Soyo – Soyo Port, in the northern Zaire Province, is increasing its investments framework in technical and administrative infrastructures to meet the economic growth demand in this region of the country and of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), ANGOP learnt from an official source.

The programme which will be developed in the 2010/2011 biennium, aims at acquiring port equipment and the construction of more than 300 metres of docks, the construction of a new main administrative building and the dry ports of the districts of Nzeto and Tomboco, said the director general of Soyo Port, Abel Paulo.

 
He highlighted that new discovery in oil blocks of the region, the start soon of the production of the “Angola LNG” Liquefied Gas Company, the boost of local tourism with the implementation of new projects, the perspectives of new data about the fishing industry growth, trade, among others, encourage the board of Soyo Port to make new investment.

Abel Paulo said that the investments also comprise the rehabilitation and equipping of Nóqui Port, which constitutes a production unit linked to Soyo Port.