Dakar port (port code: SNDKR) is the principal port of Senegal. It is situated on the central west coast of Senegal.
The port is a safe sheltered harbour formed by two jetties. It is divided into two zones, North and South, separated by the fishing port, with over 40 berths and depths up to 12.0 meters. It contains 112.5 thousand square meters of open surface storage, 48.8 thousand square meters of covered storage space, and 15 thousand square meters of cold stores. In addition, it has 13 hectares of surface for storing containers, and capacity to store 290 thousand cubic meters of hydrocarbons.
The fishing zone in the port covers ten hectares and has nine stations with alongside depths from 9 to 12 meters. The quays are a total of 1854 kilometers long, and the fishing zone has facilities to store, congeal, and freeze fish.
The port handles more than 10 million tons of cargo and 425,000TEU annually. The main exports include ground nuts, edible oil, oil cake, gum, gold, sisal, shea butter, kapok, hides, phosphates, flour and cement. The imports are primarily cotton, metal goods, oil fuel, petrol, wine, coal, sugar and corn.
Each year about 2,400 vessels visit this port, among which 37% are cargo vessels, 31% are fishing vessels, and 10% are tankers. The maximum length of the vessels recorded to having entered this port is 294 meters. The maximum draught is 14.9 meters. The maximum deadweight is 160,250t.