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    Namibia inaugurates $280 million port terminal

    Yemisi Lanre-IdowuBy Yemisi Lanre-IdowuAugust 3, 201902 Mins Read
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    Namibia has inaugurated a new port terminal which doubles its container capacity and also gives the country’s tourism a major boost.

    The 40-hectare platform reclaimed from the sea at Walvis Bay, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) west of Windhoek, is to become a strategic gateway to emerging markets of southern and west Africa.

    The terminal was built with funds from the Namibian government and the African Development Bank.

    The cost of the installation is 4.2 billion rand (around $280 million).

    “The completion of the container terminal expansion puts us on a firm trajectory towards realising our dream of transforming Namibia into an international logistics hub,” President Hage Geingob said at Friday’s inauguration ceremony.

    A ‘State of Logistics’ report released by the Walvis Bay Corridor Group last year said the new terminal would increase the capacity of the port to 750,000 containers per year from 350,000 with the potential to go over a million in the future.

    Geingob said “Zambia, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, and Zimbabwe are among the main land-linked, now sea-linked markets for seaborne transit cargo by volume going through the port of Walvis Bay”.

    The terminal also includes a dedicated cruise liner berth and a marina breakwater which “strengthens our capacity to attract tourists to our shores”, he said.

    According to a 2018 finance ministry report Walvis Bay has been handling around 3,000 vessels and six million tonnes of cargo every year. 

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