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The construction of the Port of Walvis Bay’s new Container Terminal on reclaimed land commenced in mid-2014 and commissioned on 24 August 2019. This entailed the creation of 40 hectares of new land reclaimed from the bay within Namport’s current port jurisdiction. The newly reclaimed land was created by dredging or deepening the port and using the sand obtained from deepening to form the new land.
The reclaimed land is linked to the existing portland by a causeway. A modern container terminal is built on the newly reclaimed land and consist of quay walls, paved areas, buildings, roads, railway lines, ship-to-shore quay cranes, rubber-tired gantry cranes, etc.
The new Container Terminal has a capacity of at least 750,000 TEUs per annum, whilst ample space for optimisation and expansion of the initial facility exists. The terminal not only provides increased container handling capacity in the Port of Walvis Bay but also increase the port’s bulk and break-bulk handling capacity by freeing up the existing container terminal to utilized as a multi-purpose terminal.
The new Container Terminal adds 600 metres of quay wall length to the existing 1,800 metres, which will enable major rehabilitation of existing quay walls to occur with minimal disruption to operations. The three new berths at the container terminal are berth 9, 10 and 11. Berth 9 is the new passenger liner berth.
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