Ghana: Dangote Cement has officially commenced the export of cement from its Ibese plant, Ogun State to Ghana. The Nigerian cement producer will start to export 5000t/week of cement using 50 silo trucks. However upon the completion of all logistics it says it intends to export 50 trucks of cement per day or up to 1.8Mt/yr.
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Dangote's chairman, had previously commented in an interview with Reuters that his company would start cement exports to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by the end of 2012. Dangote currently says it has a production overcapacity of 20Mt/yr in Nigeria.
Dangote Cement commissioned its first overseas cement terminal in 2011 in Accra Port, Ghana with a bagging capacity of 1.5Mt/yr. Dangote has also commented that there are good market opportunities in other neighbouring countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.