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Inaugurated a new harbour dock of 600 meters to the Freeport di Monrovia
the Liberian port is managed by terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals
May 28, 2013
22nd May the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has inaugurated a new harbour dock of 600 meters in the port Freeport di Monrovia that is managed by terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk ( on 14 October 2010).
In the course of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ceremony it has emphasized the success of the agreement tightened in 2010 with APM Terminals, in spite of the critics who the allocation of the contract of concession of the duration 25-year-old to the Dutch private company has provoked in Liberia also between the representatives of the National Port Authority (NPA), and has wished that such collaboration can be extensive to other areas of activity in the port of Monrovia, between which the restructure of the street connections with the port.
In charge of APM Terminals for the implementation of the project, Soren Jakobsen, it has remembered that the terminalista society will invest about 120 million dollars in the arc of the 25 years of management of the Liberian port. Jakobsen has specified that, beyond demanded how much from the concession agreement, APM Terminals will invest other 25 million dollars in order to upgrade the harbour infrastructures and structures and for activity in the field of safety.
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