The French private company "Development and Strategic Corporation" plans to form a consortium with Belgium's Rent-A-Port Company to jointly invest in and operate a new port in Guinea's Bofa region. The new port is named Tegbe Port, which is located in the northwestern part of Guinea and on the Atlantic coast, about 180 kilometers from the capital of Conakry.

The planned port of Tiger Bay is a multi-purpose and comprehensive port. In addition to shipping bauxite, it also undertakes shipping of containers and bulk cargo. The planned ports include the following wharfs: special terminals for the export of bauxite ore, capable of accommodating 400,000 tons of bulk ship berths, container terminals, bulk cargo terminals, special oil tanker terminals for transporting crude oil or refined oil, industrialized fishing boat terminals, liquefaction Special dock for berthing and unloading of natural gas ships; building a liquefied natural gas storage on the dock.

In the plan, the port will also build a series of ancillary supporting facilities, including: building a railway to connect the Bofa mining area with the port. The railway direction is Boffa → Santa Houda → Taigbé Port; Industrial Park. It is planned to invest in the construction of an industrial park near the port to develop mining-related industries and manufacturing industries, such as alumina plants, electrolytic aluminum plants, red mud left after bauxite is used for refining alumina, and cement processing.

The investment model of this project adopts the cooperation model between government and social capital. The French private company "Development and Strategy Company" and the Belgian Rent-A-Port company form a joint investment, and then rely on the income from operating ports and railways to gradually recover the investment.

The project is expected to complete the feasibility study and environmental assessment of the project by the end of July 2020; complete the negotiation of the terms of the "Concession Agreement" with the Government of Guinea by the end of October 2020; formally sign the "Concession" with the Government of Guinea by the end of November 2020 "Concession Agreement"; The "Concession Agreement" was reviewed and approved by the National Assembly of Guinea before the end of December 2020; Financing, the administrative approval of the Government of Guinea, and the land use certificate were completed before the end of March 2021; Through the mode of international public bidding or invitation-based bidding, the infrastructure construction enterprises of the project shall be selected in a merit-based manner; before the end of September 2021, the infrastructure construction is officially started. Editor / Li Dan