Aliko Dangote, founder and chief executive officer of the Dangote Group.
Africa’s richest man could not find a single ship to transport just 1,000 tonnes of his cement from Nigeria to nearby Ghana. He now wants to buy his own.
Dangote Industries Limited, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa headed by billionaire Aliko Dangote, said it is planning to acquire vessels capable of carrying its industrial products to regional markets, where it currently relies on tax-heavy road networks.
“We are moving forward towards getting our own ships in order to do this business,” Sada Ladan-Baki, head of international trade export at Dangote Cement, said Tuesday at a seminar on non-oil exports.
The company began exporting cement 16 years ago and has now attained 50 million metric tons of annual production capacity. By June this year, the Group had produced 1.1 billion MT of fertiliser, almost equalling the entire production for 2025 that contributed over eight percent of non-oil exports in the period.
