Necotrans as contender for Kribi port management

The French Necotrans group is contending for the logistics management at Kribi’s deepwater port, after it issued a tender to the committee responsible for the multipurpose container terminal managing group.

Necotrans’ main rivals for the management of the port terminal is the Philippine ICTSI and the French-Danish APMT (Maersk) which is managing logistics at the Douala port where 90 percent of goods to Cameroon are assembled.

The announcement comes as Necotrans a week earlier tendered a bid for the Kribi container terminal, confirming its strategy to focus on global logistics.

The French firm underlined its ambitions for the continent after winning the bid to manage the freight terminal in Dakar (Senegal) and the Brazzaville river port (Congo) in May 2014.

Necotrans group and its French counterpart Bollore are in competition for logistics management bids in many Central and West Africa ports including Abidjan port in Cote d’Ivoire, where both companies are in court, the former objecting to the choice of the latter in connection with offers by one and the other.