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Port of Durban
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CountryPort of Durban South Africa
LocationDurban, KwaZulu-Natal
Coordinates29°52′24″S 31°01′28″E / 29.8732°S 31.0245°E / -29.8732; 31.0245
UN/LOCODEZADUR[1]
Statistics
2022 World Bank Container Port Performance Index341st (out of 348)
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The Port of Durban, commonly called Durban Harbour, is the largest and busiest shipping terminal in sub-Saharan Africa.[2] It handles up to 31.4 million tons of cargo each year.[3] It is the fourth largest container terminal in the Southern Hemisphere, handling approximately 4.5 million TEU in 2019.[4][5]

  1. ^ "UNLOCODE (ZA) - SOUTH AFRICA". service.unece.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Africa's ports: The bottleneck: New investment alone will not fix Africa's ports. Governments need to deal with pilfering officials, too". The Economist. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Port Terminals 2019" (PDF). TransNet. 2019.
  5. ^ "halong bay cruise overnight". Retrieved 29 March 2023.

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