# Berbera Airport (BBO)

> Berbera, SO · IATA: BBO · ICAO: HCMI · Medium Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `BBO` |
| ICAO | `HCMI` |
| City | Berbera |
| Country | SO |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 9 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 10.38504, 44.93672 |

## Description

Berbera's strength is the meeting of sea and air: a 4,140-metre runway, one of Africa's longest, sits beside the DP World deep-water port and the 1,200-hectare Berbera Economic Zone. The UAE funded a $55 million rebuild for passengers and freight, reopened in 2021, and Somaliland declared the airport open for international trade in March 2025. The free zone offers serviced plots, pre-built warehouses and a common-user facility that DP World operates for customers' cargo. Where the port handles bulk and containers bound for Ethiopia's landlocked market, the airport adds time-critical capacity, with cargo and charter links to Addis Ababa planned. Air-freight volumes are still small, but the port-and-zone combination gives Berbera unusual ambition for its size. For shippers eyeing the Horn of Africa, it is a sea-air corridor in the making rather than a finished freight hub.

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