Bolloré under investigation
NewsFrench prosecutors are investigating port terminal concessions won by Bolloré Group in Lomé in Togo and Conakry in Guinea in 2010 and 2011...
Bolloré Transport & Logistics established
NewsThe Paris-based Bolloré Group has restructured and grouped all of its freight logistics, port management and energy activities, comprising ...
Ethiopia signs transit deal with Berbera
NewsThe governments of Ethiopia and Somaliland have entered into an agreement that will result in some of the former country’s imports and exp...
Cape Verde for BAL?
NewsBolloré 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
NewsPorts 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
NewsGeftarail 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
NewsBolloré 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
NewsKonecranes 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
NewsThe governments of Benin and Niger have signed an agreement with Bolloré for the development of a new railway...
Kribi concession awarded
NewsThe consortium formed by French companies CMA CGM and Bolloré and China Harbour Engineering Company have won the 25 years concession....
Nigeria’s port plans move ahead
NewsNigeria is planning large new ports for the Lagos and Calabar areas, while existing terminals are being modernised in order to integrate int...
West Africa coming of age
NewsHuge 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...
MPS in US$1.5B Ghana project
NewsMeridian Port Services will invest in a new port at Tema, Ghana, with a capacity of 3.5M TEU....
Kribi cuts shortlist down to two
NewsThe 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
NewsNigeria’s federal government has set up a special committee to address the challenges facing the country’s main ports and to come up wit...