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Tanzania is becoming a preferred route for shippers as it overtakes the nearby ports in terms of volume and services provided. In the latest ranking of World Bank’s ranking of ports, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti and Berbera ports have toppled Mombasa
Tanzania is becoming a preferred route for shippers as it overtakes the nearby ports in terms of volume and services provided. In the latest ranking of World Bank’s ranking of ports, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti, and Berbera ports have toppled Mombasa.
The third edition of the global Container Port Performance Index (CPPI), has ranked the Dar es Salaam port at position 312 in 2022 out of the 348 ports worldwide, while Mombasa port in Kenya is positioned at 326, behind the regional peers in eastern Africa. Mombasa recorded a steep decline from the 2021 report where it was placed at position 296 by the World Bank. The ports are ranked based on their efficiency, measured by the elapsed time between when a ship reaches a port to its departure from the berth having completed its cargo exchange.
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Dar es Salaam has in recent years staged the stiff competition, threatening to pull most of the ships plying the East African waters into their harbour. Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows the volume of cargo handled by Mombasa port dipped for the first time in five years in 2022, because of the rising competition from Dar es Salaam. Total cargo throughput at the port shrunk to 33.74 million tonnes last year from 34.76 million tonnes the year before
