Algeria’s national carrier Air Algerie has signed deals worth US$760mn with US-based Boeing, European aerospace consortium Airbus and ATR, a French-Italian aircraft manufacturer, for the purchase of 14 aircraft
Logistics
New seaport to be built in Nigerian state

The seaport is expected to improve ease of doing business for importers and exporters in Abia State, Nigeria. (Image source: Roger Wollstadt/Flickr)
The government of Abia State in Nigeria has announced plans to build a seaport at Obuaku city in Ukwa West, to boost commercial and economic activities in the region
Djibouti and Shanghai Electric sign deal to construct power line for railway project

Earlier this year, Djibouti and Ethiopia launched a US$600mn 784-km railway project. (Image source: Erik Cleves Kristensen/Flickr)
The government of Djibouti and China’s Shanghai Electric have signed an agreement for the construction of a 63 kV power line for a railway project, linking the African nation with Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and South Sudan
Tanzania to spend US$85 million in 2013-14 to improve rail infrastructure

The railway upgrades are part of the Tanzanian government’s plan to accelerate country’s development between 2011 and 2016. (Image source: Barbara Stoessel/sxc.hu)
Tanzania has set aside US$85mn for upgrading its rail services in the financial year 2013-14 to ease cost of transportation within the country and to eastern and southern Africa
Belgium’s DJN starts second phase of Takoradi port expansion in Ghana
Belgian engineering firm Jan De Nul Group (DJN) has commenced the next phase of expansion of the Takoradi port in Ghana, in an effort to transform it into a logistics hub in west Africa