Port of Mogadishu

The Port of Mogadishu, also known as the Mogadishu International Port, is the official seaport of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Classified as a major class port, it is the largest harbour in the country.Historical OverviewSince Roman centuries existed a commercial port called Sarapion in what is now modern Mogadishu. However, during the Middle Ages the port of Mogasdishu was very small and only with the arrival of the Italians in 1890 were made the first improvements in order to create a modern port. Since then the port has increased in capacity until now when it is the most important port of Somalia and one of the biggest in eastern Africa.Porto di MogadiscioThe port of Mogadishu was created as a modern port with magazines and docks in the late 1920s by the Italian government of Italian Somalia. In 1930 a protective dike with breakwaters was made in front of the enlarged port, that was connected to the Somalia interior by a railway and even by a new "imperial road" .The port of Italian Mogadiscio had an exportation in 1934 of 43.467 tons of agricultural products toward Italy and Europe. For this commercial transport were used the service of special container-ships called "RAMB" . The Ramb II was a banana boat based even in Mogadishu. Ramb II was the second of four sister ships all built to the same design: the other ships were the Ramb I, the Ramb III, and the Ramb IV. The four ships were built for the Royal Banana Monopoly Business to transport refrigerated bananas from Italian Somalia to Italy.