The port can handle vessels up to 50,000 DWT.
The pilot brings to the ship expertise in handling large vessels in confined waterways and expert local knowledge of the port.
Frindsbury Basin could handle vessels to 300 tons.
Having the capability of handling fourth-generation vessels, the terminal is ranked among the top 100 container ports in the world.
It has two sophisticated class 100 ro-ro link span ramps facility capable of handling vessels with various ramp configurations.
Bishop Paget attended the opening and was said to have been moved by handling vessels he had used when he was a new priest.
The only other harbor, at Luderitz, is too shallow and undeveloped to handle vessels much larger than fishing boats.
It has three berths and can handle vessels of up to 39,999 gross tons.
Further the deepening works in port are carried out by a Malaysian company to handle bigger vessels.
This is large enough to handle ocean-going vessels ("salties") that must also pass through the smaller locks in the Welland Canal.