Cameroon says Bollore wins contract for Kribi container port
By: Reuters | Aug 27 2015 at 01:50 PM | Ports & Terminals
YAOUNDE - A consortium led by France’s Bollore has been awarded the contract to develop and operate a container terminal in Cameroon’s deep-water port of Kribi, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Thursday.
That marked a dramatic turnaround after Cameroon in April had excluded Bollore’s group from a shortlist of consortia competing to manage the port.
Bollore’s consortium included France’s CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipper, and China’s CHEC, which built the Kribi deep-sea port. No details of the winning bid were released.
The government is rushing to get Kribi port operational to ease congestion on Douala.