Luanda - Dubai Ports (DP) World has said it is investing 210 million US dollars for the modernization and expansion of the Luanda Port Multipurpose Terminal, its general manager for Angola, Francisco Pinzon, announced Tuesday in Luanda.
With this investment, the DP manager said, the capacity of the Multipurpose Terminal is expected to increase from the current 430,000 to 700,000 containerized units per year.
According to Pinzon, the terminal’s facelift is expected to be carried out during a period of 18 months and includes the construction of a two-storey building for administration and operations, two access sidings (loading and unloading), facilities for customs services, Tax Police and an ultra-modern X-Ray.
In addition to the upgrading of the operations space and cargo accommodation, the terminal will be equipped with state-of-the-art scanners and modern technological means.
The facelift to be given to the 22 hectares of the Multipurpose Terminal will include a fuel supply area with greater capacity, a health clinic and three parking lots.
Luanda Port Multipurpose Terminal processes an average 13 million tons (loading and unloading), including 20-foot containerized units, general cargo/industrial equipment and motor vehicles.
Francisco Pinzon said the investment will enable the digitalization of the operational procedures of the multipurpose terminal leading it to a modern, safer terminal to provide quicker response in terms of processing goods reduced by roughly 50 percent.
Alberto Bengue, Port of Luanda CEO, said the facelift of the multipurpose terminal will enable to increase the Port’s merchandise processing capacity, currently set at 18 million tons per year, of which 70 to 80% are processed at the terminal.
In 2020, DP World Limited won the public tender to manage for 20 years the Multipurpose Terminal of the Port of Luanda, with obligations to pay more than one billion dollars during the operating period.
The operating project of the Luanda Port Multipurpose Terminal is supported by an investment plan of over 250 million US dollars to be carried out over the 20 years of the concession, of which more than 70% will be made through national incorporation.
The investment plan includes rehabilitating the physical infrastructure of the Multipurpose Terminal quay, carrying out works needed to implement a new layout plan and maintaining the jobs of the staff operating at the terminal.
The Multipurpose Terminal of Port of Luanda is a port infrastructure dedicated to the simultaneous operation of general cargo and containers. It has a 610-meter quay with a depth of 12.5 meters, an area of 181,070 square meters and a capacity to handle 2.6 million tons a year.OPF/NE/AMP
