Berbera
Proper noun
Meaning
Berbera
A coastal city in northern Somalia, known for its beaches.
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Examples
DP World has won a 30 year concession with an automatic 10 year extension for the management and development of a multi-purpose port project at Berbera, Republic of Somaliland.
Ethiopia over the past few years has also placed much attention on increasing the use of the Port of Berbera in Somaliland and the Kenya Port of Lamu to Ethiopia rail link is still in the planning.
The first exposure of a Navy Tomcat to a SA-2 missile was over Somalia in April 1983 when a local battery was unaware of two Tomcats scheduled for a TARPS mission in prelude to an upcoming international exercise in vicinity of Berbera.
UAE-based DP World is redeveloping Berbera Port on the Horn of Africa to accommodate modern supertankers, a development that could open northern Somalia — or Somaliland — to the large markets of neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya.
The Berbera Free Zone is being built on a three-phase basis: Phase zero, phase one, and phase two.
It is now Djibouti, PortSudan and Berbera ports that Ethiopia is buying stakes into.