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Bolloré Africa Logistics will upgrade the container terminal of the port of Freetown
the landing place in Sierra Leone will have a traffic ability pairs to 750 thousand teu
September 18, 2015
Wednesday the society Bolloré Africa Logistics of the French group Bolloré has signed with National the Harbour Authority of the Sierra Leone a contract for the extension of the container terminal of the port of Freetown. The project previews the construction by the French company of a new dock of 270 linear meters with a depth of the backdrop of -13 meters and the preparation of areas of total storage for 3,5 hectares, participations that will elevate the annual ability to traffic of the terminal to 750 thousand teu. The dock will be realized within three years and will be equipped with two crane ship-to-Shore and four cranes to portal with the objective to double the productivity of the system over four years.
The investment of the French group will pile to 120 million dollars. Bolloré Africa Logistics manages the container terminal African from 2011 within a contract of concession of the duration 20-year-old signed to end 2010 and 37 million dollars have up to now invested you.
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