Baggins in the World
One of West Africa's largest container terminals, the port of Nouakchott in Mauritania, will have 43mil square meters of flooring by Record, a brand specializing in industrial and logistics areas that is part of Bagattini, a Bergamo-based company based in Zandobbio that has been in the flooring, masonry, and cladding business since 1951. The company has 41 employees and ended 2017 with a turnover of 11,791,719 euros.
Bagattini has been engaged in a major development plan in recent years that has led to steady growth in company sales. Part of the growth is due to the foreign division, which in the past year has seen major developments even in new markets with orders in Korea, Ghana, China, the United Arab Emirates, and now Mauritania.
"We often work with foreign countries, but this work is particularly important to us: this container terminal is the centerpiece of the new Mauritanian logistics development plan project and will be the nation's largest. It will be built in the port area of the capital Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast, and is intended to receive large numbers of international cargo on a daily basis. It will also be a focal point for the transit of goods to Mali and Morocco "-explains Guido Bagattini, the company's administrator.
"The market has always recognized us as an innovative and proactive company. We believe in and invest heavily in research and development, with a focus on product quality; this is why the French engineering firm that developed the design of this port selected our product in competition with that of several international competitors that participated in the tender for the supply of the pavements. What was needed, in fact, was a pavement with special technical characteristics to withstand severe dynamic load stresses and capable of ensuring stability and durability. Another specific feature of this order was the requirement to complete the supply of 43,000 square meters in less than 20 days."
The port of Nouakchott will have to support the daily handling and storage of hundreds of containers that are essential for the development of industry, trade and infrastructure, which are expected to see double-digit growth for West African countries in the coming years.
"As for the imminent future," continues Guido Bagattini, "we are completing the installation of a new system that will once again allow our companies to offer the market exclusive and innovative products to meet the demands of domestic and foreign customers, who are more and more attentive every day to the aesthetic appeal and technical performance of products.
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