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Sudan-Qatar agreement in order to invest in the development of the Sudanese port of Suakin (Osman Digna)
Previewed expenses for 500 million dollars within 2020
March 27, 2018
Yesterday to Khartoum, in Sudan, the minister qatariota of the Transports and the communications, Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti, and the Sudanese minister of the Transports, the roads and the bridges, Makawi Mohamed Awad, an agreement for the development and the management of the Sudanese port of Suakin has undersigned (Prince Osman Digna Port or port of Osman Dokna), in the Red Sea, that it is situated 60 kilometers to south of the port of Port Sudan. Currently the port of call, that it is able to enliven until three million tons of goods per year is constituted by nine docks for a total of 748 linear meters of approaches.
The project, that it has the objective to make of the port of Suakin a marine commercial platform and economic key for the E region entire Africa, will be participated to 51% from the Sudan and 49% from Qatar with the involvement respective of the Sea Ports Corporation (SPC) and of Qatar Ports Management Company (Mwani Qatar). The project previews a total investment of four billions of dollars, of which 500 million in order to realize the first phase that, second the forecasts, will be completed in 2020.
The collaboration will be started already the next month with the inauguration of a marine service between the port of Suakin and the port qatariota of Hamad for the export of Sudanese cattle.
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Yesterday to Khartoum, in Sudan, the minister qatariota of the Transports and the communications, Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti, and the Sudanese minister of the Transports, the roads and the bridges, Makawi Mohamed Awad, an agreement for the development and the management of the Sudanese port of Suakin has undersigned (Prince Osman Digna Port or port of Osman Dokna), in the Red Sea, that it is situated 60 kilometers to south of the port of Port Sudan. Currently the port of call, that it is able to enliven until three million tons of goods per year is constituted by nine docks for a total of 748 linear meters of approaches.
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