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The humidity and sub-tropical rain in South Africa's port city of Durban is doing little to dampen the enthusiasm for the fifth Brics summit, the first time the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have met in Africa.
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Through one of his subsidiary companies, Bollore Africa Logistics, Vincent Bollore is already the largest private operator of port concessions in Africa, with operations spanning 41 countries including Nigeria, Kenya and Ethiopia.
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Raised in a strict Prussian family, he went to sea at age 14 and spent time in the French Foreign Legion in Africa before arriving in Port Lincoln in 1961 aboard a Swedish merchant ship.
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As the ship left South Africa in search of another port, the United States had urged other southern African countries not to allow it to dock.
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The Ferreiras were at the Masters all the way from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and they found the phone ban liberating.
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The deal included an agreement to acquire the plant, equipment and buildings of Xmeco Foundry Pty, a specialist large casting foundry in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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The pirates have taken the vessel, which was carrying coal from South Africa to India, to the Somali port of Hobyo.
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However, the BBC Southern Africa correspondent says there are problems because the port in Maputo is badly run down, and there is also uncertainty about how a large integrated customs and border post between South Africa and Mozambique will work.
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Maruti exports cars to more than 125 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Oceania using a car-terminal facility at the Mundra port in Gujarat.
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The Allegra, whose Italian name means "merry, " or "happy, " had left northern Madagascar, off Africa's southeast coast, on Saturday and was cruising toward Port Victoria when the fire erupted.
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The BBC's East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse says residents had spoken of increasing tension inside the port town amid the power vacuum that ensued.
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