Port of Doraleh the Chinese Navy, which has a base on the western edge of the port. All of the terminals have direct access to the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, which provides landlocked Ethiopia with railroad access to the sea. In 2016, 914,300 containers passed through the port of Doraleh. The Doraleh container terminal became April 17, 2012 the second port in Africa to have equipment to detect nuclear and radioactive materials after the one in Mombasa (Kenya). Funded by the US government for an amount estimated between 8 and 10 million dollars, these sophisticated equipment designed for better control of containers. Each container
Mombasa Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent and China. 16th-century Portuguese voyager Duarte Barbosa claimed, "[Mombasa] is a place of great traffic and has a good harbour in which there are always moored small craft of many kinds and also great ships, both of which are bound from Sofala and others which come from Cambay and Melinde and others which sail to the island of Zanzibar." Vasco da Gama was the first known European to visit Mombasa, receiving a chilly reception in 1498. Two years later, the town was sacked by the Portuguese. In 1502, the sultanate became independent from Kilwa Kisiwani and