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  • Africa’s Top 5 Largest Ports

    Check out Africa’s Top 5 Largest Ports

    Have a look at the ports Africa uses to handle more than 90 percent of its cargo. Let’s dive into Top five!

    The African continent uses sea cargo to handle more than 90 percent cargo and its imports and exports from across the globe. Being an exceptionally large content out of the seven in total, Africa has many exceptions, where Suez Canal in Egypt is one of these exceptions.

    It is a 102 miles long man-made channel connects two seashores and used for cargo ships coming from Mediterranean sea and red sea region to Arabian sea. This canal saves hundreds of miles travel for those ships.

    Going forward, the majority of countries in the African region are not that developed in the many fields of life and need innovation to be done, the maritime field is one of them. It needs development and innovation.

    Africa is more than 6 percent of the total surface of the planet earth and more than 70 percent states in African region are directly connected to the sea and this way they hold more than 6 percent waterways of the maritime industry.

    More than 6 percent of total traffic out of which half of the container traffic of the world cargo intercepted by the African ports. We have listed top 5 ports of Africa with lots of information about the ports and their facilities and definitely their capacity is also stated below. Let’s see what these ports are and which countries are hosting them.

    Port of Durban, South Africa

    Country: Republic of South Africa

    Province or District: KwaZulu Natal

    Town or City (Closest location): Durban

    Port’s Complete Name: Port of Durban

    Managing Company or Port Authority: Transnet National Ports Authority

    Average vessel calls per year:  4,554

    Container Traffic (TEUs):  40,477,697

    Bulk (Million Tons / year):  34,205,900

    Conventional Berths; 31

    Berth sizes: 228-meter x 9.6 meter deep berths

    Container berths: 10

    Berth sizes: 295-meter x 11.9 meter deep berths

    Bulk Liquid handling Berths: 9

    Berth sizes: 228-meter x 12.8 meter deep berths

    container Facilities Available: Yes

    Container Freight Station (CFS): Yes

    Refrigerated Container Stations: Yes

    Daily Takeoff Capacity (Containers per day): No

    Number of Reefer Stations (connection points): 80

    Cooling chambers: 11 x 27,000 m³

    Pre-cooling funnels:  69 x 9,500 m³

    Open storage:  4,000 m³

    Multi-Purpose Terminals:

    Total Storage capacity = 42,000 m³

    Load rate (Agricultural) = 500 MT / hr.

    Draught available = 9.6 m

    Let’s start with Africa’s most popular and most active general cargo port and it is situated in the South African region, it is Durban port. The Durban port is known as the port of the Durban and situated in the central business region of the Durban. This port is the most important seaport of South Africa and plays an imperative role in the economy of the region.

    The port of Durban is Africa’s largest container ports and handles the most amount of sea traffic than all other seaports of South Africa. On average, the port of Durban hosts more than 4,500 container ships and 996,000 containers every year. More than 45 billion dollars in-out comes through the port of Durban.

    According to the Durban port management authority, the port of Durban handles more than 44 million tons of cargo every year and it is increasing every year. It is one of the most active ports in the African region and operates 24/7-365 and its channel depth is just under 13 meters on the entrance and it is more than 220 meters wide at the same time.

    The width has been widened to 222 meters at the tiniest point. Recently the entrance has been deepened to 19 meters while shallowing to not less than 16 meters inside the bay to handle larger vessels.

    The regular callers on the Durban port are 300 meters long and 37-meter beam carriers, they regularly call on the port. In the daylight, port authority restricts the ships to 243m and 35m due to lower draught levels, reduced to 11.9m to 12.2m.

    During the night, restrictions changed to 200m and beam height to 26m when draught remained to 11.6 meters. The larger vessels carrying around 230,000 dwt can enter the Durban harbor region but the ships larger than 230,000 dwt handled by the outer anchorage.

    The largest vessel handled by the Cargo to Africa is the ULCC tanker weighing 564,650 dwt. This vessel has a length of 458 meters and height of 69 meters received underwater repairs in the outer anchorage region. The terminals and cargo anchorage have different capacities to handle the cargo. There are two types of cargo terminals including one for general purposes and other for grains and bulk handling.

    Multipurpose Terminal:

    The city terminal or the Multi-Purpose Terminal is known as the Maydon Wharf 5 used for the bulk loading and unloading facilities on the port. This port has following capacities

    Total Storage capacity = 42,000 m³

    Load rate (Agricultural) = 500 MT / hr.

    Draught available = 9.6 m

    Subjected to the port authority approval, the vessels also use the rising tide for loading. On the other hand, grain and bulk handling terminals have following facilities. The Maydon Wharf 8 is a dedicated elevator agriculture grain and bulk cargo handling facility for grain products.

    Capacity = 34,560 MT

    Loading rate = 1,200 MT / hr.

    Draught = 10.3 m, 11.5 on rising tide

    Discharge rate = 275 MT / hr.

    Being the largest container port in the African region, it is necessary to discuss the container terminals as well. The container terminal has been upgraded recently and the terminal capacity has been optimized with more sophisticated equipment. The terminal has 20 straddle carriers and three quayside cranes. The upgrade has increased the capacity to 1.6 million tons from 1.3 million tons every year.

    African Seaports are bit slower in the operations and they normally work on 7 to 20 moves per hour, however, the global standard is a bit higher than these cranes. Global standard is 25 moves per hour per crane. Durban port including the South African ports handles more than 23 percent of the total container cargo in Africa.

    Port of Kilindini Harbour Mombasa, Kenya

    Country: Kenya

    Province or District: county of Mombasa

    Town or City (Closest location): Mombasa

    Port’s Complete Name: Kilindini Harbour, Mombasa

    Managing Company or Port Authority: Kenya Ports Authority

    Average vessel calls per year:  1340

    Container Traffic (TEUs):  894,000

    Bulk and breakbulk (Million Tons/year):  30,920,900

    Conventional Berths; 23

    Berth sizes: 2080 meter x 10-13.5 meter deep berths

    Container berths: 6

    Berth sizes: 1204 meter x 13.5 meter deep berths

    Bulk multipurpose Berths: 17

    Berth sizes: 2080 meter x 12.8 meter deep berths

    Container Facilities Available: Yes

    Container Freight Station (CFS): Yes

    Refrigerated Container Stations: no

    Daily Take Off Capacity (Containers per day): 670

    Number of Reefer Stations (connection points): 120

    Bagged Cargo stations: 10

    Bagged Cargo Station Area: 90,597 sq. meters

    General Cargo stations: 10

    General Cargo Station Area: 90,597 sq. meters

    Mombasa port is approximately midway between Middle East ports on the red sea and South African port of Durban. The Mombasa port is one of the largest ports in the African region, indeed the largest port in the east African region. The Mombasa port is Kenya’s largest port and works as the main gateway to central Africa and eastern part of the continent. This port serves more than 120 million population of the hinterlands including Burundi, eastern DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, and the northern part of Tanzania.

    With the length of 7 nautical miles and a width of 300 meters, the Mombasa port has a maximum depth of 15 meters and inner harbor tidal range of 3.5 meters. The port has more than 19 berths where different terminals are constructed to handle bulk cargo, grain cargo, and oil cargo. On the other hand, there are 4 container berths to handle container cargo including 20 to and 40 teu containers. At the same time, Mombasa port has 12 berths for general cargo handling as well.

    The recent development work on the port has increased the modern look. Port has new equipment and new main entrance channel to handle larger vessels. The port has the ability to handle most advanced Panamax vessels. The Mombasa port is ranked at 117th and in the African ports, its grade is 5th. There are many bottlenecks which are still restricting the operations of the port.

    • For specialized services port has fewer berths
    • Manual labor affecting quick services
    • Rainy season is a big game changer at the port. It slows discharge operations,
    • Timely clearance required correct documentation
    • Average wait time is still more than 3 days

    The port has six container berths and all these berths have an open seafront of more than 1204 meters where two container cranes have been installed to load and unload containers. These cranes are fully loaded with most modern gears and gadgets to speed up the operations on the port. The modern cranes are capable of making 25 moves per hour and this world standard for fast business operations at the ports.

    Port of Djibouti

    Country: Djibouti

    Province or District: Djibouti

    Town or City (Closest location): Djibouti

    Port’s Complete Name: Port of Djibouti

    Managing Company or Port Authority: Djibouti Ports Authority

    Average vessel calls per year:  1577

    Container Traffic (TEUs):  744,000

    Bulk and breakbulk (Million Tons/year):  3,772,900

    Conventional Berths; 29

    Bagging line capacity: Berth 15.

    Discharge with silo availability option; 7 MT/day

    Average discharge rate: 300 MT per shift

    Warehouse storage capacities: 70,000 MT

    Bulk Fertilizer Discharge Rate; 3.5mt per day

    Silo availability option; Berth 14

    Container Facilities Available 20ft: Yes

    Container Facilities Available 40ft: Yes

    Container Freight Station (CFS) 20ft: Yes

    Container Freight Station (CFS) 40ft: Yes

    Refrigerated Container Stations 20ft: Yes

    Refrigerated Container Stations 20ft: Yes

    Djibouti is an important country in the African region and its importance increased because of military operations through the ports of Djibouti. Djibouti ports own a crucial standing in geostrategic, military and economic terms. The Ethiopian trade and transshipment of goods pass through the port of Djibouti. The natural protection of the Djibouti waters and excellent nautical conditions play an imperative role in the breakwater structure and the coral reef colonies near the port break up the water agitation and resultantly they offer excellent conditions for shipping. They offer quiet and deep water in the port. The anchorage depth of more than 10-40 meters can be used and it is even protected by the reefs. These reefs also protect the coastal areas from pollution and these are the only ports where agents need to send manifest 48 hours before the call of the ship.

    The DP world management has improved the port performance to the utmost level since their partnership started in 2011. They have introduced different management systems and international managerial expertise to handle the port operations, security, and safety matters and the training of the staff. By these efforts from DP world, the Djibouti port has compliant with the ISPS international ship port facility. More than 28000 security accreditations from the register of Lloyds have been received by the port of Djibouti.

    Lagos, Nigeria

    Country: Nigeria

    Province or District: Apapa Local Government

    Town or City (Closest location):  Lagos Island

    Port’s Complete Name: Port of Djibouti

    Managing Company or Port Authority: APM Terminals/Nigeria Port Authority{NPA}

    Average vessel calls per year:  397

    Container Traffic (TEUs):  465,000

    Conventional Berths; 4

    Berth sizes: 1005 meter x 10-13.5 meter deep berths

    container berths: 4

    Berth sizes: 1005 meter x 13.5 meter deep berths

    Containers Facilities Available for 20ft & 40ft; Yes

    Containers Freight Station available for 20ft & 40ft; Yes

    Refrigerated Container Stations available for 20ft & 40ft; Yes

    Daily containers take-off capacity of both 20ft and 40ft Between 100 & 300

    Number of Reefer Stations (connection points); 620 reefer plugs that serve both 20’s & 40’s

    The port of the Lagos is the economic hub of Nigeria and it is the main player in the GDP growth of the country. The port of Lagos is also known as the Lagos Port Complex of Apapa. This port is located in Apapa area of Lagos in the south-west of Nigeria. The port operational structure is based on the berths and cargo handling stacking along with massive cargo storage areas.

    The port of Lagos is one of the leading ports in the African region and it is one of the busiest ports as well. The Nigerian port authority controls the port operations by splitting the port into three different divisions. The Lagos port division is the main section of the port and it is a channel next to the Lagos Island. Apapa port is the site for container terminals and tin can port, these sites are located in Badagry Creek.

    Suez Canal, Egypt

    Country; Egypt

    Province or District; Suez

    Town or City (Closest location) with Distance (km); Suez

    Port’s Complete Name; Port of Suez (before Port Tewfiq)

    Managing Company or Port Authority; Red Sea Port Authority

    Vessel Calls; 300

    Container Traffic (TEUs); 4,200,000

    Handling Figures Bulk and Break Bulk; Bulk (MT) 19,154,524

    Conventional Berth; 48

    Berth length; 6532 sq. meter

    Berth depth; 12.81

    Container Berths; 4

    Berth size; 732 sq. meter

    Berth depth; 12.49

    Silo Berths; 3

    Berth size; 695 sq. meter

    Berth depth; 10.00

    The Suez Canal is a canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez through its 101 miles length. This is also called a northern branch of the red sea. The port is also located in the northern part of the canal.

    This area is situated in the southern gate if the canal. It is also an imaginary border extending from Ras Masala to Ras El-Sadat along the canal. The northern coast of the area included in the region till the canal starts. The canal was started in 1869 and since its launch; it has allowed ships to use a shorter route between Europe and Asia.

    This canal has reduced thousands of miles distance and skipped the navigation around African continent and reduced the sea voyage between the Arabian Sea and Europe. The SCADA or the Suez Canal Axis development program aimed at the development and the expansion of the canal. This canal will be further expanded under this project to facilitate the sea traffic.

    The passenger vessels transit system has been controlled at the port of the Suez quay and it accommodates all the passenger transit of up to 10 meters. There are no restrictions applied to the 8.2-meter ships and they can enjoy a free float in the canal.

    However, a written application to the SCA needs to be submitted with the number of passengers on board. The canal authority also demands a written proof of the activities of the passengers on the ship in the same application that who they are and why they are on the ship.

    The port authority listens to the ship on the radio frequency of 156,800 MHz for security purposes as there was a threat to the canal in previous years. The port handles more than 970 million tons of cargo on average every year and it is a midway stop to all traffic between Europe and South Asia.

  • The Top 9 Ports of the UK

    Major Sea Ports that play vital role in the advancements of cargo business in the UK

    United Kingdom is one of the most stable economies and in the early times, being an island country, the UK was totally relying on the sea shipping even for transportation across the region. The country has hundreds of small and large docks, harbor and shipping ports. Almost all ports in the UK are still active and offers cargo shipping to the other countries and also offers to ship all across the globe.

    When importing items to the UK utilizing port offerings, you’ll in no way have to be aware of which port you use on your distinctive cargo as Cargo to Africa provides you a full range of the first-class service in your cargo delivered to your destination whether it is in Africa or in the UK. However, you’ll be very careful and need to know which port in the UK your goods might be shipped to. One of the first questions you must ask when you consider your excess baggage and another bulk cargo via sea freight is “which port is closest to me?” but again you need to be very careful deciding get delivered your cargo on that port too.

    Most probably, we prefer that what port is nearer or easily accessible to us and the cargo service providers offer to give us cargo delivered to us straight away. These phrases can quite often just right to be true and can end up with you paying out exorbitant concealed charges when your goods reach the UK.

    When small corporations import their cargo items and even export them out of the UK, they knew that there are five fundamental ports through which they could route a cargo on board a cargo ship and can deliver it across the globe. They mostly use the UK’s busiest container port named Felixstowe. From across the globe, it is the undoubted destination for shipments, right here’s a summary of different ports in the UK.

    1-       The Port of Felixstowe

    It is the Well-known port of the United Kingdom originated in Suffolk, the Port of Felixstowe is biggest and demanding container port in the United Kingdom and one of the largest sea ports across the Europe. Should you’re importing not up to a container (LCL) shipment from Asia then this is effectively unswerving, where we’ll have it dispatched to. Regardless of the place in the UK, your items are to be delivered to the UK’s Largest Port. The Felixstowe East region makes it upright site to dispense your cargo to wherever you want them across the UK.

    The port handles a massive amount of cargo not less than 3.5 million twenty-foot containers on yearly basis and provides some of the deepest water close to the open sea of any European port. Felixstowe covers more than 365 ports across the globe to runs shipping services. Felixstowe is the port most commonly used and will usually be where your items are shipped to with no hidden costs.

    2-       The Port of Southampton

    You are engaged in any kind of business and it is centered in the south of England and importing full containers of goods and cargo of any kind, then Southampton is a good option. The saving in haulage expenses that may be received by using routing containers through Hampshire, the port of Southampton most likely makes Southampton the fine place to send your cargo container. We will additionally use it for container masses if there’s a just right carrier from your supplier’s nearest port in Asia.

    The Port of Southampton has the second largest container terminals in the UK – and so they control not less than 1.5 million TEUs every year. Southampton’s dredging program implies that 15.5m draft vessels, and it will allow the world’s largest container ships to get into the port. For reference, this can be a map with the places of the fundamental ports in the UK. You should use this to see which port is closest to you.

    3-       The Port of Tilbury

    The port of Tilbury is placed on the bank of the River Thames in the Essex County, we often utilize the port of Tilbury to import goods from Australia, USA, and the Middle East. The Port of Tilbury runs the London Container Terminal, which is Europe’s biggest terminal for refrigerated containers. It has 1,400 reefer plugs on terminal and access to a 25,000 pallet space cold retailer facility operated by NFT. The Port has some stiff competition from the new London Gateway port on the River Thames ahead of the Tilbury port which is about to come to be certainly one of Britain’s most important ports and is only a few miles along the banks of the Thames.

    4-       The Port of Grangemouth

    The Port of Grangemouth is Scotland’s biggest container port and lies midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh in the coronary heart of Scotland’s industrial sector. This port is Scotland’s most important container terminal and on yearly basis, this port handles roughly one hundred fifty thousand containers. As Grangemouth is connected to the M9 Motorway, it has links to the countrywide motorway network and the railway. Interestingly, the Port of Grangemouth is the only port within the UK that exports more than its import. Preferably the second best option, if you’re just starting out and have to hold an eye fixed in your budget.

    Roughly 9 million tons of cargo are being managed through the port facilities each and every year. Of this, 2.5 million tons is dry cargo, which denotes received uncooked materials for Scottish industry and outgoing finished products. As Scotland’s essential container terminal, this port handles approximately one hundred fifty thousand, containers which are almost 30 percent of Scotland’s gross domestic product (GDP) goes through this port.  It’s the largest feeder port of the UK and the one who exports more than it imports.

    This sea cargo port has two gantry cranes, 113 straddle carriers, modern day driver’s reception system, fixed Terminal operating system, 500,000 square feet of warehousing, 365 acres of estate, Private and common customer docks, LPG berth, Committed common cargo berths, Capability to control ro-ro, part port, and conventional vessels.

    Grangemouth’s region at the center of Scotland’s essential areas of production and consumption, its rail and road based sea links, and its land availability makes the superb combo for the port’s extra progress as a logistics and distribution hub.

    5-       London Gateway Port

    London Gateway is the most advanced port and as the name implies, it is in London on the River Thames. The benefits to having a port placed on the edge of the capital city are great. It could completely streamline your supply chain. London Gateway definitely has the largest logistics park in Europe. They’re identified for the control of high volumes of time touchy and perishable goods on the grounds that of their completely quick ship-to-keep occasions. In case you do reside in or near town, this port lands your goods almost directly at your feet, which is able to prevent significant shipping fees. London Gateway’s base is towards 78 percent of the UK market in comparison with the nation’s present largest port including the Midlands and the North West. Appropriately, it’s only a 10-minute force far away from the M25.

    6-       Liverpool Port

    The Port of Liverpool is the sealed off 7.5 miles port from Brunswick Port in Liverpool to Seaforth Port, Seaforth, on River Mersey and the Birkenhead Port between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west aspect of the river. The port is being prolonged with the support of the constructing of an in-river container terminal at Seaforth Port, name Liverpool 2. The terminal will berth to 14,000 container Panamax ships. The terminal planned to develop on even advance bases, at the same time with the extended third locks of the Panama Canal.

    Garston Docks that are situated in the city of Liverpool should not a part of the Port of Liverpool. Mersey Docks and Harbour company operates the docks to the south of the Pier Head are functioned with the aid of the Canal & River believe, the successor to former operator British Waterways.

    Cruise ships sailed from Langton Dock, a part of the surrounded north docks method. Departures and arrivals were the field to tides. Cruise ships lower back to Liverpool’s Pier Head in 2008, berthing at a newly built cruise terminal, allowing departures and arrivals at any time. The terminal has been used as the begin and end of cruises, and now not basically a stop-off factor. This resulted in a clash with Southampton as a result of the great public subsidy supplied for the new terminal and Liverpool city Council has agreed to repay. Several colossal Royal Navy vessels, corresponding to HMS memorable and HMS Ark Royal, have moreover visited the terminal.

    The port can control cruise liners, roll-on roll-off ferries, and cargo of all forms. It’s not located in a single area, it stretches beside the tidal river, together with relevant London, with many character wharfs, docks, terminals and facilities built incrementally over the centuries. As with many identical ancient European ports, important of Antwerp and Rotterdam, the popular events has regularly moved downstream closer to the open sea, as ships have grown better and different makes use of soak up land in the direction of the town’s center.

    In modern days there will be a revival in using the River Thames for relocating cargo between terminals inside the Port of London. That is visible to be within the foremost part due to the environmental rewards of moving such cargo through the rivers linked to the sea mouths and as a substitute to shipping the cargo on the congested roads and rail networks of the capital. Neighborhood authorities are contributing to this wide in intra-port traffic, with waste shift and destruction debris being taken by barges on the river. At the reward, the construction of the Olympic Park and Crossrail are each utilizing the river as a means of transporting cargo and waste material. The Crossrail encounter on its own will involve the transporting of 5 million tons of fabric downstream via the Port, from locations similar to Canary Wharf to new nature reserves being built in the Thames inlet subject. This also requires the re-opening of wharves or piers for more than a few constructing initiatives alongside or near the Thames, Battersea coal jetty being basically the most contemporary.

    In 2008, to determine for intra-port alternative used to be 1.9 million tons, making the River Thames the busiest inland waterway within the UK.

    7-       The Port of Glasgow

    Glasgow is the second largest city within the Inver Clyde of Scotland and the port is also second largest port in Scotland. According to the 1991 census the population of Port Glasgow was 19,426 men and women and in the 2001 census was 16,617 men and women. The latest census in 2011 states that the population has dropped to 15, 414. It is placed promptly to the east of Greenock and was once earlier a borough in the former county of Renfrew. This port is also the best medium of door to door cargo service.

    The city was once at first named Newark, however because of ships no longer being capable of making it all the approach up the shallow river Clyde it was once formed as a port for neighborhood Glasgow in 1668 and grew to be Port Glasgow in 1775. Port Glasgow was connected to dry docks and shipbuilding founding in 1762. The city grew from the crucial area of the present city and hence the numerous city’s historic constructions are persistent here. Port Glasgow increased up to the steep hills inland to open fields the place areas equal to Park Farm, Bogle stone, Slaemuir, and Devol had been established. This discipline has due to this fact turn out to be often called upper Port Glasgow and most of the town’s population occupies these areas.

    8-       Port of Hull

    The Port of Hull is a port at the union of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, England. Seaborne exchange at the port can be drawn at the end of the thirteenth century, in the start piloted usually on the outfall of the River Hull, often called The Haven, or later as the historical Harbour. In 1773, the Hull Dock organization was formed and Hull’s first dock constructed, on land formerly occupied by Hull city walls; in the next half of century a ring of docks was built across the historical down on the website of the previous ramparts, often called the town Docks. Firstly, the Dock (1778), Humber Dock (1809), and Junction Dock (1829) an addition, Railway Dock (1846) was opened to serve the newly built Hull and Selby Railway.

    The primary dock east of the river, Victoria Dock, opened in 1850. Docks alongside the banks of the Humber to the west were begun in 1862 with the construction of the West Dock, later Albert Dock, the William Wright extension, opened in 1880, and a dock further west, St. Andrew’s Dock, opened in 1883. In 1885, a brand new Japan dock used to be built, Alexandra Dock, linked to a brand new railway line settled with the assistance of the equal constructor, the Hull Barnsley and West riding Junction Railway and Dock enterprise. Transport connections were enhanced in 1969 by the Queen Elizabeth Dock extension. As of 2016, Alexandra is being updated for use in wind farm development, with a factory, and inlet phase dock under the building, a development often called green Port Hull.

    The city Docks, Victoria Dock, and St. Andrew’s Dock fell out of use by means of the 1970’s and have been closed, some later infilled and improved, with the Humber and Railway docks improved for performing craft as Hull Marina.

    Other facilities at the port combined the Riverside Dock, made on the Humber banks at Albert Dock for passenger ferries and European trains, and the enterprise Quay, from which a Humber Ferry sailed to New Holland, Lincolnshire. Many industrial works had been served by the River Hull, which also compared the quantity of dry dock. To the east of Hull, Salt finish close Hedon grew to become a petroleum distribution factor in the 20th century, with docks into the inlet for shipment, and later developed as chemical works. As of 2010, the vital port is functioned with the aid of connected British Ports and is expected to handle a million passengers per year; it is the primary softwood bushes import for the United Kingdom.

    9-       Port of Dover

    The Port of Dover is the channel port established in Dover, Kent, southeast England. It’s the adjacent English port to France, at simply 34 kilometers away, and is the country’s busiest passenger port, with 16 million travelers, 2.1 million Lorries, 2.8 million automobiles and motorcycles and 86,000 coaches passing through it every year, with an annual income of 58.5 million a year.

    The port has been possessed and functioned through the Dover Harbour Board, a legal manufacturer, for the reason that it was once shaped by the Royal constitution in 1606 with the aid of King James I. Many of the board members are employees of the department for Transport. The port has its own personal police drive, the Port of Dover Police.