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In Recent years, few African ports have been receiving massive volumes of containers and are making investment to expand their ports to increase their overall capacities, such includes Nouakchott port in Mauritania, Tema port of Ghana, Dakar port of Senegal, Tangier port of Morocco and Abidjan port in Ivory Coast. The five ports had a positive evolution of containers handled and are making investments to further expand their ports infrastructures to make room for increased capacity. The purpose of this research is to measure the efficiency of these 5 African container ports for the year of 2017 and to find out if their expansion will give value for money. The tool used for the Efficiency Analysis is the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and making consideration of input orientation with different models (CCR, BCC, SE and SBM), using 4 inputs (berth length, water depth, number of gantry cranes, and capital cost) and 1 output (throughput in TEUs). Based on the efficiency results, the CCR results show that Abidjan port and Tangier port are fully efficient while Nouakchott port, Dakar port and Tema port are inefficient; the BCC results show that all ports are efficient when we evaluate the variable returns to scale; the SE result show that Tangier port ranked at the first of the efficiency results, Abidjan port ranked at the 2nd efficient port, For the inefficient ports Tema port ranked at 3rd, Dakar port at the 4th and Nouakchott port (PANPA) at the 5th; the SBM result showed that Tangier port and Abidjan port are fully efficient while Nouakchott port, Dakar port and Temaport are in efficient. The reason for these inefficient ports is due to inefficient operations like low throughput and poor management. The inefficient ports have a poor infrastructures and superstructures. Based on the efficiency result we can conclude that these 3 inefficient ports do not need to expand their port at the moment.
