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Doubling of the ability to the container terminal of the congolese port of Matadi
The landing place controlled from the Philippine ICTSI will be able to enliven 400 thousand teu
December 9, 2019
Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT), the society that manages the container terminal that has entered in activity to half 2016 in the port of Matadi, on the Congo river, in the Republic Democratic of the Congo, has started the second phase of the project of construction of the terminal that will allow to double the annual ability to traffic of the landing place African who will go up to 400 thousand teu.
MGT is participated to 52% from the ICTSI Africa of the terminalista group Philippine International Container Services Terminal, Inc. (ICTSI), to 38% from the congolese Groupe Ledya and to 10% from congolese SCTP KNOWS. The new work will allow to extend the dock from 375 to beyond 500 linear meters and doubling the area of the terminal that will go up to 10,5 hectares. Moreover new means of handling will come acquired between which two crane of dock.
ICTSI has specified that the new works will be framed in programs of public-private partnership that among other things previews the dredging of the Congo river in order successively to carry the backdrop to a depth of 10 meters and to 12,5 meters, with work that will be started the next year.
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Matadi Gateway Terminal (MGT), the society that manages the container terminal that has entered in activity to half 2016 in the port of Matadi, on the Congo river, in the Republic Democratic of the Congo, has started the second phase of the project of construction of the terminal that will allow to double the annual ability to traffic of the landing place African who will go up to 400 thousand teu.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
