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Assab| Seaport in Eritrea situated on the west coast of the Red Sea; population (2002 est) 21,300. The oil refinery at Assab is the leading industrial enterprise in Eritrea, supplying local markets and Ethiopia. The town also has a salt works. A high proportion of Eritrea's trade is transit trade to Ethiopia and much of this passes through Assab, which is linked by a paved road to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The town also has a significant airfield. |
| Formerly an Italian trading station, in 1880 Assab was taken over by the Italian government from a private company and used as a coal station for shipping. The port facilities were greatly expanded in the early 1990s, with the construction of a new terminal. During the civil war and famine of the 1980s, food aid was brought to Eritrea and the Ethiopian province of Tigré through Assab. |
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| For tools that need to run a long time, buyers can specify harder steels, such as ASSAB 718 HH, a modified P-20 steel with a hardness between Rc 35 and 40. The port of Assab, owing to the shortage of trucks, has averaged only 1,900 tons per day and faces a bottle-neck in port off-take. In January, confirmed arrivals totalled 144,395 tons for Assab (with an estimated unloading capacity of 90,000 tons, and an offtake capacity of 53,000); 30,385 tons for Massawa (20,000-ton unloading capacity, 19,000 offtake capacity); and 20,262 tons for Djibouti (25,000-ton unloading capacity, 15,000-ton offtake capacity). |