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What is #shipping (Then and Now)

Port Maputo is located in the south of the Mozambique Channel in the south-west Indian Ocean and is operated by the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), a partnership among the Mozambique Ports and Railways (CFM), DP World, and Grindrod Ltd.

Dar es Salaam port is Tanzania's principal port and handles approximately 95 percent of the South African country's international trade. The port is strategically located to serve not only East and Central Africa countries, but also the middle and Far East, Europe, Australia and America.

Part of the Lamu corridor transport & infrastructure project in Kenya, Lamu port plays an important role in the country's growing shipping industry.

Built between 1948 and 1954, the deep water port at Mtwara is 1 of 3 major ports managed by Tanzania Ports Authority. Recent improvements at Mtwara port has made it possible for big container ships to berth there.

Positioned on the south coast of Angola, Namibe (formerly Moçamedes) has an Atlantic sea border that is about 480 kilometers and is home to the port of Namibe, the third largest shipping port in Angola; after Luanda and Lobito.

The Tanzanian government has proposed a deep-water port with a 2 berth container terminal at Mbegani, near Bagamoyo. China is investing US$10 billion to make Bagamoyo the most important shipping port in Africa, by 2017.

As one of the Mediterranean’s key transshipment ports, located at the crossroads of some of the world’s greatest shipping routes and in the heart of the Europe/Maghreb/Middle East triangle, Malta Freeport processed 2.54 million TEUs in 2012. Since its establishment in 1988, Malta Freeport has experienced remarkable growth and is now a considered a major maritime transshipment logistic centre in the Mediterranean region.

The Port of Walvis Bay is located on the west Coast of Africa and provides an easier and much faster transit route between Southern Africa, Europe and the Americas. Walvis Bay is Namibia's largest commercial port, receiving approximately 3,000 vessel calls each year and handling about 5 million tonnes of cargo.

The Port of Alexandria is the main port in Egypt and one of the oldest ports in the world. The port's location on the western end of the river Nile Delta at the Mediterranean Sea, makes it accessible for shipping companies and allows it to accommodate three quarters of Egypt’s trade annually.

The Tanger-Med port in Tangier, Morocco, is one of the world's newest ports and is quickly becoming one of the busiest in Africa. It has 2 container terminals with a capacity of 3 million TEUs and has plans to build a third terminal, bringing the port's total capacity to 8 million containers by 2015. The busy Moroccan port is located in the Gibraltar Strait, which happens to be one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

The Port of Durban in South Africa is the largest container terminal in the Southern Hemisphere and the second- busiest in Africa. Currently the container capacity at the port of Durban stands at approximately 4.8-million TEU.

Due in part to it’s geographical location at the entrance to the Suez Canal, port Said is one of the most important and influential ports in Egypt. It has consistently made the list of the top 30 ports in the world for busiest container transport and is one of the top ports in the Arab region.

The port of Mombasa is the only international seaport in Kenya. With the addition of a new berth and recent upgrades the port now has the capacity to handle more than 1.1 million TEU. There are more plans to expand the port’s facilities to handle an additional 450,000 TEU by 2016, as well as other expansion phases to increase it’s size again by 2020. In Africa, the port Mombasa is now the 5th leading port and has the capability to accommodate the latest giant post-panamax vessels.

Apapa is the major port of the city of Lagos, Nigeria, and is the site of a major container terminal owned and operated by the Danish firm A. P. Moller-Maersk Group.