Djibouti liable over deal with Chinese port operator

Tom Jones and Sebastian Perry

05 April 2019

The Doraleh Container Terminal

An LCIA tribunal has ordered Djibouti to pay $533 million to a subsidiary of Emirati port operator DP World after finding that the east African state breached the company’s exclusivity rights by pursuing the development of container port facilities with a rival Chinese operator.

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Sebastian Perry