CLOSING OF THE WORKSHOP TO RESTITUTE DETAILED TECHNICAL STUDIES FOR THE MODERNIZATION OF THE PORT OF KALUNDU IN THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH KIVU BY MINISTER JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA
Modernization of the port of Kalundu in the province of South Kivu as part of the Trade Facilitation and Integration Project in the GREAT LAKES-PFCIGL Region, the detailed technical studies carried out by the TYPSA-BETEC Group were presented this Friday in Kinshasa, during a workshop chaired by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Julien Paluku Kahongya
The strategic position of the port of Kalundu on the sides of Lake Tanganyika which opens the east of the DRC to neighboring countries in particular Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia makes it the 2nd port of the DRC after that of Matadi; hence its modernization is a relief to facilitate trade and integration in the Great Lakes region, said the Minister of Foreign Trade.
For Julien Paluku Kahongya, the coordination unit of the Trade Facilitation and Integration Project in the GREAT LAKES Region-
PFCIGL headed by Thierry Kayembe has no room for error to ensure the proper execution of this project financed by the World Bank within the framework of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa-COMESA
The modernization of the Kalundu port will help improve
the living conditions of the populations and to create jobs, indicated for his part Paulin Mwingi Birengerenge, Provincial Minister of Transport in South Kivu.
Note that a few elected officials, experts from the Prime Minister's Office and various Ministries including Foreign Trade, Transport and Infrastructure and Public Works, but also small cross-border traders, the FEC and civil society took part in this workshop to provide detailed technical studies for the modernization of the port of Kalundu.
