FYI...More information about the scope and "Master Plan" of the...

FYI...
More information about the scope and "Master Plan" of the project.

By Samy Gad

Mar 3, 2022

While the officials in charge of mines and geology of Cameroon and Congo carried out a field visit on March 3, 2022, the gigantic project is taking shape resolutely the day after the double signing ceremony of the documents relating to the construction of the road. linking Mbalam to Kribi and the concession agreement for the Kribi Deep Water Port ore terminal.

“ You have in your hands the essential instrument that allows you to deploy and materialize these projects carried out at the highest level by the Republic of Cameroon and the Republic of Congo. We hope that you will get down to it, in the letter and the spirit of the partnership contract and the agreement, to fulfill your obligations and make possible the expectations placed on you. I undertake on behalf of the public party that I represent, to provide you with all the facilities required to guarantee the smooth implementation of the said projects” . Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe, challenged on February 26, 2022, the consortium in charge of implementing the gigantic project of the Mbalam-Nabeba deposit, and its segments.

The Minister of Transport of Cameroon, chaired, on the instructions of the President of the Republic, the double signing ceremony of the bundles of documents relating to the project for the construction of the railway linking Mbalam to Kribi and the concession agreement for the ore terminal of Deep water port of Kribi. A project of 5400 billion FCFA between Cameroon and Congo. The signing of the related documents calmly paves the way for the start of the work itself. The multimodal ore terminal will consist of a main berth, a loading platform for mooring and loading Panamax-size bulk carriers with an average capacity of 170,000 tonnes Dwt, a dredged channel,

It also announced, the construction of a trestle jetty from the material offloading facility to the loading dock, an MOF ore terminal, with breakwater protection and a dredged basin, conveyor easements, roads, equipment berthing and mooring for the benefit of the main berth, as well as for the MOF quays aids to navigation. The whole spread over 400 hectares of land area and about 500 hectares of area in the maritime domain. The project to build the railway linking Mbalam to the port of Kribi consists of a double-track railway, a rail for unloading wagons, a technical space for supplying and maintaining the tracks. in the terminal, maintenance and operating facilities, a main marshalling yard,

Master Plan and Snd 30

This segment also includes a temporary infrastructure dedicated to the construction of the assets of 6 construction camps, borrow pits, and quarries, a rail access road, an operation and maintenance area, a communication system, etc. ..
"Bestway finance limited and AustSino resources group limited have put in place the conditions required for the development of modern rail, road and port infrastructures, in order to allow the development of the mineral deposits of which the Craton of Kasai in Congo is concealed and whose these include the Nkout and Mbalam deposits in the Republic of Cameroon, as well as the Avima, Badondo and Nabeba deposits in the Republic of Congo,” responded Alexandre Mbiam, Managing Director of Bestway Finance Ltd.On the Cameroon side, it should be noted that the Mbalam-Nabeba project, and its main variations, are in line with the forecasts of Snd 30 (National Development Strategies for 2030), and Cameroon's National Railway Master Plan.

And Alexandre Mbiam, to add about the involvement of the Bestway finance limited/AustSino resources group consortium, that, "as part of the signing of the three related mining agreements from which Bestway finance benefited on March 13, 2021, the company has obtained from the Republic of Congo the freedom to choose the initial extraction route for the iron ore whose exploitation is incumbent upon it. It is for this reason, in partnership with the company AustSino resources group limited, that Bestway finances wished to define a framework of work with the Ministry of transport aiming, in the long term, the construction of railway and port infrastructures, having common a processing capacity of more than 100 million tonnes of iron per year in the Republic of Cameroon”. Note the presence at this double ceremony, the presence of Pierre Oba, Minister of State, Minister of Mining Industries and Geology of Congo.

Felix Beda