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Introduced seven offers for the expansion of the port of Topic
the value of the investments arrives to beyond two billions of dollars
February 4, 2014
They are the seven considered offers valid that Authorities in the within of the procedure of contest for the realization of the expansion of the port of Topic have reached the Ghana Ports & Harbours that is started last March and that it has collected 53 expressions of interest manifested by international companies and consortia. The Authority has announced that an offer is introduced by a company of the Ghana, while the others are advanced by enterprises and coming joint venture from Belgium, China, Holland, Portugal and Switzerland/Israel.
The ghanese Authority has specified that the value of the offers to be included among 489 million dollars and beyond two billions of dollars on the base of the realization of the progettuali phases proposed from the offerer on a total of five phases previewed from the project of expansion of the port.
The first phase of the project previews the primary infrastructure construction which dams and others works of protection and the dredging of the backdrops let alone the realization at least five new docks, of which two dedicated to the traffic of the container, two multipurpose and for the traffic of the rotabili and one for the traffic of the passengers of the ferries and the cruises. With phases 2, 3 and 4 are previewed the realization of other container terminal and terminal for the traffic of fruit and food. The fifth phase is dedicated to the realization of structures to service of the industry of the oil and the gas.
Now the Ghana Ports & Harbours Authority will proceed to the appraisal of the offers, phase that - second the forecasts - will have a duration of four months.
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