Walvis port expansion on track

The overall progress of Namport’s new container terminal in Walvis Bay on reclaimed land project is 55 % completed and on schedule to be commissioned by the end of 2017. This is according to Namport’s acting manager for business development Phillemon Mupupa.“The reclamation work is 100 % completed as well as most of the dredging work. The construction of the passenger liner jetty is also on schedule,” Mupupa told delegates during a Namibia Logistics Hub Forum in Walvis Bay.Major activities and progress to date related to the project which commenced in May 2014, includes the completion of 193 out of 533 (36%) quay wall cast in situ bored piles and the fabrication of 1 608 out of approximately 5 143 three-ton Chinesepode armour units. Mupupa also reported that the construction of the three-phase SADC gateway port is well underway and said several mega projects which surfaced in the last few years would not be feasible without the SADC gateway terminal. These include the Trans-Kalahari railway line, Botswana coal exports, the mega logistics parks in Namibia (NDP4), the Namibian crude oil industry, large-scale Namibian mining product exports, coal exports from Dordabis, iron ore exports from Deep Yellow and the Walvis Bay area, magnetite and many more. The first phase of the SADC gateway terminal, consisting of a liquid bulk terminal for hydrocarbons, entrance channel and turning basin to new port, 2 x 60 000dwt tanker berths, an access trestle and product pipelines, is 35% completed. Construction of a LNG terminal for a new power plant (phase two) will commence once the construction of plant in the vicinity of Dune 7 starts.The feasibility study for the construction of a multipurpose bulk terminal (Phase 3) with a capacity to handle more than 100 million tons per annum will commence this year. Implementation will start in 2017 and it’s expected to be commissioned by 2019/20.OTIS FINCK

Walvis port expansion on track

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