Autonomous Port of Dakar
| Autonomous Port of Dakar | |
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The port of Dakar in 2007 | |
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| 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 It is also the ninth-largest port on the African continent.
History
Led by Captain Protet, French troops took possession of the Senegalese coast in 1857. Work began on the port in 1862 and it was inaugurated in 1866.
While the Bolloré Group was in Senegal for more than 80 years, Dubai Ports World (DP World), who on October 8, 2007 signed an agreement with Senegalese Prime Minister Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré for a 25-year concession on the container terminal of the port, 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's shipping traffic carried 9.9 million tons of goods.[2]
Port operation
| Port handling charges - comparative costs at Dakar, Banjul and Bissau | |||
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Banjul |
Dakar |
Bissau | |
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Days in port |
14 |
12 |
16 |
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Total cost (USD) |
119,387 |
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
- ↑ Blandine Flipo, "Comment Dubaï a gagné Dakar", dans Jeune Afrique, n° 2440, du 14 au 20 October 2007, p. 99
- ↑ Comment Dubaï a gagné Dakar, loc. cit.
Further reading
- R. J. Peterec, The Role of the Port of Dakar in Independent West Africa: A Study of the Effect of Independence Upon, Columbia University, 1966
- Joseph-Clément Chappex, Le Port de Dakar, Dakar, University of Dakar, 1967, p. 240-28 p. (thesis)
- Pierre Dumard, Dakar, port de commerce (Dakar, Port of Commerce) in Revue maritime (Maritime Review), no. 135, July 1957, p. 847-853
- Monique Lakroum, Le Port de Dakar, étude économique et sociale de 1919 à 1939 (The Port of Dakar: Economic and Social Studies from 1919 to 1939), Université Paris-XII, 197?, p/ 176
- André Saint-Laurent, Le Port de Dakar et son hinterland (The Port of Dakar and its Hinterland), Université de Montréal, 1975 (M.A.)
- Tamsir Sylla, L’Impact du port dans l’urbanogénèse de la presqu’île du Cap-Vert, Dakar, université Cheikh Anta Diop, 1989, p. 94
- Ibrahima Thioub, Les Salariés africains du port de Dakar (situation économique et mouvements revendicatifs) de 1935 à 1939 (African Salaries at the Port of Dakar from 1935 to 1939), Dakar, University of Dakar, 1983, p. 32 (mémoire de DEA) (French)
- The Port of Dakar, Port of Africa, Dakar, Africa Publishers, 1983, p. 44
- The Port of Dakar, 1971, p. 76, series of articles
Map
- Côte occidentale d'Afrique. Port et Mouillage de Dakar. Levés en 1875 ... par Mr F. Leclerc (Coast of West Africa), Paris, 1876 (carte conserved in the British Library)
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Coordinates: 14°40′50″N 17°25′40″W / 14.680556°N 17.427778°W