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Leading asset manager Meridiam teams up with Olam on African ports

Without waiting for the financing of the extension to the port of Nouakchott to be finalised last week, the investment firm Meridiam and Singapore's Olam started works two months ago. [...]

Published on 25/09/2019 at 04:30 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Arise Mauritanie
Egis
Gabon Special Economic Zone
Gagan Gupta
Hilaire Courau
Meridiam
Meridiam Infrastructure Africa Fund
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
Olam
Olam Gabon
Thierry Deau

Mauritania
Orascom in the running for Nouadhibou port contract

Egypt's Orascom Construction is in the running to build the deepwater port of Nouadhibou in Mauritania.

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Africa
Meridiam prepares its new fund for Africa

Meridiam is putting together its next fund for Africa, which has to be approved by the financial markets authority (AMF) by the end of the year.

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Africa, Gabon
Olam chooses Port Louis over London to registrer its Arise Infrastructure fund

While Olam set up its first fund, Arise Ports & Logistics, in London, from where its partner, AP Moeller Capital, runs its operations, the agribusiness giant has chosen Mauritius's more welcoming fiscal landscape for its second and third funds, Arise Infrastructure and Arise Special Economic Zone.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance, Business 31.08.2020

Mauritania
Arise given notice to quit its offices in the port of Nouakchott

Port Autonome de Nouakchott (PAN) director Sid'Ahmed Ould Raiss has told the Franco-Singaporean joint venture Arise, which is currently building the port's new container terminal, that he has decided to terminate the lease on its premises at the port.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 18.05.2020

Mauritania
Arise caught in crosswinds over Nouakchott port project

Already the target of a parliamentary enquiry, Arise Mauritanie, the joint venture that is now building and is later supposed to operate Nouakchott's new container terminal, is also firmly in the sights of the head of the city's port complex.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Finance, Politics 16.04.2020

Gabon
Olam pushes ahead with its withdrawal

Having set up in very short order the holding company Arise P&L, which has taken over its investments in the ports of Gabon, Olam is poised to do likewise in the transport sector.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 01.04.2020

West Africa
Olam anxious over inquiry into Nouakchott port

Having just signed off on its joint venture deal with Denmark's AP Moller Capital, Olam is having to face a parliamentary commission of inquiry in Mauritania.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 18.03.2020

Gabon
A new brief for Lazard?

The coordination unit in the Gabonese president's office is currently [...]

Subscribers only Finance, Business 04.03.2020

Gabon
State cedes its port shares to Olam and AP Moller

Last week, Olam and the fund manager AP Moller Capital, an offshoot of the Danish container logistics company AP Moller-Maersk, [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.02.2020

Gabon
Sinohydro back on Meridiam's payroll

The infrastructure firm Meridiam has selected Sinohydro to build the Kinguélé dam, for which it has the concession. The Chinese firm has longstanding ties with the presidential family.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 20.11.2019

Spotlight | Central Africa, West Africa
Airports spark intense international rivalries

At a time when many African capitals are constructing new airports to ease congestion around urban centres, such projects are giving rise to intense rivalry between new and established powers on the continent, all against a backdrop of growing sub-regional [.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 29.05.2019

Extension of Diori-Hamani airport in Niamey, built and run by Turkish group Summa.

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Hilaire Courau
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Meridiam Infrastructure Africa Fund
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
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Thierry Deau

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

West Africa
Leading asset manager Meridiam teams up with Olam on African ports

Mauritania
Orascom in the running for Nouadhibou port contract

Africa
Meridiam prepares its new fund for Africa

Africa, Gabon
Olam chooses Port Louis over London to registrer its Arise Infrastructure fund

Mauritania
Arise given notice to quit its offices in the port of Nouakchott

Mauritania
Arise caught in crosswinds over Nouakchott port project

Gabon
Olam pushes ahead with its withdrawal

West Africa
Olam anxious over inquiry into Nouakchott port

Gabon
A new brief for Lazard?

Gabon
State cedes its port shares to Olam and AP Moller

Gabon
Sinohydro back on Meridiam's payroll

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Airports spark intense international rivalries

Mauritania
Olam prepares to sail into Nouakchott port

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