Today, June 22, port management company Enapor will present its director plan for the port of Vale dos Cavaleiros, on the island of Fogo. Tomorrow, the plan for nearby Brava’s Furna port will be unveiled to the public at the Brava municipal chamber auditorium.

In addition to presenting the plans for the two ports, Minister of Infrastructures, Transportation and the Sea Manuel Inocêncio Sousa and Enapor administrative council president Franklin Spencer will preside over the delivery of equipment for the two ports.

Economic interests and the population in general on the two islands also see the visit by the government minister as an opportunity to ask when the expansion of the Vale dos Cavaleiros port will effectively get under way. The infrastructure is considered essential to the development of the island of Fogo and of strategic importance to the agricultural and farming sector, which continues to face various problems linked to the transportation of merchandise. A Semana Online’s sources indicate, however, that expansion work should begin before the end of 2007.

In an interview published in last week’s printed edition of A Semana, Manuel Inocêncio Sousa said that a project was currently under way for the expansion and modernization of the Vale dos Cavaleiros dock, which is currently 75 meters long and is projected to be expanded to 200 in order to help reduce the difficulties currently felt in terms of docking space.

On neighboring Brava, considered the country’s most isolated island in terms of transportation options, the port of Furna will be expanded and equipped with a roll-on/roll-off ramp.

Source: A Semana