Dominique Lafont, CEO of Bollore Africa Logistics, announced in Nairobi that the facility will help ease Ethiopia import and export needs through maritime transport system and open new income stream for the government of Somaliland. "We shall be setting the port up as the national port of Ethiopia," said Lafont. The port will be run under concession basis, which marks the company’s entry into the infrastructure concessions in East Africa. The company already manages the ports of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo. It also manages the rail lines of Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Cameroon. "We are interested in entering concession agreements for ports in East Africa and along the Indian Ocean but the challenge is that most of the ports are run by the governments." "We are keen to work along the development of transport systems within the East Africa Common Market," said Lafont. The company has a strong presence in East Africa and around 40 African countries through its logistics arm SVD Tansami.http://alturl.com/6hacn
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