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An interesting article

Seems that the Cameroon Government will be helping with port facilities and possibly the railway also  with the help of some land locked adjacent countries.




KRIBI DEEP-SEA PORT PROJECT PUBLIC INVITATION N ° 0006 MINEPAT/2008 TO SUBMIT AN EXPRESSION     

Written by Administrator    

Wednesday, 02 July 2008 

KRIBI DEEP-SEA PORT PROJECT


PUBLIC INVITATION N °  0006   MINEPAT/2008 TO SUBMIT AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR FUNDING, BUILDING AND OPERATING THE KRIBI DEEP-SEA PORT 

   


BACKGROUND


1.1.            Project

The Government of Cameroon seeks partners to fund, build and operate a deep-sea port in Kribi, a locality situated at the sea front of Cameroon in Central Africa in the Gulf of Guinea.

The project will allow for the construction of deep-sea port facilities that would receive large vessels in view of handling various traffic, including:

-          Traffic associated with mining of deposits (iron ore, bauxite, nickel, cobalt and rutile, etc. ) and related industrial activities ;

-           Hydrocarbon traffic;

-          Container traffic that is fast increasing in the sub-region (Cameroon and its landlocked neighbouring countries, namely Chad, CAR, North Congo, North DRC);

-          Traffic associated with transhipment and redistribution of containers along the West African Coastal area.


Technical, economic, financial and environmental studies conducted reveal that the project bears a real economic interest for Cameroon and countries of the sub-region on the one hand and a financial interest for investors, businesses and port operators on the other hand. As a matter of fact, it is an over-arching and income generating project that will promote sub-regional integration as well as development of industries, urban, transport and energy infrastructure and sustainable improvement of the living conditions of the people.

1.2.            Execution arrangements

The project shall be implemented under partnership contracts. In fact, Cameroon and contractors shall sign agreements for funding and/or building and/or operating part or all port facilities. These agreements shall be reached following a tender selection and contract awarding procedure as spelled out in law No2006/012 of 29 December 2006 on rules and regulations governing partnership contracts in Cameroon as well as its implementing instruments.

These agreements would concern the following lots:

Group 1: Construction of basic facilities: funding and construction of the seawall, access channel, dock, wharves, pack and main utility service (sanitation, roads, railways, water, electricity, communication services)

Lot 1.1: Seawall

Lot 1.2: Dredging activities and packs (access channel, dock, and embankment)

Lot 1.3: Wharves

Lot 1.4: Main utility service

Group 2 : Construction of terminals:

-          Funding

-          Construction of infrastructure and superstructure

-          Terminal equipment

-          operating terminals


full article at this link:)

 

http://www.minpat.gov.cm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=226&Itemid=97


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