Port conditions of Cape Town Port

Founded in 1652, it is the second largest city in South Africa. The geographical location of this port is important, and it is the only way for Europe to reach the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the west coast of Africa. It is the financial and industrial and commercial center of South Africa. The main industries are brewing, tobacco, oil refining, chemicals, leather, shipbuilding and paper making. The transportation is developed, with railways leading directly to PRETORIA, the administrative capital, and highways connecting with all parts of China. The port is about 2km away from the airport, and there are flights to JOHANNESBURG every day, and then foreign flights are connected.

The harbor has a subtropical Mediterranean climate, with northwest winds prevailing from April to September in winter, and large swells at sea occurring from October in summer to southeast winds prevailing from March of the following year. The highest annual average temperature is about 2℃, and the lowest is about 11℃. The annual average rainfall is about 5mm. Average tidal height: high tide is 1.8m and low tide is .3m.

there is a breakwater in hong kong, which is 1567m long. In the table bay area near the Cape of Good Hope, even if there is no wind, there are often swells coming from the southwest, so it is not suitable to anchor during winter.

The loading and unloading equipment includes various shore cranes, floating cranes, shiploaders, tugboats and ro-ro facilities, among which the maximum lifting capacity of shore cranes is 4 tons and that of floating cranes is 2 tons, and there is also an oil pipeline with a diameter of 23.2m for loading and unloading. The port area has a loading and unloading area of 5, square meters, a barn capacity of about 3, tons, a cold storage capacity of 27, tons, and a container yard area of 97, square meters, which can store 4858TEU. Handling efficiency: 1 tons of grain per hour. In 1994, the container throughput was 23.1TEU, an increase of 14% over 1993, and the annual cargo handling capacity was about 7 million tons. The main export goods are wool, hides, wine, dried and fresh fruits, feed, eggs, corn, fish oil and ore, and the imported goods are mainly wood, machinery, wheat, automobiles, textiles, crude oil and groceries. Do not work on New Year's Day and Christmas during holidays.