# Rufisque (SN RQ2)

**UN/LOCODE:** SN RQ2  
**Country:** Senegal  
**Water Body:** North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 14.7000, -17.2833

Unlike a true cargo gateway, Rufisque east of Dakar is mainly an industrial town built around cement makers such as Sococim and Les Ciments du Sahel, with only a small open-roadstead anchorage. A cargo-pier depth of about 1.8 m severely limits direct vessel calls, and even heavy-lift and plant deliveries for the cement works are in practice handled through the nearby Port of Dakar and trucked onward. No container service or routine customs clearance is confirmed at Rufisque itself. Forwarders serving the greater Dakar area therefore rely on the well-equipped Autonomous Port of Dakar, about 25 km to the west.

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