The Sudanese Ministry of Transport appreciates the role of Qatar to develop ports on the Red Sea

The Sudanese Ministry of Transport appreciates the role of Qatar to develop ports on the Red Sea
Khartoum
 The Minister of State for Transport, Roads and Bridges in Sudan, Eng. Ibrahim Yousuf Bing, praised the Qatari role in developing the Sudanese ports on the Red Sea in the east of the country through the strategic partnership between the two countries which serve the purposes of transferring the region to be a regional and international start-up station. Global.
In a statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA), Bin said that Qatar is implementing large development projects worth 4 billion dollars to modernize the port of Sawakin, which is the largest economic system that will move the region to the ranks of developed international ports.
He pointed out that the Sudanese-Qatari understandings in this regard are carried out with seriousness and high credibility and provide an excellent model for bilateral cooperation and joint action to promote the economy of the country, which serves the strength and excellence of relations.
"This vital project will enable Khartoum to make optimum use of the preferential features enjoyed by the Sudanese ports on the Red Sea. The Qatari project includes an integrated vision of container and passenger ports and the link with neighboring countries on an ongoing basis, as well as providing job opportunities," said the Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport, Roads and Bridges in Sudan. And to bring about major development transformations in the region.
"The country presence in such projects will give Sudan major global investment opportunities as a global investment hub that provides an encouraging model for others to enter into economic partnerships with Sudan," Ping said.
He pointed out that Sudan has benefited greatly from the country's advanced experiences in this field and will benefit more from the modernization of the region owned by the Sudan on the Red Sea and its development to create more specialized and integrated specialized ports, especially as Sudan borders Chad, Central Africa, Ethiopia and South Sudan, Closed and does not have ports and looks forward to take advantage of the Qatari projects in Sudan in these areas, expected to see the Qatari projects in the field of ports are significant positive steps during the coming period.
Eng. Ibrahim Yousuf Binj said that the development of the southern port in Sudan, which gave the tender to a global Philippine company will invest one billion and 500 million dollars to modernize and develop it to reach a capacity of one million and 500 thousand tons per year in the container field which will open wider opportunities to enable Sudan to serve the regional economy of the region.
It is noteworthy that the Sudanese-Qatari partnership for the rehabilitation of the port of Swakin on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan, provided that the partnership of the Government of Sudan by 51% and the State of Qatar by 49% to build the most recent port on the Red Sea at an estimated cost of more than 4 billion dollars, Worth $ 500 million in March 2018 and will be completed within 30 months. The Qatari project is expected to transform Sudanese ports into a global economic outlet for all vessels transiting the Red Sea.
Source: Qatar National