Bolloré under investigation

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French prosecutors are investigating port terminal concessions won by Bolloré Group in Lomé in Togo and Conakry in Guinea in 2010 and 2011...

Cape Verde for BAL?

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Bolloré Africa Logistics (BAL) looks set to win a concession to operate four ports in Cape Verde after it was announced that it was the onl...

Going west and coming up

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Ports in West Africa face tremendous pressure from rapid ly rising trade volumes, but existing facilities are being upgraded and new ports a...

Legal challenge in West African rail

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Geftarail has gone to court to block the development of the new railway between Bénin and Niger by Bolloré Africa Logistics...

Freetown expansion deal for BAL

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Bolloré Africa Logistics (BAL) has signed a contract with the government of Sierra Leone to expand the Port of Freetown. The announcement c...

RTGs for Bolloré

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Konecranes has reported that in July it received another order for RTGs from Bolloré Group. This time around, 13 RTGs will be delivered dur...

West African railway deal

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The governments of Benin and Niger have signed an agreement with Bolloré for the development of a new railway...

Kribi concession awarded

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The consortium formed by French companies CMA CGM and Bolloré and China Harbour Engineering Company have won the 25 years concession....

West Africa coming of age

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Huge sums of money are being ploughed into West Africa’s ports, and not before time, but will a regional hub on this part of the continent...

Nigeria’s port plans move ahead

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Nigeria is planning large new ports for the Lagos and Calabar areas, while existing terminals are being modernised in order to integrate int...

MPS in US$1.5B Ghana project

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Meridian Port Services will invest in a new port at Tema, Ghana, with a capacity of 3.5M TEU....

Kribi cuts shortlist down to two

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The number of bidders for the concession to operate the container terminal at the Cameroonian port of Kribi has been reduced to two, after t...

Nigeria to address port efficiency

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Nigeria’s federal government has set up a special committee to address the challenges facing the country’s main ports and to come up wit...

Deal agreed on Tema

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The government of Ghana has announced that it has approved the construction of the new container terminal at the Port of Tema...

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