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Increasingly aware of the failure of state-led port management, the Algerian central government has launched in 2006 a port reform allowing through public-private partnership the concession of some container terminals to foreign operators. Two major international players, Portek (Singapore) and Dubai Ports World, already established concessions in the container terminals of Alger, Djen Djen, and Bejaïa ports. This opening towards foreign partners is highly strategic as it aims at modernizing ports, better connect them with global shipping, and avoid the bypass of Algeria by other transshipment hub ports of the Mediterranean such as Tangier Med. This article evaluates the impact of reforms and concessions on the port and logistics performance of Algeria.