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The port of Abidjan wants to regain its place as regional leader

2022-12-05T18:56:56.501Z


REPORT - The inauguration of a new terminal makes it possible to accommodate high tonnage ships directly from Asia.


On the brand new quay of the Côte d'Ivoire Terminal (CIT), the gigantic blue gantries catch the containers of the

moored

MSC Sonia .

In an aerial ballet, the colorful boxes twirl at the end of the cables to be placed on the electric trucks waiting below.

MSC

Sonia

is a "14,000 boxes", or in the jargon of logisticians, a ship capable of transporting 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent containers (TEUs).

Coming from Shanghai, she is the first ship of such size to dock in Abidjan: with her 16 meter draft - hear the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the keel - it was impossible for her to in November 2022, to cross the Vridi canal which leads ships from the ocean to the lagoon sheltering the port of Abidjan.

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"With this new terminal, Abidjan will be able to accommodate ships coming directly from Asia"

, rejoices Pierre Bellerose, director of Bolloré Côte d'Ivoire, concessionaire with APMT (subsidiary…

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Source: lefigaro

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