The need for improved port call performance in African ports is way overdue as none of the African sea ports appear on the top 100 sea ports in the World as presented by the Lloyds list. The performance of ports greatly serves and benefits various stakeholders besides the country in which they belong. These stakeholders do include but not limited to third-party logistics providers, vessel/ship owners etc hence the need to improve port call performance is critical. There is not much studies available that tackle the issue of port call performance a hence creating a gap which this study opted to fill and contribute towards the assessment of Africa maritime trade contributors port call performance as most of the ports in Africa are deemed not efficient. Hence this analysis aimed at analyzing the performance of African top ten leading countries that contribute to the global maritime trade and later combine both African countries and the world’s top ten leading maritime trading countries as a benchmark to establish an improvement strategy from which low performing DMUs in the analysis were to borrow a leaf from. Having conducted the study, some African countries came out to be more performing. A few adjustments are to be made for them to improve their port call performance. However, their performance was still above average in comparison to the world’s leading countries that posed as benchmark and a standard port call performance operation strategy.

Ⅰ. Introduction
    1. Analysis Background
    2. Aims of the Study
Ⅱ. Literature Review
    1. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
    2. Port call Efficiency or Port call Performance
Ⅲ. Survey
    1. Conceptual Framework and Measures
    2. Data Envelopment Models
    3. Analysis Data and Variables
Ⅳ. Analysis Results
    1. Results on CCR Input Model
    2. Variable Returns to Scale Results on BCC Input Model
    3. Scale Efficiency Model (SE)
    4. Slack Based Ranking (SBM) Model
Ⅴ. Conclusion
    1. CCR Input, BCC Input Analysis Conclusions for African top ten Maritime TradeContributors
    2. Scale Efficiency and Slack Based ranking Model Analysis Conclusions for Africantop ten Maritime Trade Contributors
    3. Output Improvement Reference Models for low performing Maritime TradeContributors

• Kondwani Thokozile Kamchacha(Student, Graduate School of Tongmyeong University, Republic of Korea)
• Jeong Kyun Woo(Professor, Department of International Trade and Logistics, Tongmyeong University Republic of Korea)