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Summary
Max. Size:
Channel:
Depth 14.2 m. (tidal).
Breakbulk:
80,000 d.w.t., LOA 280 m., draft 12.6 m.
Containers:
LOA 350 m., draft 14.8 m., depth 16.0 m. (tidal).
Ro-Ro:
LOA 144 m.
Bulk:
80,000 d.w.t., LOA 280 m., draft 12.6 m.
Tankers:
110,000 d.w.t., LOA 286 m., depth 15.85 m. (tidal).
Gas:
15,000 d.w.t., LOA 150 m., draft 10.4 m.
Fuel:
Available.
Airport:
Aden Int'l, 6 km.
Repairs/Drydocks:
Floating dock capacity 1,500 tons.
Medical:
Facilities available.
Aden
YEADE
OVERVIEW:
Primary port for the country, consisting of Little Aden to the west and Aden to the
east. Aden itself is protected by a short breakwater at Ras Marbut, where Port Control
is located. The inner harbour handles primarily dry cargo. Little Aden, on the opposite
side of the outer harbour to Aden, handles crude, petroleum products and LPG
Dry cargo imports include automobiles, cement, chemicals, containers, flour, breakbulk,
livestock, reefer cargo, rice, specialised equipment, soya beans, steel products,
sugar, wheat.
Dry cargo exports include fish, wheat bran, breakbulk.
LOCATION:
On the southern coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, approx. 95 n.m. east of the Straits
of Bab al Mandeb, at the southern entrance to the Red Sea
Located between the promontories of Aden (Jebel Shamsan, 553 m.) and Little Aden (Jebel
Muzalqam, 374 m.) and protected from the NE and SW monsoons by these hills and along…
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