Africa

Maputo Port Development Company has announced it is to invest $750m to increase its cargo handling capacity. By 2043, it hopes this will be 45m tonnes per annum, compared with the current…

Christopher Borha, the general manager of Nigerian Ports Authority responsible for corporate services and strategic planning, says that when Nigeria embarked upon its port concession program in 2006, it lost 10,000 either…

The Nigerian Port Industry Anti-Corruption Standing Committee has said that a new policy is needed to take on corruption at national ports.

The Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has pledged to improve security at both airports and sea ports across the country. To meet this promise, security and customs officials have been moved from existing…

South African ports operator Transnet is planning a $1bn bond issue early next year to fund infrastructure upgrades to include offloading 7,300 km of branch railway lines as private-sector concessions.

South Africa’s Transnet is said to be mulling a $1bn bond issue in international markets to help fund its capital expansion programme, according to local press. Reportedly, bonds off its global medium-term…

Matilda Parker, managing director of Liberias National Port Authority, has u-turned on her opposition to the $120m agreement signed between APM Terminals and the government.

Somali Ports Authority has been accused of misusing government revenue at the port of Mogadishu.

Maputo Port Development Company in Mozambique has had its concession agreement extended for an additional fifteen years, taking the contract to 2033.

Tanzania has offered Uganda land adjacent to the port of Tanga, which is close to the Kenyan border, to build its own import-export facility. At present, landlocked Uganda has to make use…

Construction of a $450m second container terminal at the port of Dar es Salaam is expected to begin early next year. Since 2004, box traffic at the port has grown by 15%…

APM Terminals claims to have uncovered fraud worth $153,000 involving six customs agents working at its Apapa terminal in Nigeria.

Nigerias Ministry of Transport has investigated claims put forward by the Joint Action Committee of Freight Forwarders that national ports are imposing illegal charges and found them to be true.

A strong case is being made in Kenya for construction of a second port in Lamu given current high levels of congestion at Mombasa.

An unprecedented coalition of organisations have joined forces to back a global e-petition demanding concrete action “to end the piracy that is putting lives at risk and threatening world trade”.