Africa

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenya Ports Authority has decided to waive fees at Mombasa for 100 days, effectively acknowledging that high port charges and delays in collecting cargo have effectively brought the port to crisis point.

3rd February 2012

Mombasa waives fees

3rd February 2012

AFRICA

AFRICA

A strike by trade unions in Nigeria has effectively paralysed the countrys port terminals, costing the domestic maritime sector an estimated $223m.

20th January 2012

Nigerian strikes paralyse ports

20th January 2012

AFRICA

AFRICA

It appears that the general strikes in Nigeria are finally beginning to take a toll on the country’s seaports – because everything is now at a standstill, including at APMT’s terminal at…

12th January 2012

Nigerian ports struggle with strikes

12th January 2012

AFRICA

AFRICA

West Africa’s new largest container terminal, Terminal à Conteneur, developed and operated by DP World, has been offically opened in Senegal.

7th December 2011

New terminal inauguration in Senegal

7th December 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

The government of Angola has given the go-ahead for the construction of a new commercial port at Barra do Dande, in Bengo province.

2nd November 2011

New port for Angola

2nd November 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

The president of Cameroon has attended the stone laying ceremony for the new deepwater port at Kribi, 4 km south of Mboro.

21st October 2011

Kribi construction starts in Cameroon

21st October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Algerian government has issued a tender for a new port to be located between Algiers and Ténès, some 200 km to the east.

17th October 2011

Algerian sea port tender

17th October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Nigerian ports are making a move toward efficiency by finally kicking multiple government agencies off their premises.

14th October 2011

Agencies ordered out of Nigerian ports

14th October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Some 450 ports stevedores belonging to the Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Company downed tools in October, claiming that promises made to them over concerns raised in April had been reneged on.

14th October 2011

Dockers down tools at Al-Dekheila

14th October 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Dockworkers at the Eurogate terminal in the Moroccan port of Tanger-Med have gone on a six-day strike demanding similar pay and conditions to stevedores in the adjacent APM Terminals facility.

1st September 2011

First strikes at Tanger-Med

1st September 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

In todays market, those North African terminals with hub status carved out in transhipment will likely find themselves more stable than those with domestic pull.

31st August 2011

Off the transhipment seesaw

31st August 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

There remain a myriad of barriers to secure port investment in North Africa as Stevie Knight discovers

30th August 2011

Revolutionary spirit

30th August 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kenya Maritime Authority has described attempts by Maersk Line to implement additional charges for the handling of empty containers as unjustified and has asked for the surcharge to be withdrawn.

4th August 2011

Kenya asks Maersk to drop surcharges

4th August 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Nigerias Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, has confirmed that the activities of terminal concessionaires in teh country are to be investigated.

3rd August 2011

Nigeria accuses concessionaires of contract violations

3rd August 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

An application by the Mombasa Republican Council to stop Kenya Ports Authority going ahead with the privatisation of the port has failed.

28th July 2011

Mombasa privatisation hurdle overcome

28th July 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Mafika Mkwanazi, chairman of Transnet, has revealed that the organisation is considering building a new $14.5bn port in Durban.

2nd May 2011

Durban eyes $14.5bn expansion

2nd May 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

The $280m expansion plan at the Kenyan port of Mombasa could be under threat, if rumours of an investor cull prove true.

24th April 2011

Japanese marginalised at Mombasa

24th April 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Experts in Kenya are divided as to whether the port of Mombasa should be privatised or not.

31st March 2011

The sell-off quandary

31st March 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Containers apart, one sector of South African operations that does reasonably well is bulk, though even this has its ups and downs.

25th March 2011

A staple diet of bulk

25th March 2011

AFRICA

AFRICA

Tanzania Ports Authority plans to implement a $560m plan to build two new container terminals at the port of Dar es Salaam. These will add an additional 500,000 teu capacity to existing…

24th March 2011

Two new Dar es Salaam terminals

24th March 2011