEU vessels, max draught 18m plus tide less UKC. For Djibouti discharging strongly recommend that visiting ships have their own equipment with sufficient SWL. Cargoes handled: all General Cargos ( steel products, equipment, structure, vehicles ), Grain ( wheat, rice, sorghum, pulses ), Ro Ro ( car carriers ), Containers ( normal , IMDG ), Coal, Clinker, Bagged Sugar, Bagged Cement, Molasses, Frozen Fish, Livestock etc Loading / Discharging rates depend on several factors vis Stowage, gangs, equipment availability and not consistent. Average discharge rate for General Cargo – 1500 m tons per day. Grains - 2500 m tons per day, Bagged cargo - 600 m tons per day.