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Construction

Mota-Engil Invests in Liebherr Excavators for Kano-Maradi Railway Project

In a landmark deal valued at approximately USD 1.8 billion, Mota-Engil has embarked on constructing the Kano-Maradi railway line, its largest project to date. This 284-kilometer railway will link the…

Heavy lifting

Sarens Partners with Transportes Lalgy Lda

Sarens has joined forces with Mozambique-based Transportes Lalgy Lda in a landmark agreement. This partnership aims to meet Mozambique’s growing demand for crane rental, heavy lifting, and specialized transport services…

Energy

VINCI Energies and Senelec Ink €200 Million Deal for Senegal’s Energy Infrastructure

VINCI Energies and Senegal’s national electricity company, Senelec, have joined forces in a €200 million contract aimed at constructing crucial electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure. Over the next three years,…

Terminals

Port of Malindi Welcomes Inaugural Operations of Zanzibar Multipurpose Terminal

Zanzibar Multipurpose Terminal (ZMT), a subsidiary of AGL (Africa Global Logistics), initiated operations at the Malindi port on September 18, 2023. To mark this occasion, ZMT welcomed the container ship…

Lifting

Sarens Helps Build Africa’s Tallest Bridge in Cairo

Sarens has played a pivotal role in the construction of what is set to become one of Africa’s highest bridges, the Al Hadarat Bridge in Cairo. Over the course of…

Transport

AGL Egypt Delivers Massive Cargo

AGL Egypt has announced the completion of a monumental cargo delivery to one of its valued Egyptian clients’ sites. The operation involved the meticulous transportation of a cargo, measuring an…

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Logistics

AGL: Driving Sustainable Transformation in Africa

Africa Global Logistics (AGL), formerly known as Bolloré Africa Logistics, has announced its rebranding. The company has positioned itself as one of the key players in the sustainable transformation of…

Shipping

Bahri and Suez Canal Authority to establish joint venture

Bahri, the national shipping company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has taken steps to expand its regional cooperation and strengthen its global position. In pursuit of these objectives, Bahri…

Africa

Chapman Freeborn expands Africa operations

Chapman Freeborn has expanded its team in Africa by three times due to a 30 percent increase in cargo revenues in the region from 2021 to 2023. This growth comes…

Acquisitions

Magna Tyres acquires South African Tirepoint

Magna Tyres Group expands globally with the purchase of Tirepoint, one of South Africa’s largest tire dealers. Established in 2004, Tirepoint operates in Gauteng, KZN, and Western Cape and has…

Energy

The FPSO for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project has begun its voyage 

The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project, operated by BP, has begun its voyage to the project location in the waters off…

Africa

Egypt’s first Potain MCR 295 cranes erected for Maspero Triangle project

IDP, Egyptian Potain dealer, has erected and commissioned the country’s first two Potain MCR 295 luffing jib tower cranes to help contactor Orascom Construction develop the Maspero Triangle district in…

Africa

New partner in Africa for Terex Rough Terrain Cranes

Terex Rough Terrain Cranes has announced a new partnership with African company Goscor Access Solutions. Well-established in South Africa, including branches in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, Goscor…

Africa

Bp ships first LNG cargo from Mozambique

bp has loaded the first LNG cargo from Mozambique’s offshore Coral Sul FLNG facility, the country’s first LNG project and first floating LNG facility ever deployed in the deep waters of the African…

Africa

The new container terminal in the Port of Abidjan has been launched

Côte d’Ivoire Terminal officially launched the commercial activities of the new container terminal of the port of Abidjan, with the arrival of the CMA CGM Rossini vessel, measuring 267 m…

Africa

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Côte d’Ivoire acquires first simulator

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Côte d’Ivoire has announced the acquisition of its first driving simulator which will be made available to its Pan-African port training center (CFPP) located in Abidjan.…

Africa

Timor Port receives equipment to handle large-capacity ships

Timor Port has received two two tugs, two STS gantries and four RTG gantry cranes for the Tibar Bay deep sea port concession. The delivery was made on a semi-…

Africa

Antonov Airlines flies power plant components to Nigeria

Antonov Airlines working with Chapman Freeborn Germany has completed three AN-124-100 flights to transport a new mobile gas power plant generator and associated equipment from Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Kano, Nigeria.…

Access platforms

Haulotte appoints Matech as authorised distributor in Tunisia

Matech is now in charge of the distribution of all Haulotte aerial work platform ranges and after-sales service in Tunisia. This partnership will allow Haulotte Africa to offer an optimal…

Africa

Bolloré Logistics involved in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project

Bolloré Logistics has been awarded a contract for the Main Logistics Contractor Services (MLC) for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project.  The EACOP project will construct a 1,443…

Africa

Sarens transports 4,500-year-old sun barque in Egypt

Sarens has recently relocated the Pharaoh Cheops’ ship from the Khufu Boat Museum to its new location at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo located ten kilometres away. Relocating a…

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