The Bassa Project Committee Chair thanked ArcelorMittal Liberia, the county legislative caucus, superintendent Janjay Baikpeh, and members of the PMC “for their support”.
The World Bank, IMF and Economic Intelligent Unit have all asserted that Liberia’s GDP growth will remain strong in 2023-24, which will be supported by rising output of iron ore, gold, and rubber and by rising investment into infrastructure development.
Liberia:- In the interest of promoting peace and industrial harmony, the management of ArcelorMittal Liberia and its Workers’ Union have reportedly reached a mutual agreement to resolve outstanding issues from the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that resulted in over a week of strike action by the workers. The issues were around demands for salary…
s part of its Phase II expansion, the layout of the revised operation has also relocated all rail maintenance facilities to Buchanan in contrast with LAMCO, which had these in Nimba County. Additionally, to help compensate for the job balance with Nimba, the company is building an automatic rail unloading facility, stockpile with stackers and reclaimers, and undertaking a major expansion of the Buchanan Port. A Vocational Training Center (in Buchanan) is also under consideration to help train the large number of technical employees that will be required.
Statement on Monday’s Protest BUCHANAN (May 22, 2023) ̶ ArcelorMittal Liberia reports that in the early morning hours of Monday May 22, its operations were disrupted for the entire day when unknown individuals set fire to a section of the rail track between Kilometers 005 and 006 in Buchanan. Access roads to the company’s Buchanan…
Grand Bassa Liberia:-Recently, there have been agitations in the public, particularly in Grand Bassa County, about the perceived relocation of a “washing plant” from Buchanan to Nimba County. Some stakeholders, citizen groups, and civil society actors directly accused ArcelorMittal Liberia of “intentionally removing the washing plant from Buchanan to Nimba without the consent of citizens…
Mr. Vaanii Kiazolu, Manager of Community Relations, admonished students that no one career is so difficult that a person, whether male or female, cannot do it. According to Kiazolu, one’s success in anything depends on the seriousness the person attaches to what he or she wants to do.
Private investments like ArcelorMittal as proxy for a dynamic private sector, serve as engines for job and income creation, and play a key role in the provision of both infrastructure and social services.
To date the Ministry of Information is yet to issue a single statement on the embarrassing satiation at the concession, least to mention the fact that none of the Legislative Caucuses in the three counties hosting ArcelorMittal are equally mute.
ArcelorMittal-Liberia accounted for 43.7% of tax revenue, while Firestone Liberia (8.9%), Bea Mountain (7.9%), MNG Gold (4.9), and Sime Darby Plantation (4.7%) are key revenue contributors.