Port Overview

The Port of Algiers serves several wilayas (districts) of the country due to its strategic location. Open to the Mediterranean Sea, the port of Algiers is in the northwest part of the Bay of Algiers.

Port website: https://www.portalger.com.dz/

Key port information may also be found at: http://www.maritime-database.com

Port Picture

 

 

Description and Contacts of Key Companies

There are two refits for ship repair operated by ERENAV which has a series of workshops at the dock No. 16. Both facilities are facing the dock No. 13, which is operated by the Algerian Navy. There is a Sonelgaz power station at the rear dock 26.

Meditram operates a power station to support the infrastructure at Algiers port and to its surrounding area.

Located at Pier No. 26, the block park covers an area of 20,000 m² and has a work wharf for berthing pontoons and barges. The Office of Lighthouse Authorities (OSNM) is responsible for marking the Algerian coast by visual, sound and wireless, the ONSM has at dock level 26 workshops and a berth for his gear. The company of fats COGRAL currently operates 03 production units located behind the docks 32 & 36. These three units occupy a total area of 6.5 ha. They are connected to the dock # 36 by receiving pipes raw edible oils. A Vertical grain silo situated at 35/1 dock, grain elevator operated by CATO, has a storage capacity of 30,000 tons and equipped with 02 pumps sucking cranes for unloading grain .it occupies a total area of 8500 m². The port of Algiers has storage areas for goods (open ground). These areas mainly distributed along the ferry docks and intended for the storage of goods unloaded from ships. The total storage capacity (in stores) is equivalent to 270 000 m².

For more information on port contacts, please see the following link: 4.4 Port and Waterways Companies Contact List.

Port Performance

Discharge Rates and Terminal Handling Charges

For information on port rates and charges, please refer to this document from the Ministry of Transport website.

 

Berthing Specifications

Draught: Ranging from 6 meters to 10 meters, these drafts allow the port of Algiers to accommodate ships carrying up to 25,000 tons of cargo.

General Cargo Handling Berths

Port Handling Equipment

The Container Terminal is managed by DP World UAE since 2009 as a concession. There are a multitude of specialized facilities located inside the port and mainly operated by public companies.

Container Facilities

Received in 1998, the Container Terminal covers an area of 30.3 hectares. It has two (03) 300 ml berths with a draft of 9.00 to 11.00 meters.
It has:
     01 center stuffing and stripping 4.800 m²;
     01 2.000 m² maintenance workshop;
     01 1.000 m² park gear;
     01 administrative building 2.400 m²;
     01 checkpoint.

 

 

Customs Guidance

Goods must meet the following conditions:

1. Originate from non-governmental individuals or organizations;
2. Be transported by Algerian transport companies except when these companies do not serve the shipment area.
3. In the case of use of foreign shipping companies, the following conditions must be met:
   1. The transport not be for profit;
   2. The costs of transport be undertaken by the donor;
   3. The donors must moreover opt to use the ports or airports closest to the destinations of the goods.

 

Goods must bear the following identifying marks:

1. The type and brand of the product;
2. The name and address of the donor, and type of institution if applicable;
3. The name and address of the beneficiary, and type of institution if applicable;
4. Expiry dates of perishable products Goods originating from Algerian organizations established abroad must transit through the relevant Algerian consulates.

 

Goods may be imported as humanitarian aid if they are designated for any of the following uses:

1. Pedagogical and cultural activities, scientific research, sport, and public service activities;
2. Free distribution and other uses with humanitarian ends;
3. or activities aimed at the prevention of, and the fight against, pollution.

Approved charitable organizations appear on the list set by the inter-ministerial order of 22/11/94.

Algeria has increased liberalization of its export-import trade with foreign countries. However, the country is levying customs duties on certain high-level products in order to protect its national production. All import and export operations involving goods and services have to be domiciled with a bank.

Customs duties

The Algerian customs tariff is the same as that of the harmonized system of Brussels. The normal level of customs duty is not higher than 25%. However, some goods are subject to much higher duty which is around 40 to 50%. Some products are not taxed at all or taxed at a very low rate (3.7 or 15%).

 For more information on customs in Algeria, please see the following link: 1.3 Customs Information. 

 

Terminal Information

Multipurpose Terminal

The port is organized into three (03) zones:

• North Zone: Delimited by the fishery and the Harbor Master's office (from quay 1 to 11);
• Center Zone: Bounded by refit forms and the Container terminal (from platform 16 to 25);
• South Zone: Delimited by the Container Terminal and the East breakwater (from platform 30 to 37).

The three (03) zones are not communicating but connected from the outside by land (outside the port fence).

Main Storage Terminal

The port of Algiers has a total storage area of 282,000 m², representing 24% of the total surface evenly distributed among the three geographical areas of the port and welcoming merchandise, with 12 stores of 50,000 m². This capability allows storage of 120,000 tons of goods, while the average monthly volume landed is now 800,000 tons.

Received in 1998, the Container Terminal covers an area of 30.3 hectares. It has two 300 m berths with a draft of 9.00 to 11.00 metres. It has:    

• Stuffing and stripping center (4,800 m²);
• Maintenance workshop (2,000m²);
• Park gear (1,000 m²);
• Administrative building (2,400 m²);
• Checkpoint.

The terminal in the port of Algiers container is operated by DPWORLD UAE since 2009 as a concession.

Port Security

Maritime Database Information

Annaba Port Website

Description and Contacts of Key Companies

4.4 Algeria Port and Waterways Company Contact List

Discharge Rates and Terminal Handling Charges

The port is currently using the below shifts:

• 1 - Morning shift: 0700 to 1300.
• 2 - Evening shift : 1300 to 1900

Night shifts can be arranged as follow, however additional charges will apply:

• 1 - Night shift: 1900 to 0100
• 2 - Night shift: 0100 to 0700

Friday is a weekend; however previous arrangements can be done, for additional shifts or for on weekends, but additional rates applies.

* Average cost to be paid to the local agent

** Dry port tarrif 

Port Specifications

Customs Guidance

1.3 Algeria Customs Information

Terminal Information

Limited or no storage facilities available currently at the port.

Port Security

For visitors, access to the port, cargo terminals, requires approval from the boarder police based at the port. For foreigners, copy of the government travel authorization issued by MoFA to be forwarded to them as well as the visitor’s ID/passport. 

 

Maritime Database Information for Arzew Port

Port Overview:
The creation of the Arzew harbor dates back to Roman times (Portus Magnus) thanks to the exceptional qualities of its harbor and its situation resulted rich plains of Sig and Habra. This port, which has had various jobs for its expansion and development, has become, with the start of petrochemical units, a specialized port in hydrocarbons traffic.

Activities

• The operation of the equipment and port facilities.

• The Execution of maintenance, management and renewal of port superstructure.

• The operations of stevedoring and handling of goods.

• Pilotage Operations, towing and mooring.

• Exercise police and port security within the geographic boundaries of the port public domain.

• The fishing port management through the CPMT subsidiary whose capital is 100% owned by the EPA.

Port website: http://www.arzewports.com/eng/

Port Picture

Marine pilotage is to assist the captain of the vessel by providing local competance and experience to ensure the passage of sea vessel to the port and perform the maneuver with or without tug in restricted areas of port facilities surrounded by a minimum time and in the best safety conditions. They are directly related to tugs and boatmen who also intervene during docking and departure of the ship. It is ensured between the parallel of the lighthouse island of Arzew and meridian 00 ° 10' ouest. The boatage intervenes successively at the entrance and exit of ships from the port area.

  

Description and Contacts of Key Companies

4.4 Algeria Port and Waterways Company Contact List

Port Performance

The port operates continuously day and night. Handling operations take place during vacations organized as follows:

• 1st shift: 07:00 to 13:00.

• 2nd shift: from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Berthing Specifications

Dry Dock

Port Handling Equipment

1. Switch Bridges

2. Cement Cilo

Customs Guidance

1.3 Algeria Customs Information

Maritime Database Information 

Port website: Port of Bejaia Website

Description and Contacts of Key Companies

Port Performance

The total Traffic treated in 2009 by this port was 15,848,005 tons, included the volume of oil export 

Ferry Terminal. Capacity 45,000 passengers / year

Discharge Rates and Terminal Handling Charges

http://www.portdebejaia.dz/index.php/en/

Berthing Specifications

• Total area: 44 ha including 42 ha of land-cover full-and 2 acres

• 3 pools with a total area of 156 ha

• Drainage Port Forward: Its area is 75 hectares and its depth varies between 10 m and 13.5 m.

• The front port is designed to handle tankers;

• Drainage of the Old Port: Its area is 26 hectares and depth is around 8m;

• Basins of the Rear Port: Its area is 55 hectares and drafts vary between 10 m and 12m

• Linear total quay: 2,200 m, totaling 8 quays, for 24 berths.
  
  

The silos are exclusively reserved for the usage the two main companies OAIC, for cereals and CEviTAL for oil 

Port Handling Equipment

Container Facilities

BMT - SPA (Bejaia Mediterranean Terminal) operates the Container Terminal yard of Bejaia port. The company is a joint venture between EPB, the port authority that manages the port and PORTEK Systems and Equipment, a subsidiary of PORTEK international. 

Customs Guidance

1.3 Algeria Customs Information

Terminal Information

Grain and Bulk Handling: Grain sucker: 250 tonnes/heure

Port Overview

Oran is a major port in Algeria, and since the 1960s has been a commercial, industrial, and educational centre for Western Algeria. The port is located at Oran province in the north-western part of the country and is less crowded than Algiers port.

Port website: http://www.port-oran.dz/

Key port information may also be found at: http://www.maritime-database.com

 

Port Picture

Description and Contacts of Key Companies

L'Enterprise Portuaire D'Oran (EPO) is an economic public company in the legal form of a joint stock company. EPO manages the commercial port of the city of Oran, under the supervision of the Port Services Group and the Ministry of Public Works and Transport.

For more information on port contacts, please see the following link: 4.4 Port and Waterways Companies Contact List.

Port Performance

There are 19 quays at the port with a maximum draft of 11 meters and minimum draft of 7.2 meters. The Port of Oran handled 278 342 TEU in 2019, representing a significant raise compared to the previous years. There are no particular advantages granted to humanitarian commodities. 

Discharge Rates and Terminal Handling Charges

Please refer to the following document:http://www.port-oran.dz/docs/divers/ctarif012019.pdf

Port Handling Equipment

The management of the port handling equipment is done by EPO, the port public company.

Container Facilities

Customs Guidance

For more information on customs in Algeria, please see the following link: 1.3 Customs Information. 

Terminal Information

Ro-Ro facilities are available but detailed information is currently unavailable.

Stevedoring

Stevedoring is provided by the public company as it is the only company operating in the port.

Hinterland Information

Items are moved out of the port by trucks. Each customer brings its own means of transport.

Port Security