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Inaugurated a new dock of the container terminal of the port of Lomé
Al Togo Terminal the traffic ability will go up per year to 1,2 million container
October 20, 2014
Last week in the port of Lomé the president of the Togo, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, and the president of the French group Bolloré Vincent Bolloré, to the presence of the heads of state of the Benin, Thomas Boni Yayi, and of the Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, African and the two new cranes ship-to-Shore have inaugurated a new dock of the container terminal managed from the Bolloré Africa Logistics in the harbour port of call of which he is equipped (to which three will join some to others) and that they have place side by side the six cranes you furnish currently operating in the terminal.
The work to Togo Terminal, that they have had beginning in March 2011, has carried to the construction of a third pier of 450 meters of length, with a depth of the -15 backdrop meters, that it elevates the line of total dock of the terminal to 920 meters. In the next weeks the work will continue with the realization of an earthwork of 38 hectares that will be equipped of crane to portal on rubber. To conclusion of the project the terminal African will per year have a traffic ability pairs to 1,2 million container teu.
Last year the traffic of the container enlivened from the port of Lomé has been pairs to 311 thousand teu, with an increment of +8% on 2012.
The Bolloré group will invest beyond 450 million euros in the container terminal of the port of Lomé for all the duration of the concession that is 35-year-old.
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