Port Overview

2.1.1 Angola Port of Luanda

Port Overview

The port of Luanda, located on the bay of the city of Luanda, offers excellent conditions for navigation and for operating sea transport vessels. Its location in the middle of the west coast of the African continent positions this port as an ideal stop for ships on-route to the western parts of the continent.

Luanda port is managed by Empresa Portuaria de Luanda (EPL), a public company that grants concessions to parties to operate cargo and passenger terminals. Currently, Luanda port is the largest seaport in Angola, responsible for around 80% of the turnover of cargo transported by sea in the Angolan territory. (Investment Memorandum. December 2019). This port is strategically located adjacent to the Luanda Railway (CFL) and is currently the only seaport that has a railway connection with a border country to Angola, namely the DRC. The following specialised terminals are found at Luanda port:

• Multi-terminals (break-bulk terminal);
• Unicargas (multipurpose terminal);
• Sogester (container terminal);
• Sonils (oil & gas terminal); and
• Soportos (multipurpose terminal).

Port website: Ihttps://www.portoluanda.co.ao/

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

Port Picture

Description and Contacts of Key Companies

CONTAINER LINES CALLING AT THE TERMINAL

Conti Horizon Line Grimaldi

CMA CGM Lin Lines

Delmas Hartmann Project Lines

PIL Spliethoof's

NileDutch Secil Maritima

Ocean Africa Container Line Nordana Line

MSC Clipper Shipping Line

MOL GTAL

Pan Africa Line Maersk Line

Africa Union Transport Safmarine

Angola South Line

Port Performance

The port of Luanda has a total of 2.708 m of mooring quay, divided into 5 big terminals

(General Cargo terminal, multipurpose terminal, container terminal, the Oil supply Base Terminal and Soportos / 5M).

The water depth along the quay varies between 10.5 and 12.5 meters with exception to the cabotage terminal here the depth varies between 3.5 and 5.5 meters.

The management of the port terminals has been given for concession to private operators in 2005 for 20 years period, in the scope of a modernization strategy in which the main goals are the improvement of infrastructures, the quality and price of port maritime intermodal and logistic service willing to endow the port of Luanda with capacity to answer the foreseen traffic growth of goods.

Discharge Rates and Terminal Handling Charges

For information on port rates and charges, please see the following link: 

https://www.portoluanda.co.ao/Documentos/9-REGULAMENTO%20DAS%20TARIFAS%20PORTUARIAS.pdf

Berthing Specifications

General Cargo Handling Berths

Port Handling Equipment

Container Facilities

CONTAINER TERMINAL

Run by Sogester (Sociedade Gestora de Terminais S.A.), which is a joint venture between by APM Terminals and a Gestão de Fundos (local Angolan company).

It has an area of 142.000 m2 and mooring quay extension of 500 m.

MULTIPURPOSE TERMINAL

The concession for management of this terminal was adjudicated to Unicargas.

It has an extension area of 178.641 m2 and a mooring quay of 536m. 

Contact: Comercial Director – Mrs Ondina – (+244) 923 369 406

GENERAL CARGO TERMINAL

Concession was given to Multiterminais. the terminal has an extension area of 80.000 m2 and a mooring quay of 900 m. In the general cargo terminal new facilities will be constructed among them silos with capacity of 10.000 tons and cold stores. 

DP World : This new terminal was built as a national reconstruction terminal. It has a mooring quay of 604 m divided into 3 quays, and a second line is created just behind DP World in order to facilitate big importers with a separate stacking area at no extra costs.

Contact: commercial Director Mrs Nady +244 93044167

Sonils - The Oil Supply base terminal: The Oil supply base terminal has an area of 938.729m2 and a mooring quay of 878m. It has been given to concession in 1997 to Sonils Lda (Sonangol Integrated Logistics Services) for a 25 years period. It is the support center for the region oil and gas industry offering a wide range of services. In this terminal are presently operating most of the oil production companies and related companies, having each of them exclusive areas for its services and offices. The areas are self-sufficient in terms of electricity, water and communication. The existence of the center gives certain advantages for the oil and gas industry in Angola, as well as economic benefits for the country, for the companies related to the oil and gas activity and also security and logistic advantages. 

Contact: commercial Director +244 923818227 

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