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Portuguese firm loses port management contract

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    Guinea-Bissau’s government has created a port administration body and rescinded a contract awarded earlier to a Portuguese company, Tertir, for the management of the port of Bissau, ACEP, a network of Lusophone NGOs based in Portugal, reported on Friday.

    The new state body, Administração dos Portos de Bissau, will be responsible for contracting private firms to operate the country’s ports, ACEP reported.

    The government said it had stripped Tertir of the contract because the Portuguese firm had not fulfilled it. It said the management of Bissau port had been under discussion for months because of problems that had turned it into West Africa’s most expensive port.

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