Luanda Harbor
The port of Luanda (Portuguese: Porto de Luanda ) is the largest commercial port in Angola . It is located in the center of the capital Luanda on the west coast of southern Africa. It is located in the bay of Luanda, which is protected from the high waves of the Atlantic by the offshore peninsula Ilha do Cabo . As a result, only weak currents and winds prevail. The port entrance is 1.5 nautical miles wide ; it is limited to the east by the Morro das Langostas and to the west by a marked sandbank. The passenger terminal is located on Luanda's splendid avenue Avenida 4 de Fevereiro .
Port facilities
It has five freight terminals and one passenger terminal with various quay lengths and water depths with a total annual capacity of 15 million tons of goods:
- Petroleum terminal with an area of 1,460,000 m², a quay length of 2064 m and a depth of 12.5 m.
- Multipurpose Terminal I with an area of 181,070 m², a quay length of 610 m and a depth of 12.5 m as well as a storage area of 10,500 m².
- Multipurpose Terminal II with an area of 178,641 m², a quay length of 536 m and a depth of 10 m (ZH) as well as a storage area of 10,500 m².
- Container terminal with an area of 142,467 m², a quay of 350 m with a depth of 10.5 m and a quay of 200 m with a depth of 12.5 m and a storage area of 1250 m² (expansion to 5000 m² in planning).
- General cargo terminal with an area of 80,000 m², a quay of 800 m length with a depth of 10.0 m (ZH), a quay of 100 m length and a depth of 5.5 m (ZH) and a storage space of 24,675 m² .
- Passenger terminal with an area of 4090 m² with a quay of 46 m.
history
- In 1575, the Portuguese Paulo Dias de Novais berthed on the Bay of Luanda because of its deep waters and protected location.
- In 1641 the Dutch occupied the port and prevented the Portuguese slave trade to America.
- In 1648 the Portuguese recaptured the city and the port and continued the slave trade.
- In 1844 the governor Calheiros e Menezes had the first quay built.
- In 1886 the port received a boost with the construction of the railway line to Ambaca , and the port infrastructure was expanded.
- In 1913 the construction of a quay wall began as a replacement for the previously used landing stage at the customs building.
- In 1941, the commissioned Anglo-Dutch Engineering and Harbor Works Co. Ltd started building the port of Luanda.
- In 1945, the port's first expansion phase was inaugurated by the Portuguese Colony Minister Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano .
- In 1980 the Angolan government nationalized the port with the establishment of the state Empresa Portuária de Luanda under the direction of the Ministry of Transport.
- In 1991 the Ministry divided the port into six terminals, which were run by four state and one private company.
- In 1995, Empresa Portuária de Luanda awarded a concession to the state-owned oil company Sonangol to build an oil terminal .
- In 2019, the government of Angola launched an international public tender for the concession and operation of the multi-purpose terminal to improve port operations with the participation of private operators with many years of experience in the field. The application deadline is March 30, 2020.
Web links
- Port Statistics Graphics (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sobre o Porto portoluanda.co.ao retrieved (Portuguese) on March 10, 2020
- ↑ Integrated Logistics Center sonils.co.ao , accessed on March 10, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Terminais portoluanda.co.ao , accessed March 10, 2020 (Portuguese)
- ↑ Note: According to a study by the Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, the number of slaves shipped from the port of Luanda to America rose between 1643 and 1645 to a level never before reached. (PDF) 413 KB (Portuguese)
- ↑ Government of Angola starts international public tender prnewswire.com , December 18, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2020 (German)
- ↑ Historial portoluanda.co.ao , accessed March 10, 2020 (Portuguese)