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CMA CGM intends to invest in the port of Abidjan
the French group has confirmed the participation to the contest for the realization and management of according to container the terminal
July 5, 2012
CMA CGM will participate to the contest for the realization and management of according to container the terminal of the port of Abidjan. The intention of the French shipowning group to concur to the contract has been collection from the Reuters news agency in occasion of the encounter of the general manager of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé with the president of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, in the picture of a mission of a delegation of Mouvement DES entreprises de France (MEDEF) that yesterday it is received in the presidential palace of Abidjan to Plateau.
Saadé has confirmed to have manifested to Ouattara the will of the shipowning group to participate to the contest, that it is started by the Port Independent of Abidjan. The general manager of CMA CGM has specified that the previewed investment will pile to 200-250 million euros, with the objective to triple the ability to containerized trade of the port African being carried it to 2,3 million teu in 2016.
The container terminal of the port of Abidjan currently in exercise has a annual ability to traffic pairs to about 800 thousand teu and is operated by the SETV (Societé d' Exploitation du Terminal de Vridi), joint venture participated with 60% from the Bolloré Africa Logistics of the French group Bolloré and with 40% from the APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk.
According to how much declaring to Reuters from the general manager of the Port Independent of Abidjan, Hien Sié, to the contest, than will conclude next the 18 July, has up to now taken part about 20 shipowning companies included the same A.P. Møller-Mærsk, world leader of the containerized marine transport, and the second company of the field, the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).
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CMA CGM will participate to the contest for the realization and management of according to container the terminal of the port of Abidjan. The intention of the French shipowning group to concur to the contract has been collection from the Reuters news agency in occasion of the encounter of the general manager of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé with the president of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, in the picture of a mission of a delegation of Mouvement DES entreprises de France (MEDEF) that yesterday it is received in the presidential palace of Abidjan to Plateau.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
