Africa

The revamped Terminal A at Port Harcourt in Nigeria is trying to attract traffic from importers in the south and southeast of the country who are currently using heavily congested ports in…

APM Terminals has written to Tanger-Med Special Agency announcing its intention to reschedule investment in Tanger-Med II.

HITT is to fit a E1m ($1.3m) vessel traffic system in the Angolese port of Lobito. The installation is to be completed this year.

Grimaldi Lines has alleged that cargo scanning services are non-existent at the port of Tin Can Island, where they are supposed to be carried out by Port and Terminal Multiservices Ltd.

The Port of Beira has issued a tender for emergency dredging of its access channel. All bids for the 8m cu m dredge must be received by April 15.

Bolloré Africa Logistics has expanded its terminal network in Africa by securing a 27-year concession to manage a container facility at the Port of Pointe Noire in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

South Africas Grindrod Group has unveiled its plans for the further development of the port of Maputo in Mozambique.

Senior managers at Nigerias Delta Port Authority have accused private-sector terminal operators Intels, AMS, Julius Berger and Green Leigh of not complying with the terms of their concession agreements at Warri port.

Tazanias Dar es Salaam port is today handling 50% more cargo than it was originally engineered to do. Government plans to build a new port at Bagamoyo and expand existing facilities at…

Ghanas Minister of Ports, Harbours and Railways has conceded that there is massive bribery, pilfering and corruption in the local ports industry.

APM has more than doubled the quayside capacity of its Apapa Container Terminal, the largest container facility in Nigeria, with the installation of four more gantry cranes.

Ports across western and southern Africa are finallyfacing up to the reality of modernisation in order to function as effectivecogs in what can be enormously long logistics chains, writes Alex Hughes

The government of Tanzania is to spend $112.8m in 2007-08 to improve facilities at Dar es Salaam port.

APM Terminals in Apapa Port in Nigeria has been accused of reducing the number of containers forwarded to bonded terminal operators in the area. This has resulted in many of them going…

Tanzanias prime minister recently made a surprise visit to Dar es Salaam port following increasing problems with congestion. He met with officials  and private terminal operators, after which he instructed both the…