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Transportation
Key Figures
The construction of the port started in 1905. At
the beginning it was a very small port. Its capacity
was not more than few hundred thousand tons and
the handling and storage equipments were limited
(mostly manual handling).
In 1977, Sea Port Corporation decided to start an
efficient development program. From 1977 to 1985,
they increase their handling capacity to an average
of 1.5 million tons. In 1990, they reached their target
of 3.5 million tons of capacity and in 1994 they sus-
tained a capacity of 5.5 million.
In 1996, Sea Port Corporation decided to launch
another development program to finally reach their
target of 12 million tons of port capacity
Structure of Sea Port Corporation
Sea Port Corporation uses 4 different entities which
form Port Sudan as the global entity:
- Containers terminal (called south port)
- Dry bulk handling terminal (called green port)
- General cargo terminal (called North port)
- Oil terminal (called Elkhair)
Sea Port Corporation uses also Osman Digna Port,
which is located at 60 km in the south of Port Sudan.
In this port, Sea Port Corporation has built several
facilities for dry bulk handling, livestock and pas-
sengers terminal. With more than 1.5 million of tons
capacity, this port is the second biggest one used by
Sea Port Corporation. First it was a port mostly dedi-
cated to the travel of pilgrims in direction of Saudi
Arabia.
In 1987, Sea Port Corporation needed another port
to support all the activities and so started to rebuild
Osma Digna port. The reconstruction ended in Janu-
ary 1991. At the beginning, Sea Port Corporation
started only with passengers activity. The maximum
length for ships was at a level of 100 m. So in 1993,
SPC rebuilt the entrance and now, any ships of more
than 200 meters length can access Osman Digna
Port. Now Osman Digna port diversified its activity
and manage passengers transport activities, cement
and asphalt shipping and transportation of oil equip-
ments.
New projects are also planned. SPC started in
2007 to undertake new dredging works in the port
entrance and in containers bases. They are also
constructing 2 new containers bases, whose lengths
will be of 800 meters and draft of 17.6 meters. This
project will be fully ended in December 2010.
Nowadays, Osman Digna Port is also equipped with
2 cargo stores, livestock of 1.5 million heads and 2
passengers stations which serves each year more
than 200 000 passengers. The traffic of import and
export flews of Golf Region and Egypt is also con-
stantly increasing and represents 200 000 tons per
month.
Located in the center of Sudan and at 400 km in
South of Khartoum, Kosti Dryport is also used by
Sea Port Corporation. This port benefits from a stra-
tegic location in terms of Import and Export flews,
just at proximity of famous Sugar factories.
At 300 km in the north of the city of Port Sudan, Osa-
ief port is located. Sea Port Corporation encourages
exports in this area, especially exports of iron.
Thanks to their localization, the ports of Sea Port
Corporation benefit from an easy access to roads
and railways between western and eastern world-
wide markets as well as inland and transit countries
or Northern and Western African countries.
Development plans
Developments plans of Sea Port Corporation are
always focused on the upgrade of port’s capacities
and the raise quality of serve.
On the project in South Port, Sea Port Corporation
built a new 800 meters terminal, with a depth of 16.4
meters. This is dedicated to biggest containers ships
up to 10 000 containers. They also recently ordered
4 STS and 8 RTG to equip this new terminal. This is
a new terminal which will be ready by the first quar-
ter of 2011. By building this new terminal, this will
increase the ships handling capacity from 500 000
TEU to 1 million 500 000 TEU in the container ter-
minal
Sea Port Corporation has also started to build a new
terminal in Osman Digna port (container terminal),
which will be ready in 2015. Osman Digma port will
have a handling capacity of 1 000 000 TEU at its
first stage.
In the coming 5 years, Sea Port Corporation will be
building another special livestock port at 30 km south
of Osman Digna and at 90 km from the south of Port
Sudan. Sea Port Corporation expects on a short and
medium term, a significative increase of exports vol-
ume. Sea Port Corporation is now exporting 2 million
heads per year. In the five next coming years, they
expect a level of exports of 4 million heads per year.
For this project, Sudanese Government has build