The two new cranes towering over a huge cargo ship are tall enough to reach even the highest of the containers that are stacked up five on top of each other. Trucks are lined up on the newly built 400-meter (1,324-feet) quay of the deep-water Port of Berbera, in Somaliland, waiting for the containers to be offloaded.
Dar es Salaam, Djibouti and Berbera ports have toppled Mombasa in the World Bank’s latest ranking on the most efficient ports, highlighting the competition fears that Kenya has had over Tanzania becoming a preferred route for shippers.