Gabon: SEZ restructuring brings in AP Moller Capital

Lagos-based infrastructure financier Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has increased its stake in the Gabon Special Economic Zone (GSEZ) as part of a restructuring bringing in transport and logistics specialist AP Moller Capital as a new investor to expand the project into West Africa. The AFC said the GSEZ had been reorganised into three separate companies: Arise Port & Logistics (P&L), Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms, and Arise infrastructure Services. Arise P&L is now owned by AP Moller Capital, Singapore agribusiness company Olam International, and AFC.