Port Sudan - Al-Merreikh Al-Thagher Players, Endurance Idahor, Sea Ports Corporation, Sudan, Lawrence Segawa, Hassan Mohamed, Port Sudan Refinery (Paperback)

Chapters: Al-Merreikh Al-Thagher Players, Endurance Idahor, Sea Ports Corporation, Sudan, Lawrence Segawa, Hassan Mohamed, Port Sudan Refinery. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Port Sudan - Post office in Port SudanPort Sudan was founded by the British in 1909 as the terminus of a rail line linking the Red Sea to the River Nile. It served as a new modern port to replace Sawakin. The railroad was used to transport the nation's cotton and sesame seed, as well as sorghum, from the agriculturally rich areas of the Nile valley to export markets. Minaret in Port SudanPort Sudan is known among tourists for its excellent scuba-diving and beaches. Tourists, as well as far larger numbers of Muslim pilgrims en route to undertake their once-in-a-lifetime Hajj to Mecca, use Port Sudan as a departure point to cross the Red Sea to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Warehouses in Port SudanThe harbour is in the mouth of a gulf continuing seaward through a coral-free channel 1826 meters (6085 ft) deep. Imports include machinery, vehicles, fuel oil, and building materials. Cotton, gum arabic, oilseeds, hides and skins, and senna are the chief exports. Port Sudan has an oil refinery to handle the petroleum from onshore wells, as well as an oil pipeline to Khartoum that was completed in 1977. A rail line links the Red Sea to the River Nile. The railroad was used to transport the nation's cotton and sesame seed from salt-evaporating pans. Port Sudan has a near-desert climate, requiring the acquisition of fresh water from Wadi Arba'at in the Red Sea Hills and from salt-evaporating pans. The population, mainly Arab, includes the indigenous Beja, West Africans, and small minorities of Asians (mainly Indians) and a handful of Europeans. The economic heart of Port Sudan is the con...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=213572