Ghana Port Targets Heavy-Lift Projects
Ghana’s Atuabo Free Port development is to include heavy-lift capacity in a load out quay connected to fabrication assembly areas.
The port – expected to be operational in 2017 – will be dedicated to serving the region’s oil and gas industry.
Commercial Manager Frank Hagan-Brown confirmed that the master plan for the US$700 million project is ready. He said that the port’s strategic location in West Africa would advance and offer cost effective facilities comparable to the world’s best supply bases.
Hagan-Brown added that the project had also made provision for a seven-year lease to ensure that local businesses own part of the project to give local content, capacity building and local participation meaning in the region’s oil and gas industry.
Other facilities included a service plot available for tenants and user and a fully accessible and protected port with 16.5-meter access, approach channel and port basin suitable for large heavy-lift vessel, barges, rigs and floating production storage and offloading vessel.
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