{"id":45,"date":"2018-03-28T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2018\/03\/28\/bollore-and-maersk-funded-abidjan-terminal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:41:50","slug":"bollore-and-maersk-funded-abidjan-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/africa\/bollore-and-maersk-funded-abidjan-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollore and Maersk-funded Abidjan terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deputy CEO of Bollore Transport and Logistics said work is expected to begin in summer 2019 and the new terminal should be operational from June 2020, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe start in June or July 2019,\u201d Philippe Labonne told Reuters. \u201cIt\u2019s a question of building a platform and setting up the port equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bollor\u00e9 Ports is a majority shareholder of the port\u2019s existing Abidjan Terminal, which it operates as a joint venture with Societe Exploitation Terminal de Vridi (SETV).<\/p>\n<p>Port authorities are already developing the canal leading to the port to a depth of 16m, to enable larger ships to dock, Mr Labonne reportedly commented.<\/p>\n<p>Located in Treichville, in southern Abidjan, Port of Abidjan is a major contributor to the economy of Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ivoirian Ministry of Economy and Finance, traffic through the port contributes to 90% of the customs revenues of Ivory Coast and 60% of the country&#8217;s income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A planned new container terminal at the Port of Abidjanbe will receive \u20ac400m from Bollore Group with additional investment from Maersk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}