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Started the construction of according to container the terminal of the port of Abidjan
The work will be executed by China Harbour Engineering Co., that it will realize also a port of transhipment to Sâo Tomé
October 12, 2015
Last week the ceremony of inauguration of the work of construction of according to container the terminal of the port of Abidjan has held and of widening and deepening of the Vridi channel of access to the Ivorian harbour port of call, works that will be realized by the Chinese group Lower Harbour Engineering Co. (CHEC).
The work of widening and deepening of the channel of access to the port, that cfa francs will cost 151 billion (260 million dollars) after tax and will last 36 months, will allow the landing place of long ships until 350 meters and with a draught of -16 meters.
The realization of according to container the terminal, that 708 million dollars will involve an investment of 409 billion cfa francs (), will happen in 48 months. The new system will afford to per year increase the ability to handling of container of the port of call African from 1,2 million to 3,0 million teu.
The realization of the new works is financed by China with a loan of 396 billion cfa francs yields last December of an agreement which signed from the government of Beijing with the executive of the Ivory Coast.
An other agreement is signed in these days from group CHEC with the government of Sâo Tomé and Prince for the construction of a new port of transhipment in the island African situated in the Gulf of Guinea. The project previews an investment of 800 million dollars, of which beyond 120 million by the Chinese company. The first phase of construction of the new harbour port of call will be completed to end 2018.
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Last week the ceremony of inauguration of the work of construction of according to container the terminal of the port of Abidjan has held and of widening and deepening of the Vridi channel of access to the Ivorian harbour port of call, works that will be realized by the Chinese group Lower Harbour Engineering Co. (CHEC).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
