Africa – Page 18

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    Transnet unveils $4.3bn investment plan

    2012-04-26T21:23:00Z

    South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals has committed R33bn ($4.3bn) over the next seven years in port and rail capital projects until 2018/19.

  • Durban container terminal – set for a smooth upgrade?
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    Method behind Durban upgrade

    2012-04-10T16:19:00Z

    The draft scoping report for Transnet National Port Authority’s (TNPA) planned upgrade to Durban’s Pier 2 Container Terminal has been released in time for the public consultation due to take place this Thursday 12 April.

  • The Port of Luanda has benefitted from and ICD an container park
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    APMT focuses on African integration

    2012-03-20T17:51:00Z

    APMT has described a new model for West African transportation suggesting a shift away from "container lifts" towards “integrated container transport solutions”.

  • ICTSI are destined for Africa’s Lekki Port
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    ICTSI ink MoU at Lekki

    2012-03-15T16:31:00Z

    Lekki Port LFTZ Enterprise (LPLE) and International Container Services Inc. (ICTSI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the operation of the container terminal at the Tolaram Port@Lekki.

  • It’s back to normal for Sokhna Photo: DP World Sokhna
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    Strikes end at Sokhna

    2012-02-24T00:15:00Z

    The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has announced a victory over Egypt’s Sokhna Port and operators DP World following the recent strikes over pay.

  • The DMD 4020 bound for the Port of Djibouti
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    Djibouti's strategic move into maintenance

    2012-02-23T14:49:00Z

    The Port of Djibouti is looking to grow its revenue stream through a novel, modular dock that will provide repair and maintenance services for both the port authority’s fleet and other vessels.

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    Mombasa waives fees

    2012-02-03T12:22:00Z

    Kenya Ports Authority has decided to waive fees at Mombasa for 100 days, effectively acknowledging that high port charges and delays in collecting cargo have effectively brought the port to crisis point.

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    Nigerian strikes paralyse ports

    2012-01-20T16:29:00Z

    A strike by trade unions in Nigeria has effectively paralysed the country''s port terminals, costing the domestic maritime sector an estimated $223m.

  • Apapa is at a standstill
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    Nigerian ports struggle with strikes

    2012-01-12T16:56:00Z

    It appears that the general strikes in Nigeria are finally beginning to take a toll on the country’s seaports – because everything is now at a standstill, including at APMT’s terminal at Apapa.

  • HE Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal and HE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, chairman of DP World opened the Terminal à Conteneur
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    New terminal inauguration in Senegal

    2011-12-07T15:36:00Z

    West Africa’s new largest container terminal, Terminal à Conteneur, developed and operated by DP World, has been offically opened in Senegal.

  • Expansion is afoot in Tanzania
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    Tanzania to tackle Tanga congestion

    2011-12-01T20:24:00Z

    Tanzania Ports Authority is embarking on a huge expansion exercise at Tanga Port in order to meet forecasted traffic growth that will surpass 4m teu by 2028 and to ease current congestion.

  • News

    Tanger Med signs three-year agreement

    2011-12-01T20:22:00Z

    Several months of strikes at Tanger Med have come to an end following an agreement between port stevedores and terminal operator Eurokai Contship Italia.

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    New port for Angola

    2011-11-02T12:42:00Z

    The government of Angola has given the go-ahead for the construction of a new commercial port at Barra do Dande, in Bengo province.

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    Kribi construction starts in Cameroon

    2011-10-21T10:00:00Z

    The president of Cameroon has attended the stone laying ceremony for the new deepwater port at Kribi, 4 km south of Mboro.

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    Algerian sea port tender

    2011-10-17T10:00:00Z

    The Algerian government has issued a tender for a new port to be located between Algiers and Ténès, some 200 km to the east.

  • Apapa in Lagos, Nigeria has been subject to congestion and other problems springing from multiple agencies. Photo: Scenar308 Flickr
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    Agencies ordered out of Nigerian ports

    2011-10-14T17:56:00Z

    Nigerian ports are making a move toward efficiency by finally kicking multiple government agencies off their premises.

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    Dockers down tools at Al-Dekheila

    2011-10-14T17:44:00Z

    Some 450 ports stevedores belonging to the Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company downed tools in October, claiming that promises made to them over concerns raised in April had been reneged on.

  • News

    Grindrod issues Maputo shares

    2011-09-30T19:24:00Z

    Grindrod Ltd is to issue new shares to the value of $262m as a means of financing expansion of the coal terminal at the port of Maputo in Mozambique.

  • Kalmar cranes are moving into African ports
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    West African breakthrough for Kalmar

    2011-09-29T15:33:00Z

    An order from the French Bollore group means Cargotec’s cranes are now starting to move into the emerging African ports market, through Bollore’s wholly-owned Unicaf subsidiary.

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    First strikes at Tanger-Med

    2011-09-01T14:34:00Z

    Dockworkers at the Eurogate terminal in the Moroccan port of Tanger-Med have gone on a six-day strike demanding similar pay and conditions to stevedores in the adjacent APM Terminals facility.