Concession to build, develop, and operate dry ports in Dosso and Niamey

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The dry port project in Dosso and Niamey Rive Droite aims to:facilitate and process international trade through strategic investment in multi-modal transportation assets and promote value-added services as goods move through the supply chainspeed up the flow of cargo between ships and major land transportation networks, which could carry goods to the rest of the country,reduce red tape and transportation costs for users in Niger,move the time-consuming sorting and processing of merchandise inland, away from the congested seaports in Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire, its main accesses to the sea.The dry port is expected to be multimodal with a connection to the new railways project between Benin (Port of Cotonou) and Niger. The Dosso dry port platform is expected to be the largest multimodal cargo handling center for merchandise imported from Benin.