Construction of the deep water port some 18 kilometres north of the city of Cabinda in northern Angola is due to begin in the next three years, the Angolan transport minister told the television channel Televisão Popular de Angola. Augusto Tomás said that work to build the port would be carried out in three phases. At the end of the first phase the port would have a commercial dock 775 metres long, which would be increased to 1 550m at the end of the final phase. It will reduce the province’s dependency on merchandise imported via the port of Pointe-Noire in neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville. Currently, loading and unloading of container and bulk goods is carried out at the present low draught port at the city of Cabinda itself, using its new jetty, built by a Chinese company in 2011 and inaugurated in 2012. It has improved the processing of imported goods. It is 319 metres long and 12 metres wide, making it possible for two ships with draughts of between 8m and 10m, to dock at the same time. This year, by the end of September, it had processed 26 000 containers, a figure that is expected to increase to 35 000 by the end of the year.
Start of deep water port in Cabinda in next three years
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