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Cape Town Port — South Africa

Data refreshed 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z · quarterly refresh cycle

Cape Town, South Africa is a SIP-class port in South Africa, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 1,007 vessels at last extraction.

1,007 vessels tracked on the day of extraction

Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org).

Vessel composition by class

Shares below cover vessels with a reported class; the total also includes vessels without one.

Container: 534

Dry bulk: 108

General cargo: 177

RoRo: 7

Tanker: 180

Share of South Africa maritime trade

Maritime imports: 11.58%

Maritime exports: 5.33%

Top industries served

Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
Mining and Quarrying
Electrical and Machinery

Port record

Coordinates	-33.9154N, 18.4482E
UN/LOCODE	ZA CPT
Port class	SIP
Continent	Africa

Nearby high-activity ports in South Africa

Durban · 2,626 Port Elizabeth · 1,886 Richards Bay · 1,696

Data provenance

Source query: https://services9.arcgis.com/weJ1QsnbMYJlCHdG/arcgis/rest/services/PortWatch_ports/FeatureServer/1/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=%2A&f=json

Extracted 2026-10-11T20:35:08Z; field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer (geometry omitted). Field-subset of the published PortWatch ports layer; point geometry dropped, lat/long kept as attributes.

Port data — Sources: Kpler; UN Global Platform; IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org). Reused under the IMF Copyright & Usage terms. Fields subsetted (geometry omitted); see our data sources note. The IMF is not affiliated with and does not endorse ExportSonar.