General

Port

Dakar

Name: Dakar
Address: Senegal

Senegal

SNDKR

Technical Data

Port Specifications

UNLOCODE: SNDKR
Port Type: General
Terminals: 6
Berth Count: 49
Max Draught: 8.8 m
Country: 🇸🇳 Senegal

Overview

About This Port

The Autonomous Port of Dakar is a Senegalese public enterprise which is headquartered in Dakar, located in the east of city. Thanks to the strategic position that gives it a sheltered harbor, it is now the third largest port in West Africa after the Autonomous Port of Abidjan and the Port of Lagos. It is also the ninth-largest port on the African continent.

Location

Coordinates

14.6833°N, 17.4333°W

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Port-call activity

Full traffic board

Arrivals, time in port and cargo operations detected from AIS: the position-inferred congestion signal, with the full dwell distribution rather than a single average.

In port now

Arrivals · 7d

Median dwell

10 h

P90 dwell

10 h

long-tail wait

Recent calls

GREAT THALASSA
· 10 h

Expected arrivals

1 inbound

Vessels underway broadcasting a destination that resolves to this port, closest first. Distance is the real sea route (around land and through canals). Off port is steaming time at the vessel’s passage speed; alongside adds the wait this port has actually kept comparable ships for. Berth waits vary far more than they average, so read the queue as typical, not promised. The crew’s own reported ETA is shown alongside for comparison.

Vessel	Type	Distance	Speed	Off port	Alongside	Crew ETA
WILD COSMOS	Reefer	1498 nm	16.9 kn	17 Oct	18 Oct+28h	·

Network

Connectivity & hub role

60.5/ 100

Regional hub135th of 350 covered ports

How central Dakar sits in the sea-route network we cover: a connectivity score across navigable distances. A higher score means the port is navigationally close to many other well-connected ports, the maritime signature of a hub.

Directly routable to 349 other covered ports.

Best-connected ports

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Method. A connectivity score across our own route network: a port reads higher when it is navigationally close to many other well-connected ports. The score is rescaled 0 to 100 within the snapshot, so the single most-connected port reads 100. Distances are Suez / Panama / Malacca-aware navigable sea miles.

Coverage. The route network spans the 350 largest commercial ports, so this ranks hubs within that covered network, not against every port on earth. The number is deterministic. No confidence grade is invented. Computed Oct 13, 2026.

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Vessel

Type

Distance

Speed

Off port

Alongside

Crew ETA

WILD COSMOS

Reefer

1498 nm

16.9 kn

17 Oct

18 Oct+28h