Port of Ngqura

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The Port of Ngqura (English: Port of Ngqura ), also harbor Coega, is the youngest cargo port in South Africa and was established on the Indian Ocean. The word comes from the Ngqura language of the Khoisan and "Groundwater" means. There is also the spelling Ngqurha and further variants.

Operators and administrators for the port is the government Transnet National Ports Authority.

Location and General Description

The port is located at the mouth of the Coega River in Algoa Bay, 20 kilometers northeast of the city of Port Elizabeth.

The construction of the harbor with its adjacent industrial areas and their expansion investments form a tracked by the South African government strategic goal. It provides for further expansion of the industrial structure in the Eastern Cape Province.

History

As a basis for the construction of the eighth international trade port, the South African parliament passed the Port of Ngqura Establishment Act (Act No. 77/1998 ). It was determined that the cost of construction by the transport company Transnet Ltd. must be worn.

Initial work for port construction began in September 2002. The Port of Ngqura was in October 2009 with two deep-sea moorings for container ships officially put into operation. In the first year, 3.5 million tons of cargo, mostly transshipped as containerized cargo.

Port facilities

Logistics

In the port facilities containerized cargo, bulk and liquid bulk can be loaded. To a lesser extent, the volume of general cargo is possible.

The services required are provided by Transnet Port Terminals ( TPT) for containers all year round and all day and other bulk commodities on weekdays for 24 hours.

The seven active Piers offer a water depth of 16-18 meters. You can use a single length reach up to 325 meters, where cargo ships can create with a total length of 340 meters. For the container cargo handling four distribution terminals, for bulk and general cargo and two for liquid bulk a loading station available.

The port is designed as Schwerpunktverladeort for Manganerzkonzentrate from the mining area to the north of South Africa ( to Hotazel ​​) to relieve mainly the iron ore transport route serving Sishen - Saldanha Bay. In this connection it is to make further investments in Manganerzbergbau, the power supply and the Eisenbahnstreckenbau to Hotazel ​​.

Coega Industrial Development Zone

At the port adjacent to a 11,000 acre area for industrial development, which was developed by 2012 some with their core complex ( core) of about 6,500 hectares. This area is called the Coega Industrial Development Zone ( IDZ ), German about Coega Industrial Development Zone, and is export-oriented enterprise settlements. It is run by the state Coega Development Corporation (CDC). Close links exist for Nelson Mandela Bay Logistics Park ( NMBLP ) in Uitenhage, the largest automotive center on the African continent.

The major projects of manganese smelting plants ( ferromanganese ) and an aluminum processing plant to be supported and funded by the Coega IDZ. The corresponding basis for this is the development of the manganese ore mining in the Northern Cape to Kuruman and Hotazel ​​. The development priorities in the Coega IDZ include:

  • Metals / metal products: Ferro chrome, stainless steel, rolled products of iron and steel, aluminum processing,
  • Textiles: flax, wool and mohair products
  • Automotive Engineering: Automotive Technical components, plant and equipment
  • Business-related Services: Services to external processes and telephone counseling service
  • Chemical Products: Petrochemical products, chlorine
  • Energy: liquefied natural gas ( LNG)

The closest

About the National Road N2 with its own access road, the port area of the road is opened. There is a siding which leads from here to Port Elizabeth and is involved from there into the national rail network.

The Port Elizabeth International Airport is 22 kilometers away from the port area.

Makes Transnet and plans under the name manganese - corridor project further investment in improving the heavy freight transport from the mining areas in the north of the country. In particular, it comes to the expansion of the existing network to make axle loads of up to 26 tons possible with 200 - wagon trains. The main line runs from the Hotazel ​​region via Postmasburg, Kimberley, De Aar and Cradock for the Coega Industrial Development Zone on the Indian Ocean. The route expansion takes place in parallel with the construction of additional terminal components in the export port of Ngqura and should be completed by mid 2017. At this time the proposed expansion of an annual transport capacity of 5.5 million tonnes is to initially provided to 12 million tons. These 10.8 billion edge in the time periods 2012/13 and 2018/19 of Transnet Freight Rail will be provided for the expansion of routes and vehicle technology. The manganese - corridor thereby forms the third national infrastructure major project in freight cargo area of Transnet. In addition, some facilities of the Port Elizabeth harbor will be relocated to Coega.

Environment and Geology

During the construction of plant facilities on the territory of the Coega Industrial Development Zone to paleontologists interested in the comprehensive developed and fossiliferous at the Public Works coastal marine sediments from the Cretaceous and the Neogene.

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