
The World Bank’s port efficiency ranking presented in 2026 demonstrates a significant competitive advantage for the infrastructure of the Canary Islands when compared to the African environment. The Port of Las Palmas ranks at the forefront of this logistics axis in 5th place in the region (113th globally). Meanwhile, the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, despite being situated in a mid-low global ranking at 232nd, achieves 13th place in the African context.
Here you have the complete classification in the form of an ordered list, maintaining the Canary ports integrated in their corresponding positions according to their performance indices:
- Port of Tangier Med, Morocco (6th globally)
- Port Said, Egypt (15th)
- Djibouti (53rd)
- Damietta, Egypt (105th)
- Port of Las Palmas (PANPA), Canary Islands (113th)
- El Sokhna, Egypt (115th)
- Mogadishu, Somalia (127th)
- Dakar, Senegal (144th)
- El Dekheila, Egypt (179th)
- San Pedro, Ivory Coast (211th)
- Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (222nd)
- Toamasina, Madagascar (225th)
- Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands (232nd)
- Rades, Tunisia (238th)
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (255th)
- Lobito, Angola (256th)
- Onne, Nigeria (259th)
- Annaba, Algeria (270th)
- Maputo, Mozambique (273rd)
- Agadir, Morocco (279th)
- Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (285th)
- Qasr Ahmed, Libya (286th)
- Port Victoria, Seychelles (287th)
- Bata, Equatorial Guinea (293rd)
- Alexandria, Egypt (299th)
- Owendo, Gabon (300th)
- Nouakchott, Mauritania (304th)
- Khoms, Libya (308th)
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa (314th)
- Beira, Mozambique (315th)
- Tin Can Island, Nigeria (318th)
- Lagos, Nigeria (320th)
- Cotonou, Benin (324th)
- Freetown, Sierra Leone (330th)
- Banjul, Gambia (337th)
- Lamu, Kenya (345th)
- Lomé, Togo (347th)
- Lekki, Nigeria (353rd)
- Nacala, Mozambique (356th)
- Monrovia, Liberia (360th)
- Casablanca, Morocco (365th)
- Port Louis, Mauritius (369th)
- Douala, Cameroon (370th)
- Walvis Bay, Namibia (372nd)
- Tema, Ghana (376th)
- Algiers, Algeria (379th)
- Ngqura, South Africa (380th)
- Abidjan, Ivory Coast (381st)
- Béjaïa, Algeria (388th)
- Luanda, Angola (390th)
- Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo (391st)
- Kribi, Cameroon (395th)
- Mombasa, Kenya (396th)
- Durban, South Africa (398th)
- Conakry, Guinea (399th)
- Cape Town, South Africa (400th)







