abstract:The Port of Djibouti is a port in Djibouti City, the capital of Djibouti. It is strategically located at the crossroads of one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, linking Europe, the Far East, the Horn of Africa and the Persian Gulf.
The dispute left South Sudan looking for alternative ways to transport its crude, including a possible route from Jonglei state through Ethiopia to the PortofDjibouti and a second one to the Kenyan portof Lamu.
Since falling out with Eritrea and the port-state ofDjibouti, Ethiopia, the region's landlocked superpower, has hit on Berbera as its easiest access to the sea.
Instead, food will have come through the overcrowded port in Djibouti, or else by way of Berbera, in Somaliland, and thence along a new road that stretches inland.