{"id":9800,"date":"2016-04-19T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/04\/19\/bollores-west-african-port-contracts-investigated\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T10:40:00","slug":"bollores-west-african-port-contracts-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/africa\/bollores-west-african-port-contracts-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollore\u2019s West African port contracts investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is investigating whether Bollore\u2019s public relations subsidiary Havas offered services to the leaders of Guinea and Togo. This was in order to help it secure contracts to operate two terminals; Lome Port in 2010 and Conkary in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A Bollore statement, released on April 12, 2016 denied the allegations and announced it was only a minority shareholder in Havas.<\/p>\n<p>It stated: \u201cWith respect to its port activities, Bollor\u00e9 Group would like to stress that these are considerable investments, carried out in partnership with other large international groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey represent commitments extending over many tens of years and for which they are selected, exclusively, according to the amount and technical qualities of the investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bollore currently operated 14 container terminals in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bollore Group\u2019s head office was searched by French officials as part of an investigation into the company\u2019s port-operating contracts at two West African nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800","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=9800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9800"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}