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Started the construction of the new port camerunense of Kribi
the start of the activity of the port of call is previewed for 2014
October 12, 2011
Past saturday the president of Cameroun, Paul Biya, has put down the first stone for the construction of the port in deep waters of Kribi, situated in presses of the resort of Lolabe, four kilometers to south of Mboro. The first phase of the project previews an investment of 240 billion cfa francs (366 million euros), of which 207 billion through a facilitated credit line granted to Eximbank and 36 billion by the government of Cameroun.
In its speech president Biya has emphasized that the small tourist paradise of Kribi "will become one of the great doors on the Gulf of Guinea, for us same but also for the Countries siblings of Chad, of the Centrafricana Republic, the Equatorial guinea, the Gabon, the Congo and the Republic Democratic of the Congo. As you know - it has added - Kribi is already the final point of the Chad-Cameroun gas pipeline, the feather in the cap of our cooperation with the Country brother of the North. Kribi tomorrow will be the great port in deep waters of this part of our shoreline. From we will export our minerals here - iron, cobalt, aluminum, hydrocarbons, etc - but also the agricultural produced ones of our outback. Around the future port our industries of transformation will group that will provision under construction of energy from headquarters to gas. And still, true Kribi will converge the railway lines that will transport our minerals, crude or transformed".
The entrance in activity of the port is previewed for 2014.
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Past saturday the president of Cameroun, Paul Biya, has put down the first stone for the construction of the port in deep waters of Kribi, situated in presses of the resort of Lolabe, four kilometers to south of Mboro. The first phase of the project previews an investment of 240 billion cfa francs (366 million euros), of which 207 billion through a facilitated credit line granted to Eximbank and 36 billion by the government of Cameroun.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
