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The proliferation of multifunctional ports allows intentification transhipment activities, demanding more infrastructures and specific services. Ports, defined as meeting points among the different stakeholders involved in transport and services, become both convergence spaces among the different transport systems and service suppliers; and they also integrate into a system that supplies goods and demands logistic developments.

The ongoing debates about development paths on the African continent reproduce the same old discussion among development theoreticians, as to the dichotomy between outward-oriented and self-reliant models. Concurrently, in recent years Africa has withnessed dramatic economic and political transformations, at the both international and continental levels, leading to a significantly different scenario.