United Arab Emirates based maritime operator DP World has set in place plans to further expand the Somaliland’s Port of Berbera after completion of Phase 1 of the project. This will require extending the quay from 400m to 1,000m and buying seven more STS gantry cranes. The completion of Phase 1 of the port’s redevelopment, […]
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Berbera port is the main overseas trade gateway of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland. The port city is located on the Gulf of Aden – one of the globally most frequented seaways connecting the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. Only a few years ago, Berbera port was a dilapidated runway, originally built by the British empire, and […]
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Ethiopia has lost 19 percent of its stake in the port of Berbera over failure to fulfil conditions required to complete the ownership deal, the government of Somaliland has said. This effectively reverses the agreement made in 2017 between Ethiopia, Dubai ports giant DP World and the Somaliland Port Authority on the Berbera port. Somaliland […]
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A visit to the Port of Berbera on the coast of Somaliland is certainly not for the faint hearted. It is blistering hot in summer with temperatures that regularly breach the forties, a journey made more challenging by the occasional camel loping along the main road. It is however an essential trip for any policymaker […]
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The US military could gain access to the self-declared state of Somaliland’s strategically positioned port and airfield at Berbera, to counter the Islamic extremist rebel group al-Shabab in Somalia. This is after US President Joe Biden signed an order on Monday to redeploy hundreds of American troops to Somalia,, days after top Pentagon officials visited […]
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United States growing interest in Somaliland became clearer this week with the visit by General Stephen Townsend, Commander of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to the Horn of Africa nation. General Townsend, the top US military official to visit Somaliland since 1991, was accompanied by US Ambassador Larry André and other US government officials when […]
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