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Sogester (APM Terminals - Gestao de Fundos) will manage the port angle of Namibe
Undersigned a contract of concession of the duration 20-year-old
May 27, 2014
Sogester (Sociedade Gestora de Terminais), that it is joint venture between Dutch APM Terminals of shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk and the angolana Gestao de Fundos that the container manages terminal of the port of Luanda ( on 31 July 2007), a contract of concession of the duration has undersigned 20-year-old for the management, maintenance and development of the port of Namibe, in Angola.
APM Terminals has specified that own investments in the harbour port of call will regard equipments, infrastructures, formation, safety and procedures for the increment of the productivity with the objective to increase the number of the ships that scale the port and the volume of traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of call.
Currently the port of Namibe has a dock of 480 linear meters with depth of the -10,5 backdrop meters and a dock of 274 linear meters with depth of the -6 backdrop meters both dedicated to handling of several container and goods. APM Terminals has specified that the new management of the port will head also meaningfully to increase also the ability to bulk handling of the port of call that - it has emphasized the Dutch company terminalista - is the only port of southern Angola, a region in which the population it is in increase, it is situated respect to areas of extraction of marble and granite of quality strategically appreciated all over the world and is starting point of the Caminho railroad de Iron de Moçamedes of the length of 907 kilometers.
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