ENAPOR (Empresa Nacional de Administração dos Portos, Portuguese for "National Company for Port Administration") is the Cape Verdean port authority.^[1] Its purpose is the administration, management and economic exploitation of the ports, terminals and zones of port jurisdiction of Cape Verde.^[2] It is a public limited company, 100% owned by the State of Cape Verde.^[3] Its current president is Jorge Pimenta Maurício.^[2] In 2017, 2,334,079 tonnes of cargo and 873,915 passengers were handled.^[4] The net income of ENAPOR was 187.8 million CVE in 2016.^[3]

ENAPOR was established on 19 June 1982 as the successor of the former Junta Autónoma dos Portos de Cabo Verde.^[1] In 2005 there were plans to privatize ENAPOR and at least two major ports.^[5] An international tender for the sub-concession of the four major ports was launched in 2015, but this was cancelled in 2017.^[6]

ENAPOR manages the following ports:^[7]

The two busiest ports are Porto Grande and Praia, each covering about 35% of the maritime cargo traffic of Cape Verde.^[4][8][9] Several ports have been expanded and modernized recently, including Praia (2014),^[10] Palmeira (2015)^[11] and Sal Rei (2015).^[12]

• List of ports in Cape Verde