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AFRICA

The Kenyan government has put together a committee that will oversee the privatisation of the container terminal at the port of Mombasa. However, the rest of the port will remain within public…

1st November 2006

MOMBASA PRIVATISATION TEAM

1st November 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Shippers, fed up with delays in container processing at Durban Container Terminal, have threatened to impose a surcharge. Just last month, an MOL ship was delayed by 200 hours, however the average…

1st November 2006

Durban shippers congestion despair

1st November 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Kalmar has agreed to merge the service business of its South African service partner African National Engineering into Kalmar Industries South Africa (Pty) Ltd, the local subsidiary company established earlier this year…

1st October 2006

Kalmar integrates South Africa operations

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Jurong International has been awarded a $70m contract to design and build a new deep water port at Luba Freeport in Equatorial Guinea by Lonrho Africa, which holds a 63% stake in…

1st October 2006

JURONG TO DESIGN NEW PORT IN GUINEA

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

West Africas ports are setting the commissioning pace for the continent as private operators prove their worth. Steve Cameron reports

1st October 2006

African sun spot

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Following 11 years of closure, Mogadishus international port has been reopened.However, it requires $1m of urgent repairs.

1st October 2006

MOGADISHU REOPENS

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Oil and gas revenues continue to stimulate investment up and down Africas western coast with Nigeria and Angola being the main beneficiaries.  

1st October 2006

Liquid gold keeps money pouring in.

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Despite concerns that South Africas port developments are being dragged out,large capital investments are planned for 2006 and 2007.  

1st October 2006

No let up in investment

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

After years of debate on privatisation, the South Africa Treasury has finally laid down some principles for proposed public/private partnerships.  

1st October 2006

PPP decision marks the start of new era

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Still with two months to go, it has already been quite a year for African concessions.  

1st October 2006

A year to remember

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

East Africas less frantic approach to port development belies the undercurrent of activity taking place

1st October 2006

A calmer pace

1st October 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Durban Port manager Basil Ndlovu has said that throughput growth of 16%18% annually over the last five years means that the proposed ¢ 1.72bn expansion into the Bayhead area of the port…

1st August 2006

Durban port expansion sorely needed

1st August 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Namibian Ports Authority is to invest € 58.79m in expanding capacity at its ports in Walvis Bay and Luderitz. Walvis Bay presently generates an annual throughput of 3.3m tonnes, which is equivalent…

1st August 2006

Namibia invests in expansion

1st August 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Hopes are that the port will serve Vietnam's future in global commerce.The Port of Mombasa, Kenya is to refurbish its berths 7-10. The port has called for tenders to this effect as…

1st June 2006

MOMBASA REFURBISH

1st June 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Arif Mohiuddin of CPCS Transcom charts the often rugged road to realising port privatisation in Nigeria

1st June 2006

Nigeria phase one privatisation complete

1st June 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

APM Terminals, CMA-CGM, DP World, ETA, ICTS, Gammon Infrastructure, IL&FS, GVK, Soma Enterprises and Concor are all interested in bidding. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is to provide funding…

1st June 2006

ZAMBIA TO GET NAMIBIAN DRY PORT

1st June 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

This will enable financial closure to take place for the first phase of the port project five years after it started operations in April 1999.Liberia's National Ports Authority (NPA) has asked Global…

1st April 2006

Liberia halts inland box terminal project

1st April 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is to cede management of terminals to concessionaires as from March 2006.

1st April 2006

Nigerian concessions finally taken up

1st April 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Luanda ports Strategic Plan of Modernisation covering the period 2006-2010 will result in investment totalling US$130m. This will help boost service provision and improve capacity. The plan, which was drawn up in…

1st April 2006

Luanda undertaking modernisation

1st April 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA 1st March 2006

SEZ for Aqaba

1st March 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

The shelved Ledeco project in Abidjan (see PS March and Oct 2004) would have provided solutions to all the problems raised above.

1st January 2006

The post-concession race: have they heard the gun?

1st January 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Chairman Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulayem said: "The only valid bid for P&O is from DP World.A consortium of terminal operators and shipping lines has been awarded a 30-year concession to operate the…

1st January 2006

Eurogate acquires Tanger 2

1st January 2006

AFRICA

AFRICA

Ghanas local stevedores association has appointed a lawyer to object to a concession granted to SDV and AP Moller to run the new Tema container terminal. The local stevedores say the procedure…

1st January 2006

Raising the roof in Tema

1st January 2006