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APM Terminals. Bolloré and Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority will invest 1,5 billion dollars in the port of Topic
Today the president of the Ghana has signed an agreement in order to start the infrastructural potenziamento of the port of call
June 12, 2015
Today John Dramani Mahama, president of the Ghana, has signed an agreement in order to start the infrastructural potenziamento of the port of Topic through the construction of a new harbour area and the modernization of street infrastructures of connection. The investment, of the value of 1,5 billion dollars, will be realized by terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, from the Bolloré Africa Logistics of the French group Bolloré and from the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority in the within of joint venture Meridian Port Services (MPS), that Authority is participated with 30% from the Ghana Ports and Harbours and with 70% from the Meridian Port Holdings Ltd., in its turn joint venture joint between APM and Bolloré. The agreement at the end follows the subscription of a signed memorandum of understanding last year from MPS with the ghanese government ( on 21 November 2014).
The project includes the realization of a dam breakwater, four docks in deep waters and a channel of access in a position to making to journey the portacontainer of greater ability.
Last year the container terminal of the port of Topic, that it is managed by APM Terminals and Bolloré from 2004, has enlivened a traffic pairs to 651 thousand teu regarding 842 thousand teu totaled in 2013. The terminal for containers that will be realized in the new harbour area will have a annual ability to traffic pairs to 3,5 million teu.
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Today John Dramani Mahama, president of the Ghana, has signed an agreement in order to start the infrastructural potenziamento of the port of Topic through the construction of a new harbour area and the modernization of street infrastructures of connection. The investment, of the value of 1,5 billion dollars, will be realized by terminalista society Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, from the Bolloré Africa Logistics of the French group Bolloré and from the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority in the within of joint venture Meridian Port Services (MPS), that Authority is participated with 30% from the Ghana Ports and Harbours and with 70% from the Meridian Port Holdings Ltd., in its turn joint venture joint between APM and Bolloré. The agreement at the end follows the subscription of a signed memorandum of understanding last year from MPS with the ghanese government 
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