Three years after the ceremony for the start of the construction of the new Senegalese port of Ndayane ( of 4 January 2022), today the terminal group DP World of Dubai, which will manage the African airport, announced the start of the construction of maritime works with the arrival in port of the dredger Willem Van Rubroeck. DP World specified that The total investment expected is 1.2 billion and the first phase of the project involves the construction of a container terminal with a quay of 840 linear meters and a canal of five kilometers that will be able to accommodate container ships currently in service and which will have a annual handling capacity of 1.2 million TEUs. The second phase of the project involves the construction of an additional 410 linear meters of quay.