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- Commercial ships are bypassing Durban because of congestion
- Ships waited an average of 4 days to dock in Durban in April
- Average wait time in Mombasa and Pointe Noire is under 2 days
Ships avoiding attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea are sailing past the Cape of Good Hope. Neither Cape Town nor Durban have seen an uptick in ships docking to refuel.
One reason why ships bypass Durban is because of how congested it is. In mid-April, the average wait time was 4 days, according to Portcast, which tracks global shipping carriers.
The average wait time at Mombasa in Kenya or Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo is less than 2 days. In China’s Shanghai port, where 336 ships were waiting to dock between 15 and 21 April, the wait time was 1.1 days.
Mombasa and Pointe Noire have seen a marked increase in the number of ships docking. According to the Portcast dashboard, Point Noire’s vessel count rose from a 3-month average of 15 ships to 20 ships in one week in December 2023. Mombasa’s rose from an average of 15 vessels a week to 23.
— 15 May, 2024Subscribe to the weekly newsletter for more charts like this
