TAPPING POTENTIAL

Mega project helps Guinea become key exporter of bauxite

The SMB-Winning consortium comprising Singapore's Winning International Group, the French UMS Group, the Chinese aluminum producer, Shandong Weiqiao and the Yantai Port Group, entered the Guinea bauxite market in 2014, and has become a pioneer in using marine transport platforms for shipments. They have now opened up a bauxite transport route from Guinea to China.

In 2016, the consortium shipped 12 million tons of bauxite from Guinea, and, in 2017, the volume of the shipments was 32 million tons.