Port Autonome de Dakar

Port of Dakar service

Handling

The loading and unloading of cargo, entrusted to private operators.

Container terminal of the Port of Dakar: stacks of containers and a tractor with a trailer.

Handling covers all loading and unloading operations, from the arrival of the cargo to its stowage on board the vessel or its storage on the yards.

To optimize port call conditions, handling operations are entrusted to private operators.

The operators

  • DP World
  • Bolloré Transport & Logistics
  • Necotrans
  • Sea Invest

Their arrival has considerably raised the port's level of equipment, increased handling capacity and reduced vessel turnaround time.

Equipment

  • A Manitowoc Grove GMK 5200 crane
  • A Pinguely TT 286 X crane
  • A Time VT 48 NE aerial platform truck
Four views of the yellow mobile cranes used for handling at the port.