Lomé, Togo, January 29, 2020//- Container traffic at the Port of Lome beat his own record of a year ago. This is the announcement made by Rear Admiral Fogan ADEGNON, CEO of the Port of Lomé, at the inaugural ceremony of the Open Days OWNERS Operating Company of Foreign Trade (SEGUCE) this Tuesday, January 28 2020 Lome.
If with performances amounting to just under 1.4 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU) recorded in 2018, the Lomé port platform clinching leading status in West and Central Africa, she did even better in 2019, with container traffic that crosses the bar 1, 5 million TEUs. Meanwhile, cargo traffic increased from 22.117 million tons to 22 tons 610 million.
These performances are recorded, according to the No. 1 port of Lomé, carried by the Single Window for Foreign Trade. Among other benefits, this tool centralizes in a single entry point, all information and all formalities related to foreign trade. With effect induced to, reduce the time and cost of the formalities in connection with foreign trade.
Since 2017, the Port of Lomé was credited with a series of positive ratings which were the top ranks of port platforms in Africa, sparking the interest of major investment projects.
Like Ammar Kanaan, new boss of Lomé Container Terminal (LCT) which announced an investment plan of 500 million euros (328 billion FCFA) to the port of Lomé with the objective to increase to 4 million containerized year that records traffic.
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