Port Elizabeth

Name: Port Elizabeth
Address: South Africa

South Africa

Technical Data

Port Specifications

Port Type: General
Terminals: 10
Berth Count: 5
Max Draught: 19.4 m
Country: 🇿🇦 South Africa

Conditions

Current Weather

Overview

About This Port

Gqeberha, also known by its former name Port Elizabeth and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa's second-smallest metropolitan municipality by area. It is the sixth-most populous city in South Africa and is the cultural, economic and financial hub of the Eastern Cape.

Location

Coordinates

33.9519°S, 25.6425°E

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Network

Connectivity & hub role

45.8/ 100

Regional hub305th of 350 covered ports

How central Port Elizabeth 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 348 other covered 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 0–100 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 Sep 1, 2026.

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