Management of Kribi Port

Bollore Logistics still a frontline contender
Contrary to reports by some local newspapers that the French consortium, Bollore Logistics, has been put out of the shortlist of contenders for the management of the container terminal of the Kribi Port, French Magazine, Jeune Afrique reported last week that the French multi-national is well on course to win the bid.
    According to Jeune Afrique’s edition No 2836 of 17-23 May 2015, Bollore Logistics is in the race and is competing with APMT (a filial of the Danish company Maersk) and ICTSI, a Philipino company.
    The authoritative French weekly magazine said the fight for who will have the licence to manage the container terminal of the port is intensifying by the day, especially as Yaounde authorities have not made the criteria for selection known.
    Apart from the container terminal, the companies are also tussling to be handed the management of the polyvalent terminal, Jeune Afrique said, noting that another foreign company, Necotrans/KPMO has also indicated its interest to be handed the management of this terminal.

    Jeune Afrique reported that the SG of the PM’s office, Louis Paul Motaze received the bidding documents of all the competing companies and has since forwarded them to the presidency for appreciation by President Biya.
    The paper reported that visibly dissatisfied with the report of the preliminary study done by Prime Minister, President Biya has ordered a re-examination of the application files.
    Sources say successive French envoys that have been received at the Etoudi Palace were all here to lobby President Biya to hand at least the container terminal of the Kribi Port to Bollore.
    But the sources also note that because of the perennial congestion at the Douala Port that is almost completely managed by the Bollore Group, President Biya is wary to hand the Kribi Port to the very powerful French business mogul.