{"id":28674,"date":"2022-01-04T01:37:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/construction-begins-at-dp-worlds-1-1-billion-port-in-senegal\/28674\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T01:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:37:05","slug":"construction-begins-at-dp-worlds-1-1-billion-port-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/construction-begins-at-dp-worlds-1-1-billion-port-in-senegal\/28674\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Begins At DP World&#8217;s $1.1 Billion Port In Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Senegal President Macky Sall on Monday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a $1.13 billion deep-water port being developed by Dubai&#8217;s state-owned port operator DP World at Ndayane, around 50 km (31 miles) south of the capital Dakar.<\/p>\n<p>DP World Dakar, a joint venture between the Dubai-based logistics provider and the Port Authority of Dakar (PAD), is the biggest private investment in the West African country, Sall said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are ready for the structural transformation of our economy with this mega project,&#8221; Sall said.<\/p>\n<p>DP World has said the first phase will include 840 metres of quay and a 5 km marine channel designed to handle 366-metre vessels, with a second phase adding 410 metres of container quay and further dredging to handle 400-metre vessels.<\/p>\n<p>DP World chairman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem said his company would develop and operate the 300-hectare container terminal, as well as finance and design the land and maritime infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It represents a brighter future as this new port will bring greater economic growth, prosperity, and jobs,&#8221; Sulayem said.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting by Diadie Ba; Writing by Hereward Holland)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal President Macky Sall on Monday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a $1.13 billion deep-water port being developed by Dubai&#8217;s state-owned port operator DP World at Ndayane, around 50 km (31 miles) south of the capital Dakar. DP World Dakar, a joint venture between the Dubai-based logistics provider and the Port Authority &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}