Africa

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…