Tag: Shipping
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🇨🇲 Cameroon’s Kribi Port Invests CFA21.5 Billion to Increase Container Terminal Capacity by 30%
Cameroon’s Kribi Container Terminal has begun a reported CFA21.5 billion expansion that will add eight hectares and increase container-handling capacity by approximately 30%, with completion targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027. The investment is designed to support rising trade volumes and potential cargo generated by a planned industrial zone near the deepwater port.
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🇪🇷 Eritrea’s Red Sea Moment: How the Iran War Is Bringing a Once-Isolated Nation Into the Geopolitical Spotlight
Eritrea is emerging from decades of international isolation as the Iran war increases the strategic importance of the Red Sea. With roughly 1,000 kilometers of coastline, access to Massawa and Assab, and growing tensions with Ethiopia, Asmara is gaining new geopolitical significance at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and global maritime trade.
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🇯🇲 Ghana–Jamaica Trade Push Revives Bauxite Link and Opens New Atlantic Commercial Corridor
Accra/Kingston — Ghana and Jamaica are moving to turn decades of Pan-African solidarity into a more concrete economic partnership, with bauxite and aluminium, shipping, ports, investment, health, aviation and agriculture emerging as key areas of cooperation. The renewed relationship gained momentum in 2026 following the resumption of the Ghana–Jamaica Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC)…