10 biggest projects in africa after asia it is the world's second largest and second most populous
continent africa covers approximately 30.3 million square kilometers including neighboring islands
accounting for six percent of the earth's total surface area and 20 percent of its land area
it is home to about 16 percent of the world's population with billion people as of 2018. africa
is expanding on a daily basis and the emerging middle class is driving need for long-term social
infrastructure as countries across the continent struggle to develop infrastructure to support
their fast rising economies work is presently ongoing on some of africa's largest construction
projects change occurs as a result of progress and it manifests itself in a variety of ways
it frequently occurs in conjunction with new construction projects that encourage development
from school and hospital building to mega projects that turn a region of a country into a mega city
according to united nations forecasts africa's population could reach 2.4 billion people by 2050
however that population's average age will be significantly lower than the rest of the world
this is referred to as the youth bulge it means that africa will have access to a large
and dynamic workforce eager to establish a new future nations
are investing in a variety of mega projects in the hopes of sustaining this prosperity
join us as we look at african countries and the construction projects that will help them develop
10. lecky deep seaport one of western africa's greatest infrastructural projects is being
developed in the ebiju lucky axis of lagos state the lecky deep seaport project is a 1.2 billion
dollars investment that will be completed in 2021 lucky deep seaport a multi-purpose deep seaport at
the heart of the lagos free trade zone will be one of west africa's most modern ports providing vital
support to nigeria's and the region's burgeoning commercial operations the project management
consultant for the multi-billion shilling leckie deep seaport project is louis berger
one of the world's largest multi-disciplinary infrastructure consulting organizations
9. kansa technology city kenya's first smart city which is being developed specifically
to attract i.t employees and investors is already under construction as the government
works to establish the african silicon savannah kansa will work to diversify kenya's economic
growth by establishing districts for business process outsourcing disaster recovery centers
call centers software development data centers light manufacturing industries and research
institutions with a budget of 14.5 billion dollar and a location kilometers south of the capital
nairobi by 2030 kansa will have created 17 000 high-paying direct employment and 68
000 indirect jobs once it is fully operating the kenyan government is promoting the kansa
technologies as a business process outsourcing bpo initiative through the kenya ict board
8. bagamoyo port the ambitious bagamoyo port is being created in tanzania together with
190 industries erected in a 1700 hectare special economic zone adjacent to the port
thanks to collaboration between tanzania china and oman with an initial expenditure
of 11 billion dollar this mammoth project aims to become africa's largest port with
the capacity to handle 20 million containers per year once completed in 2000 four to five
tanzania will undoubtedly be positioned as a regional economic powerhouse as a result
of this project the project together with its affiliated industrial zone
is expected to be the country's largest government infrastructure project its goal is to relieve
congestion at the old port by replacing it with a leading shipping and logistics center
7. mombasa nairobi standard gauge railway kenya will spend 326 billion shellings to build a 969
kilometer standard gauge railway connecting mombasa and malaba this project is critical
because freight presently accounts for only five percent of the country's shipping but if completed
this new railway will help bring that percentage up to 40 percent by 2025.
this new line will also reduce the time it takes to travel between the country's two most important
cities from nine hours to 4.5 hours the rail line from mombasa has made it as far as mayivasha
6 suez canal expansion the suez canal has been expanding since 2014 with a new shipping lane
of 22 miles being built alongside the original 102 mile canal this development which is slated to be
completed by 2023 is intended to increase yearly revenue by providing space for additional ships
construction of a new city new ismailia city an industrial zone fish farms the completion of the
technology valley the construction of seven new tunnels between sinai and ismailia and portshed
the improvement of five existing ports and the digging of a new canal parallel to the
suez canal were all part of the project by allowing ships to sail in both directions at
the same time for a larger stretch of the canal the new canal has enhanced canal capacity the
initiative developed the canal cities into a major global commerce hub it also established
new logistic and ship surfacing centers on the suez canal the canal's annual revenues will rise
from 5 billion dollar to twelve point five billion dollar according to the project's administration
five mambilla hydroelectric power project nigeria's government has
finally invested to make the huge mambilla hydroelectric power project a reality
in order to meet the needs of the country's burgeoning economy and growing population
this 5.8 billion dollars project which has been in the works for three decades will connect three
dams across the donger river in taraba state eventually generating 3050 megawatt of energy
the project is being carried out by nigeria's federal ministry of power construction and
housing with chinese funding manbila nigeria's largest power plant is expected to begin
operations in 2030 producing roughly 4.7 billion kilowatt hour of electricity per year
four two nurse solar park tuner is creating a vast 4.5 gigawatt solar energy park in tunisia
covering an area three times the size of manhattan new york and is leading the way
into the future this project will absorb energy straight from the saharan sun and then send it
via submarine cables to malta italy and france powering up to two million european households
the two nurse solar project in tunisia is a collaboration between neuroenergy a uk-based
solar plant developer and a group of maltese and tunisian oil and gas investors this project
in particular requires a large land grab 10 000 hectares as well as a lot of water to clean and
cool the panels in dry and semi-arid regions in order to export electricity to the uk and europe
3. lagos calabar railway the 1400 kilometer labos calabar railway which is expected to
cost 11 billion dollar is being lauded as one of africa's most audacious projects the rail project
will go from lagos in the west to calabar in the east passing through port harcourt uyo
and aba it will improve the movement of goods and services across the region once it is completed
sable lagos hopes to cover all seaports along those lines in the near future
the china's civil engineering construction company is in charge of the railway project
2. denguetae oil refinery lakodangate africa's richest man is developing a massive oil refinery
in nigeria's ebiju lucky neighborhood on the outskirts of lagos at a cost of between 12 billion
and 14 billion when it opens in 2022 dangate oil refinery will be one of the world's largest oil
refineries capable of processing 650 000 barrels of crude per day the refinery will produce euro
v-quality gasoline and diesel as well as jet fuel in polypropylene and is estimated to create 9
500 direct and 25 000 indirect jobs while dangate secured a 3.3 billion dollar syndicated loan
from standard chartered plc the dangate oil refinery will be self-funded to the tune of 60
one grand inga dam by far the largest building project in africa is the grand inga dam a
proposed hydroelectric dam at inga falls on the congo river in the democratic republic of congo
the dam is expected to produce 39 000 megawatt per year on average about twice
as much as china's three gorges dam making it the world's largest hydroelectric project
the cost of the grand inga dam is predicted to be around
100 billion dollars not including the cost of transmission lines to transport the dam's
power across the continent by december 2016 the project was supposed to start however
the world bank withdrew its support in july of that year due to conflicts over the project
the future looks bright it will also become much more brighter if we explore more
innovative financing strategies there is still a lot of efficiencies to harness in
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