Berbera Port Authority

Berbera is a seaport, with the only sheltered harbour on the south side of the Gulf of Aden; its population in 2000 was approximately 100,000. The weather of Berbera is very dry, hot and wet during the rainy season. The landscape around Berbera, along with Somalia's coastal lowlands, is desert or semi-desert where the temperatures in the summertime easily crack the 50°C mark. Most of the city residents are forced to seasonally migrate to the cooler inland cities during these hot times.

Berbera has a number of Ottoman buildings scattered around the city, mementos of the Ottoman occupation. Many of the buildings have never been entered and they have survived the bombings during the Siad Barre regime.

Berbera is the terminus of roads from Hargeisa and Burco, and an airport now adds to its accessibility. Berbera exports sheep, gum arabic,frankincense, and myrrh. Its seaborne trade is chiefly with Aden in Yemen 240 km/150 mi to the north. Prior to the Somali civil war, Berbera was home to a small naval port that was built by the Soviets, then later used by the Americans. This is now part of the commercial port.

With a limited time the new administration announced to manage the international port in Berbera has commenced to improve many parts of the port like the technical needed to manage the service offered by the port, as this is connected the experience and the vision of the Manager of the Berbera Port Ahmed Yusuf Dirir, while construction and improvements is taking place on daily basis, so this is part of developing the different services that the port offers.

Recent days 85% of the port’s service has increased, apart from the local commercial export and imports, this has come in to focus the neighboring country Ethiopia to use as main port turning the previous ports like Djibouti and Sudan Also, Berbera Port Authority has repaired the place used to put the commodities that nearly to fall down after a long time built by the Russian government.