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Port Elizabeth Port — South Africa

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

Port Elizabeth, South Africa is a SIP-class port in South Africa, tracked by IMF PortWatch with 1,886 vessels at last extraction.

1,886 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: 537
Dry bulk: 640
General cargo: 88
RoRo: 108
Tanker: 511

Share of South Africa maritime trade

Maritime imports: 16.64%
Maritime exports: 12.61%

Top industries served

  1. Petroleum, Chemical and Non-Metallic Mineral Products
  2. Mining and Quarrying
  3. Electrical and Machinery

Port record

Coordinates-33.9034N, 25.6226E
UN/LOCODEZA PLZ
Port classSIP
ContinentAfrica

Nearby high-activity ports in South Africa

Durban · 2,626Richards Bay · 1,696Cape Town · 1,007

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.