Pointe-Noire

Belgium’s ambassador Emmanuelle Plissart De Foy hails Congo-Belgium cooperation gains in SME financing, UNIPOD, maritime, twinning and creative industries.

As Congo sets its Q2 2026 crude benchmarks in Pointe-Noire, the quarterly ritual reveals how much leverage Brazzaville truly holds over its oil majors.

At Pointe-Noire’s Môle Est, 400 metres of quay are already built toward a €1 billion container terminal poised to reshape Central Africa’s maritime trade.

An EU-backed workshop in Pointe-Noire is helping Congo’s informal domestic timber firms professionalise finance, management and governance across the value chain.

France confirms continued AFD funding for water supply and drainage projects in Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville, including Tsiemé river channelling to curb floods.

Congo Terminal undertakes a dredging of bituminous sands without precedent in global port works, pairing technical rigour with strict marine safeguards at the East Mole.

Italy names the Republic of Congo a priority partner under the Mattei Plan, deepening cooperation in energy, infrastructure, health and maritime security.

President Denis Sassou-N’Guesso has returned to Brazzaville after a working stay in Pointe-Noire, Congo’s economic heart, where national development files were reviewed.

MBTP secures a $150m deal with AD Ports to build Pointe-Noire’s new container terminal, a 420-metre quay set to create 9,000 jobs in Congo-Brazzaville.

Congo-Brazzaville and Emirati group AD Ports have signed accords worth over $236 million to develop Pointe-Noire’s East New Mole terminal under Noatum Ports.