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Toyota CEO ensures compliance with deadlines for works in the port of Namibe

The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, received, this Thursday, at the Presidential Palace, the CEO and President of Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Ichiro Kashitani, in an audience where the upgrading of the Commercial Port of Namibe was at the center of the conversation. At the end of the meeting, Ichiro Kashitani assured that the project was proceeding as planned, with the port expected to be ready within 36 months.

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At the end of the meeting, speaking to the press, Ichiro Kashitani said that the construction and rehabilitation project for the Commercial Port of Namibe, estimated at around 700 million dollars, would be completed in 36 months.

Ichiro Kashitani said that the project is running "within normality, as planned", and that "it will be completed in 36 months, thanks to the strong support of the Government of the Republic of Angola and the provincial authorities of Namibe", reads a note from Cipra, to which VerAngola had access.

In addition to issues related to projects in progress, the audience also analysed, for the future, several projects of common interest, advanced the official.

"In accordance with the strong policy of the Government of Angola, which has to do with clean energies, we also address issues that have to do with renewable energy projects, water desalination and also the possibility of exporting Angolan products to the outside," he said.

The official also took the opportunity to mention an initiative related to the training of Angolan staff: "The Toyota Angola Academy has already been inaugurated, with a view to training trainers at the level of engineers, and this type of approach started in Luanda. We want to continue developing and also expand to other provinces", indicated, quoted in the Cipra note.

According to the statement, the head of the Japanese car manufacturer also discussed with the head of state his nomination for Honorary Consul of the Republic of Angola in Japan, having undertaken to work, "with all determination, in the sense of contributing to the development of the country and the cooperation relations between Angola and Japan".

The construction works for a new container terminal at the commercial port of Namibe and the rehabilitation of the mining port of Saco-Mar, in the province of Namibe, started in 2021, being financed by the Japanese Export Credit Agency and private banks in the Japanese country and executed by the consortium Toyota Tsusho and TOA Corporation.

With the rehabilitation of the port of Namibe, the authorities intend for that infrastructure to become one of the most dynamic and competitive African ports in the South Atlantic, establishing itself as an industrial, logistical and service development hub in southern Angola and as a port of reference in southern Africa.

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