michael o'leary mocks climate change concerns as quote complete and utter rubbish ryan air transport some one hundred thirty million people a year mostly on shore flights. the container ships keep coming into abidjan but west africa's busiest port needs to be dug out further if it's to compete with regional rivals and a further move to make inroads in to africa by financing and building infrastructure china is providing the know how and investment to modernize the port in the ivory coast city. upgrading abidjan ports is one of the biggest infrastructure projects on the african continent it already handles ninety percent of ivory coast foreign trade when it's complete the term will be the largest in west africa one point four billion dollars is flowing into the massive reconstruction plan eighty five percent of the project funding is coming from china. african projects are crucial to president xi jinping belgian road initiative which aims to connect china with asia europe and africa by land and sea critics say the initiative is all about spreading chinese influence abroad and a saddli