The port of Abidjan shines during the 45th annual council of the Association of Ports Management of West and Central Africa.
by Blue Africa News
Port of Abidjan, under the stewardship of Director General Hien Yacouba Sie scooped two major awards during the recently concluded 45th annual council of the Association of Ports Management of West and Central Africa (4-7 November) in Pointe-Noire, Congo Brazzaville.
It won the best import traffic performance (volume) award 2024 with a national milestone traffic of 30,874,313 tonnes excluding shipping and transit, and the best transit traffic awards 2024, for an exceptional volume of 3,047,501 tonnes of goods exported to neighbouring countries.
“These performances illustrate the strategic vision, managerial rigor and collective dynamism that drive all the staff at the Port of Abidjan,” the port management said in a press statement.
“Under the drive of its Director General, the port is proving itself more than ever as a major logistics and industrial hub, the engine of national and subregional economic competitiveness.”
The latest recognition follows a series of past successes including being crowned the best traffic performance (import-export), best container traffic and best transit traffic awards winner at the previous edition of the annual awards gala.
Abubakar Dantsoho, president of the Port Management Association of West and Central Africa (PMAWCA) and Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) was represented at the event by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs and Spokesman of the Authority, Ikechukwu Onyemekara.
Through a speech delivered by Onyemekara, Dantsoho reiterated his vision for African collaboration for the continent’s greater good, adding that West and Central African ports are poised to face the future with confidence.
“Geographical interconnectedness and interdependence make cooperation a necessary precondition for collective advancement amid global dynamics,” he said.
He reminded the participants of the need to sustain partnership by heeding Henry Ford’s wisdom of “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Oliver Ochieng, Blue Africa News