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APM Terminals is working with produce aggregation, packaging and retailing company Naija Pride and international development groups to provide modern cold chain transportation alternatives for farmers moving their goods from northern Nigeria to markets in Lagos.
It says that an estimated 15 million tonnes of Nigerian-grown perishable goods, including onions, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, okra, ginger and carrots, are lost annually due to poor logistics infrastructure and high transportation. Ongoing investments by ...
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APM Terminals Inland Services Africa has drawn up a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with The Government of Ghana and the non-profit organization Amend to improve safety on roads to and from its new port and logistics hub in Tema. At the signing ceremony in Denmark on 23 November, APM Terminals ...
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APM Terminals Cotonou commissioned two large mobile cranes in the Benin port at a ceremony presided over by Benin minister of transport, Hervé Hehomey. The new cranes will bring the terminal's operating total to five, and have a lifting capacity of 144 tons, making them the largest in the port area.
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Shipping a 40’ container from Shanghai to Mombasa costs less than US $1,000, but moving the same container 1,240 miles from Mombasa to Bujumbura, in Burundi, costs $7,000. And while the sea voyage from China to Kenya takes 28 days, the road journey from Kenya’s primary port into land-locked Burundi ...
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation has complained to the government of Jordan over the arrests on 14 October of around 150 trade unionists at the Aqaba Container Terminals facility run by APM Terminals. The port workers had begun a strike on 13 October which but strikebreakers were reportedly brought in ...
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Restoration of rail service to the port of Apapa in Lagos, Nigeria after a 16-year hiatus was marked by a ceremonial ribbon-cutting and the despatch of 20 containers from APM Terminals’ facility on 23 August. The ribbon was cut by Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) board chairman, Alhaji Kawu Baraje.
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President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf dedicated APM Terminals' new 600-meter quay at the Freeport of Monrovia on 22 May. The President noted that the quay was constructed to current industry standards the equal of any now operating around the world.
The new quay also paves the way for the next stages ...
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APM Terminals and Turkish-based Petkim have signed an agreement to build and operate Aegean Gateway Terminal (AGT), which will be one of Turkey’s largest container and general cargo terminal. It will be entirely operated by APM Terminals under a concession agreement with operations expected to start in summer 2015. Petkim’s ...
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APM Terminals the ports division of the Danish AP Moeller Group is to become a major shareholder of Global Ports, the leading operator of container terminals in the Russian market, achieving an equal partnership with N-trans.It is APM Terminals first move into Russia and the largest foreign direct investment in ...
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