News / West African shippers forced to gamble as port reliability fails to improve

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The extremely poor chances of a container arriving reliably at its African import destination are no better than they were three years ago, according to a new study. This is particularly true via West African gateway ports, which, it said, “have seen no real material improvement”.

“Despite modest gains reported in the first three months of 2015, overall reliability to and from the (African) continent is still far from optimal,” said the co-author of the study, Victor Shieh, editor-in-chief of PortOverview ...