Africa

Automation specialist APS Technology Group is to supply its Automated Gate System at APM Terminal’s Apapa, Nigeria hub to “streamline entry and exit of traffic over 18 lanes”. APM is investing in…

Durban is home to two of the region’s busiest container terminals – Durban Container Terminal and Pier 1. Transnet is currently re-engineering the port to increase capacity to 2.9m teu.

Tanzania Ports Authority has been ordered to find a competent investor to operate a second container terminal, which will end the current monopoly enjoyed by Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS).

As part of the National Commission for Privatisation (NCP) programme of port reform, the government of Sierra Leone has invited expressions of interest for a concession to run the Queen Elizabeth II…

APM Terminals Apapa terminal in Lagos has achieved a notable safety record: it went 200 days during which none of its 800 employees was injured, resulting in no lost working time. The…

Bolloré Africa Logistics has won a 25-year concession for the container terminal at the port of Cotonou (Benin). The operator aims to increase container traffic in Cotonou from the current 312,000 teu…

The Angolan Transport Minister, Augusto Tomá s, has announced a radical reform of the Merchant Marine and ports sector as a means of restructuring and modernising them. Management is to be improved…

Equatorial Guinea is instigating plans to double its existing port capacity to become a regional hub in West Africa. DP World has invested heavily in the country.