[Tribune] Maritime transport: behind the vertiginous surge in container costs
By Nicolas Clavel (photo), CIO, Scipion Capital Ltd and Edmund Fitzalan Howard, Analyste Intern, Scipion Capital LLP.
Over the last eighteen months, the global supply...
Reversal of Djibouti in London in its dispute with DP World
An arbitral tribunal of the International Court of Arbitration in London (“LCIA”) ruled on July 7, 2021 against the company Port de Djibouti SA...
DP World in the reconquest of Africa
After years of business characterized by trouble and scandals in Africa, DP World announced on July 8, 2021, its intention to acquire one of...
Nigeria overwhelmed by war risk insurance premium
Nigerian authorities are calling on the international maritime community to urgently end the war risk insurance premium currently charged on ships bound for their...
Tanzania plans to relaunch its $ 10 billion port project
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on June 26, 2021, her government's decision to restart talks on the implementation of several projects aimed at...
Conakry Terminal innovates with the launch of electronic payment
Conakry Terminal, a subsidiary of Bolloré Ports and operator of the Port Autonome de Conakry container terminal, has just launched new online payment solutions...
Cameroon: PAD ignores court decisions and continues to operate container terminal to the detriment...
The Autonomous Port of Douala (PAD) continues to manage the container terminal of the port of Douala regardless of court decisions which rather recognize...
ARISE IIP, this pan-African industrial developer behind PIA
Inaugurated on June 6 by the Togolese head of state, Faure Gnassingbé, the Adétikopé industrial platform (PIA) is a major milestone in the country's...
Mauritania: Dy Ould Zeine appointed Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Economy
Dy Ould Zeine, until then Minister of Rural Development of Mauritania, was appointed on Wednesday, May 26, Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Economy. He...
Bolloré Transport & Logistics Chad supports the education of 100 young girls
Bolloré Transport & Logistics Chad and the Christian Association for the Development of Education for Children in Need (ACDEED) signed on Monday May 17,...
Five new yard gantries reinforce volume growth at the port of Kribi
Kribi Conteneurs Terminal (KCT) received five new yard gantries on 10 May 2021. With a 50-tonne lifting capacity, the new equipment will further boost...
Handling: Bolloré Côte d´Ivoire achieves a profit of more than 13 billion FCFA in...
Bolloré Transports & Logistics Côte d'Ivoire, a subsidiary of the French multinational of the same name, posted an after-tax profit of CFAF 13.454 billion...
36 ELECTRIC TOWING VEHICLES ORDERED FOR THE SECOND CONTAINER TERMINAL IN THE PORT OF...
As part of the project on the second container terminal in the Port of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Terminal is announcing the order of 36...
The proceedings of the 12th general assembly of the UCCA opened in Kinshasa
The work of the 12th session of the general assembly of the Union of African Shippers' Councils (UCCA), in collaboration with the Office de...