Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum has completed his 48-hour working visit to Lomé. During this essentially economic trip, Mohamed Bazoum visited the facilities of the autonomous port of Lomé, one of Niger’s main import and export routes.
With our correspondent in Lomé, Peter Sassou Dogbe
This stay had a strong economic and commercial content. Mohamed Bazoum notably visited the autonomous port of Lomé, Niger’s main access route to the coast. The political authority and the investors took the opportunity to present the port platform to him. David Elbez, Director of Terminal Investment Limited (TiL): “ Togo is a land of welcome, a land of welcome to invest, a land of welcome to develop traffics and develops infrastructures superior to its needs. This allows a neighboring country like Niger to benefit from this reception capacity which is very important in the context of its industrial development. »
Powerful platform
Sign of the importance of the port of Lomé for Niger, in 2010, explained David Elbez, all the logistical flows for the oil exploitation of Diffa and the refinery of Zinder in Niger – some 7,000 trucks a year – passed through the port of Lomé.
It is therefore an efficient and ambitious platform presented by the Togolese Minister of Maritime Economy, Edem Kokou Tengue: “ The port of Lomé is ranked fourth in terms of container traffic in Africa and is 96th in the world in 2022. And by 2025, Togo aims to become the logistics hub par excellence of West Africa. “. Mohamed Bazoum returned to Niamey. Togo hopes that landlocked Niger will exploit the port of Lomé a little more after this visit.
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