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The Cameroonian State returns to the initial option to build the deepwater port of Limbe to Ngeme, not to Isongo
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- Wednesday, October 5, 2016 8:08
(Investing in Cameroon)
After announcing in August 2013, the relocation project of construction of deepwater port of Limbe, the site of Ngeme to that of Isongo, the State of Cameroon has returned to the initial option " after examining several hypotheses ," says a report just published the national port Authority (APN).
At the time, the then Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Djoumessi Nganou, had justified the relocation of this project by the narrowness of the site Ngeme and especially spending on compensation. Indeed, he had specified in a raid on the field, in addition to being larger, the site of Isongo is almost uninhabited, near the site hosting the cement plant construction project Afko Cement, and has a depth of 17m or 2m more than the site Ngeme, allowing bigger ships to dock.
All these features of the site Isongo, who were then presented as so many benefits to the project, so finally swept away, since, according to the revelations of the NPC, it is ultimately for the port will emerge Ngeme Limbe deep water.
The however we note that this hesitation on the site to house the project have dramatically slowed the start of work. Remember, this is November 1, 2013 that the Cameroonian government signed an MoU with the Cameroonian-Korean consortium called Limbe Port Industrial Development Corporation (LIPID), for the construction of the deepwater port of Limbe, in region South-west. This infrastructure, which should swallow a whopping 300 billion CFA francs, according to updated estimates, was to be delivered in 2018.
Facing the delay for 2 years in the realization of this project, and to make operational quickly the deepwater port of Limbe, LIPID "proposed to the Cameroon government to begin building a floating pier multifunctional, capable of accommodate ships of 20,000 tons, the cost is estimated at approximately $ 35 million (17.5 billion CFA francs), " announced the government at the end of a meeting held January 15, 2015, in Yaounde.
Nine months later, this floating terminal, according to the timetable presented in January 2015 LIPID, "could be built and delivered after six months' rest waited.
Like the other components of the port infrastructure, which " will be specialized in the transport of heavy goods such as hydrocarbons (the only refinery in the country is located in Limbe), cement (cement plant will be built in the town of Limbe) , container and other agricultural products (CDC operates thousands of hectares of banana, palm oil and rubber around Limbe), " says the Cameroonian government.
Brice R. Mbodiam
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