AA / Dakar / Alioune Ndiaye
President Macky Sall launched on Monday the work of the first phase of the port of Ndayane in Mbour (80 km south of Dakar), the total cost of which is $ 1.1 billion.
“This project, the first phase of which will mobilize $ 827 million, is the largest private investment in the history of Senegal,” said the Senegalese president, stressing that Senegal will thus acquire the largest multifunctional port in Africa. the west.
The financing of the first phase is carried exclusively by Dubai Port World (Dp World). This phase provides for the construction of a container terminal covering 300 hectares, a 5 km sea channel and the construction of an 840 meter quay with a draft 18 meters deep. The work will last four years, according to an official document distributed on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony.
The objective is, according to Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, CEO of Dp World, to make the port of Ndayane a “relocated African version of the port of Jebel Ali which has become the first deep-water port in the Persian Gulf”.
The second phase will mobilize 290 million dollars and will allow the port of Ndayane to have a 2nd wharf of 410 meters, a cargo terminal, a fishing port, a ship repair terminal. The financial package for this phase has not been disclosed.
It is the first port built in Senegal since independence. The port of Dakar, the only one functional today, dates from the 19th century.
President Sall also assured that the State of Senegal is present in the shareholding of the company responsible for the management of the port’s container terminal. “We are 40% shareholders and Dp World 60%,” he said.
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