Author(s)

Che Kingsleychenikwi¹, Xuefeng Wang²

¹Institute of Scientific Research, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.
²College of Logistics Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China.

In this paper, a study on four African ports was taken out that all have the ca-pability to become a hub port that can serve the central African region. The paper sort to determine which port was most suitable and port indexing was the method that was used to evaluate these ports. The ports evaluated were the port of Kribi, the port of Bata, the port of Libreville and the port of Pointe-Noire. There were other models that were also used which included linear regression and linear programming which all contributed to providing the final results of the port with the most suitable potential to serve as a hub port and meaningful results were obtained. The final results showed that the port of Pointe-Noire was the most suitable port to serve the central African region as a hub port.

Hub Port, Kribi Port, Intermodal Network, Shipping Network, Logistics, Transhipment, Transportation, Indexing

Kingsleychenikwi, C. and Wang, X. (2018) The Hub Status and Transportation Network of Kribi Port. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 8, 226-270. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2018.86019.