Port of Dili
| Port of Dili | |||
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| operator | Government of East Timor | ||
| Daily ship capacity | 3 ships | ||
| Piers / quays | 1 | ||
| Container (TEU) | 1000 | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Dili | ||
| local community | Dili (municipality) | ||
| Country | East Timor | ||
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 33 '9 " S , 125 ° 34' 25" E | ||
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The port of Dili is the main civil port in East Timor . It is located in the Farol ( Suco Motael ) district, on the west side of the Bay of Dili . Freight is loaded here and the ferry to Atauro and Oe-Cusse Ambeno docks here.
In 2008, 260 ships visited the port. 24,570 containers (TEU) were reloaded.
Infrastructure
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The approach is a narrow passage through two reefs that are marked by beacons. However, there is a warning against entering the bay at night, as there are unmarked wrecks in the bay. Between November and the end of March, ships in the port are exposed to the northwest wind.
The concrete quay is 220 meters long (other source: 280 meters) and 20 meters wide. Ships that want to moor here may be a maximum of 140 meters long and have a maximum draft of 7.2 meters. A maximum of three ships have space on the quay at the same time. There is also a concrete ramp for loading the ferry with vehicles. There is also a container yard with a capacity for 1000 containers, a main port building, a transshipment warehouse, five warehouses and an administration building.
Yachts anchor either on the port side on the quay or in the bay.
A new port is currently being built in the Bay of Tibar , further west.
history
The site was already in use in the Portuguese colonial times.
During the civil war in East Timor in 1975 , both parties occupied the port. The Portuguese administration left the colonial capital from here towards the offshore island of Atauro . On December 7th of the same year, Indonesian troops landed in Dili. After conquering the city , the Indonesians led Chinese , members of FRETILIN and other prisoners to the port area, shot them and threw the bodies into the sea. The victims included suffragette Rosa Bonaparte , her brother Bernardino Bonaparte Soares , Isabel Lobato (the wife of Prime Minister Nicolau dos Reis Lobato ) and Roger East , the last foreign reporter in Dili. Witnesses speak of dozens of bodies. The total number of those executed in the shipyard is estimated at 150 people.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: ATLAS OF MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ESCAP REGION, Volume 17, Geology and Mineral Resources of Timor-Leste, United Nations , 2003 , p. 7, accessed on 19. March 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Logcluster: 2.1 Timor-Leste Port of Dili , accessed on December 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b Noonsite: Dili , accessed December 4, 2019.
- ↑ SAPO: Projeto de Porto de Tibar reconhecido com prémio internacional , April 9, 2019 , accessed on April 30, 2019.
- ↑ "Part 3: The History of the Conflict" (PDF; 1.4 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
- ↑ “Chega!”: “Chapter 7.2 Unlawful Killings and Enforced Disappearances”, Dili wharf on December 8, 1975 , pp. 40-43.
- ↑ ABC: Australia received East Timor 'hit list' before Indonesian invasion , November 27, 2015 , accessed December 19, 2016.
- ↑ ABC News: East Timor's latest attempt to find the body of its first prime minister Nicolau dos Reis Lobato , February 21, 2018 , accessed February 21, 2018.
- ^ Frédéric Durand: Three centuries of violence and struggle in East Timor (1726–2008) , 2011.
- ↑ Peter Carey: East Timor under Indonesian Occupation, 1975-99 , pp. 14ff., Accessed on December 6, 2018.