It was all about loosening the suffocating economic and to some extent political grip of Bosaso over Puntland. Djibouti has a ship called the Africa Sun with an 1100 TEU capacity and 7 metre draught for feeding ports. That ship goes to Turkey, Djibouti and Berbera and Mogadishu I can see it landing here too.
What’s missing here is a road that connects to anywhere that can handle heavy container carrying traffic and other infrastructure.
What doesn’t bode well for new ports is when you see the likes of Lamu port not getting any traffic a year after being inaugurated.