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09 Mar
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Port of Kribi looking for private management

The Steering Committee of the industrial port of Kribi project has launched an international request for expressions of interest for the recruitment of a private partner to manage the deep water port of Kribi, whose construction is underway. Interested candidates are invited to submit their bids no later than January 7, 2014 . An evaluation of these tenders will then retain a short- list of five competitors who will compete for the final award. At the same time, he launched a call for applications for the recruitment of a partner for towing and mooring (assistance for mooring ships on the docks ) ships in the same port infrastructure.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their bids no later than January 7, 2014 . An evaluation of these tenders will then retain a short- list of five competitors who will compete for the final award!

Built by the China Harbour Engineering Company ( CHEC ) and mainly financed by Eximbank of China , the deep water port , whose first project phase is 70% completed according to the latest assessment of the Cameroonian government, should be able to welcome its first vessels during the period of 2014-2015.

November 2013 | La Nouvelle Expression

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09 Mar
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Road and energy: Development potential

With a total of 51 300 km of roads throughout the country, only 5,000 km are paved. Compared to other countries in central Africa, Cameroon has the lowest density of roads with 2.6 km of roads for 1 000 inhabitants.

 

Cameroon has a huge development opportunity for energy power supply!

Besides the roads, Cameroon also a huge development opportunity for energy power supply. In fact, with the second hydro -electric potential in Africa after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Cameroon could produce 20,000 megawatts ( MW ) or more than 115 billion kWh , if these resources were developed.

While many investments are being made in this area to increase power production to 3,000 MW by 2020 the country is currently considering ways to improve coordination of their actions around general infrastructure development including transport, energy , urban development, water and sanitation, telecommunications to accelerate its growth. This is the goal of the workshop that took place Wednesday in Yaounde at the initiative of the

Ministry of Economy , Planning and Regional Planning [Ministry of Planning and Economic Development].

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