Djibouti Ports, communications and transport network

 

Investment advantages:

Djibouti opens onto Aden Gulf and Bab El Mandab Strait on the Red Sea. Thanks to its strategic position, it represents a portal through which a large volume of world trade crosses. It is characterized by its openness to investments as well as to many tax and customs exemptions offered to investors. Indeed, the one stop shop for investments that includes 14 governmental bodies provides services to investors.

And thanks to its vital location on the sea, Djibouti is known for being a ports economy and a trade portal between Asia and Africa, as the services sector accounts for 80% of the GDP. In fact, there are 3 existing ports and 6 others under construction in partnership with China for a value of $US 2 billion. They will be dedicated to containers, livestock, salt, oil and potash. The capacity of the existing ports amounts to 10 million tons and it will increase after the new ports become operational so as to reach the equivalent of 2,5 million containers. There are also plans to develop the communications networks and the roads and railways to link the ports to neighboring countries. 

 

Gaps in the investment environment

 

Djibouti’s ranking in the World Bank indicators for ease of doing business for 2017 among 190 countries

Source: World Bank Doing Business 2017