GROUPE BOLLORE COTE D'IVOIRE

Le groupe Bolloré Africa Logistiques croit en l'avenir de la Côte d'Ivoire et de son secteur maritime. Il continuera d'investir aussi bien sur le terminal à conteneurs que dans la ligne de chemin de fer. En tout, le montant de ses investissements sur la période 2010 à 2013 se chiffre à plus de 50 milliards de Fcfa dont 7 milliards pour l'acquisition de 8 Rtg, c'est-à-dire des équipements modernes de déchargement qui vont arriver d'ici mars prochain, sur le terminal à conteneur exploité par la Société d'exploitation du terminal d'Abidjan (Setv). "Ces équipements, a précisé M. Labarre, seront montés sur place", a-t-il ajouté. Aussi, profitant de son traditionnel déjeuner de fin d'année avec la presse, M. Lionel Labarre, Pdg de Bolloré Africa Logistics qui était face à la presse hier, a annoncé d'autres chantiers. Il s'agit entre autres, des travaux sur les quais 21 et 22 d'une part, et 6 autres portiques de quai. Par ailleurs, ce groupe a construit des silos à grains, pour mieux approvisionner les pays de l'Hinterland. "Nous entendons également embaucher 60 chauffeurs pour le fonctionnement des équipements qui vont arriver. En outre, nous allons construire à Abidjan un centre de formation pour nos conducteurs ivoiriens et de la sous-région. S'agissant de la Compagnie africaine de réparation de navire (Carena), disons qu'elle se porte beaucoup mieux et elle a renoué avec les bénéfices et est en train de payer ses dettes. Mieux, nous avons rempli facilement six mois de bons de commandes". Quant à la Sitarail, des investissements sont également annoncés. Pour le bonheur du Port d'Abidjan, qui va enregistrer cette année 23 millions de tonnes de marchandises dont 43% de produits pétroliers.
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APM/NIGERIA

The concessionaire of the Apapa Container Terminal, APM Terminals Apapa Limited, has spent about $179m on the acquisition of cargo handling equipment and infrastructure development at the terminal since it took over the management of the port in 2006.

Head of Public Communications, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mr. Chigbo Anichebe, said this was disclosed by the Managing Director of APMT, Mr. Martin Dirks, when members of the agency’s post-privatisation monitoring team visited the Apapa Container Terminal.

Anichebe said in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Monday, that Dirks also disclosed that cargo throughput had increased from about 280,000 in 2006, to about 545,000 in 2008, while the vessel turn round time had improved from about 170 hours in 2006 to 59.4 hours in 2009.

He had told the delegation, “Manpower development is critical to our success on the terminal. We are actively implementing the ‘Shadow Management Programme’ where local talents are supported and groomed into becoming successors to our out-going expatriates.”

On health, safety and environment record, the the managing director noted that the terminal had attained a record 236 days without lost time incident.

He said APM was working to ensure that Lagos became the shipping hub in the West and Central Africa sub regions, adding that of the 55 terminals operated by APM worldwide, Apapa was one of the three training hubs.

PORT SAN PEDRA COTE D IVOIRE

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Les meilleurs chargeurs, consignateurs, armateurs, exportateurs, coopératives, planteurs de la filière café-cacao ont été récompensés au cours d’une cérémonie récemment par le Port autonome de San Pedro. Le super prix est revenu à Cargill West Africa, multinationale qui a exporté le plus gros tonnage de fèves de cacao.

Cette cérémonie, dénommée les Awards, vise à récompenser, au titre des campagnes café-cacao écoulées allant d’octobre 2008 à septembre 2009, les meilleurs chargeurs et armateurs. Selon M. Désiré Dallo, Directeur général du Port de San Pedro, les lauréats sont des exportateurs et autres opérateurs économiques qui ont réalisé les plus gros volumes d’exportations ou qui ont atteint ou dépassé des contrats d’objectifs de performances signés avec sa structure.

Plusieurs prix ont été décernés. Des prix d’encouragement à la qualité du cacao transité par San Pedro sont revenus à l’exportateur Adm cocoa sifca, encadreur de la coopérative Uirecgo de Duékoué/Issia, à Cargill, encadreur de Coopaga de Gabéadji et d’autres coopératives d’exportations telles que Kavokivia de Daloa, Ucas de San Pedro.

Le 1er prix des chargeurs est revenu à Cargill devant Adm, 2ème, et Tnci, 3ème. Quant aux armateurs Delmas (Bolloré Africa Logistic), Safmarine (Maersks), Unicargo, ils ont reçu respectivement le 1er, le 2ème, le 3ème prix pour le volume de trafic traité. Saco, désigné 1er transformateur de fèves de cacao, a été nominé. Les prix de la fluidité routière et de la facilitation du processus de passage de la marchandise sont revenus aux Fds et à la Douane.

Les récipiendaires, par la voix de Méité Yacouba, Directeur de Cargill San Pedro, par ailleurs lauréat du prix d’excellence, ont remercié la direction du port avec l’assurance de maintenir le cap les années à venir. Avec la 2ème édition de la rentrée commerciale, parrainée par Bléhoué Aka, président du comité des sages de la filière café- cacao, la Direction du Port autonome de San Pedro procède ainsi au lancement de la campagne café-cacao 2009/2010.

DAR PORT TANZANIA

Tanzania is to invite more port container terminal operators after halting a 25-year exclusivity contract given to Tanzania International Container Terminal Services.

This ends a three-year public outcry over the Cabinet’s decision to grant 15 more years for TICTS to be the sole operator of the container terminal and cargo handling at the Dar es Salaam port.

It is expected that the open competition in the sector will attract more players, thereby enabling the harbour to increase its effectiveness through speedy container clearance, which has been a serious operational problem that has even threatened to divert importers to the Mombasa port.

The port is a transport hub for several landlocked countries in East and Southern Africa.

The government and Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) signed an addendum and memorandum of understanding to remove what lawmakers had termed the troublesome exclusivity clause from the TICTS contract that was said to have been extended from 10 to 25 years under dubious circumstances.

The Minister for Infrastructure Development, Dr Shukuru Kawambwa, said last week that the removal of the TICTS monopoly will increase efficiency, by allowing competition.

Dr Kawambwa said that this would in turn attract more business from landlocked countries that depend on the port for services and create more jobs.

The agreements were signed last week in Dar es Salaam by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure Development Omari Chambo, Tanzania Ports Authority Board chairman Raphael Mollel, a representative from Hutchicon Ports Holdings Wai Chau and TICTS chief executive officer Neville Bissett, witnessed by Dr Kawambwa and Deputy Minister for Finance, Omar Yussuf Mzee, on behalf of the Cabinet committee.

“The government wants to have more investors and those who will not be able to cope, are free to go,” he said adding that a number of investors had shown interest in investing at the port before negotiations to remove the clause began.

The road to negotiations for removing the clause was rough and uneasy, and at one time the government was about to give up and follow parliament’s directives to terminate the contract, but President Jakaya Kikwete demanded they continue with discussion, because early termination of the contract would mean massive losses for the government.

Tunisie : Un groupe koweitien et une société canadienne pour la gestion du port d’Enfidha !

Selon le site econostum, la Tunisie est en pourparlers avec deux opérateurs, une société Canadienne et un groupe du Moyen-Orient; pour gérer le futur port en eaux profondes d’Enfidha.

Ce port essentiellement tourné vers le trafic conteneurisé représente un investissement de 1,3 milliards d’euros et, d’après les estimations du ministère des Transports, prévoit un trafic de 5,4 millions de conteneurs EVP à horizon 2030.

A côté du terminal sera adossée une plate-forme logistique de 1 000 ha.
Les deux opérateurs seraient le groupe d'investissement koweitien Al Mal Investment Company KSC allié à Hutchison Port Holding, d’une part, et le groupe canadien SNC Lavalin, d’autre part.

Al Mal Investment Co, une entreprise du groupe Koweitien AL Kharafi, a indiqué qu'il comptait investir 2.2 mds$ (1,57 md€) en Tunisie, a rapporté le quotidien koweitien Al Watan.

Quand à Hutchison Port Holdings, c’est un leader mondial en matière d’investissement dans les ports. Il détient 49 ports dans 25 pays, au Moyen-Orient, en Afrique, en Europe, en Amérique et en Australie.
SNC-Lavalin, enfin, est l'un des plus grands groupes d'ingénierie et de construction au monde et un acteur majeur en matière de propriété d'infrastructures et de services d'exploitation et d'entretien.

acquisition of a next generation computer terminal,NAMIBIA

Namibian Ports Authority has made a N$13.5-million investment for the acquisition of a next generation computer terminal, Bisey Uirab, the Chief Executive Officer of NamPort has announced.

The acquisition of a state-of-the-art next generation container terminal operating system (NAVIS SPARCS N4) will see NamPort align itself with international standards in terms of providing a world-class service not only to importers and exporters, but also to shipping lines, ensuring that the port’s high productivity levels increasingly attract more shipping lines to call at the Port of Walvis Bay.

Uirab says the ever-increasing cargo volumes at Walvis Bay and in the Walvis Bay Corridors have prompted the decision to improve productivity as expected from a world-class port that handles container vessels.

Navis SPARCS N4 is a next generation container terminal operating system, specifically designed to offer good value.

“With this system in place, NamPort will enjoy benefits such as improved yard planning and control, enhanced vessel planning and control, as well as superior equipment control. It will enable NamPort to increase capacity, lower operating costs and improve customer service,” he added.

The strategic goals of the NAVIS SPARCS N4 implementation are increased terminal productivity by optimising vessel stow and dispatch as well as optimising container yard movements.

It will also optimise container movement to and from rail and tracking of gate transactions.

Meanwhile, Uirab said the new system would increase customer interaction through the use of EDI and WEB technology and manage reefer containers while tracking billing transactions and collecting metrics to measure growth and productivity.

“This means that NamPort will have a system that is very maintainable and adaptable over the entire life-cycle of the system while allowing NamPort the flexibility and scalability we need to run operations from a single terminal to multiple terminals across multiple geographic locations, all within a single system,” he added.

Uirab said continuous improvement of efficiency is part of NamPort’s strategic drive to increase the number of shipping lines at the Port of Walvis Bay and hence reduce the unit cost for sea freight and total logistics costs which will eventually reduce the cost of doing business in Namibia and the rest of the SADC region.

This is imperative for especially importers and exporters who serve SADC countries through the various Walvis Bay Corridors, he said.

Firm to fund Somalia's largest port

French company Bollore Africa Logistics is to invest €500-million in the Somali port of Berbera, a crucial lifeline for landlocked Ethiopia, a diplomat said Wednesday.

Berbera, less than 300 kilometres east of the former French colony of Djibouti, faces Yemen on the Gulf of Aden and is the economic capital of Somaliland, a breakaway state more stable than the rest of Somalia.

"Bollore is about to invest €500-million in Berbera port to improve the port and create a new corridor to the hinterland.

Ethiopia is very excited about that," a French diplomat based in Addis Ababa said.

"The project is not completely finalised, but Bollore has a huge presence in West Africa and is interested in East Africa," the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

The company is part of a group owned by Vincent Bollore, a leader in West Africa's ports sector and close friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Somalia has the longest coastline on the continent and forms the "horn" of Africa, which juts out into the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden and commands access to some of the world's busiest maritime trade routes.

Ethiopia has had good relations with the self-proclaimed government of Somaliland and is heavily reliant on the port of Berbera for supplies.

The Bollore group confirmed to AFP in Paris it was interested in the project but did not elaborate further.

"We have not made an offer yet and no amount has been agreed," a spokesperson said