The Industrial Promotion Fund (FPI) and China Gezhouba Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 20, 2019. Objective: raise funds internationally for the rehabilitation of the port of Kalemie in the province of Tanganyika.

As a result, the memorandum of understanding signed with the China Gezhouba Group will allow not only the mobilization of the necessary funds for the rehabilitation of the port of Kalemie but also the carrying out of detailed technical studies and project implementation based on the results of the projects. already completed by the REIT.

« We will seek financing in China. And we hope to get the financing as soon as possible to plan the start of the works within six months, « promised Shi Guodong, commercial director of China Gezhouba Group.

This protocol is a concrete expression of the FPI’s managerial vision, which aims to put a particular emphasis on the development of structuring and industrialising programs throughout the national territory.

View of the signing ceremony of the MoU.

For the Director General Patrice Kitebi, the REIT as a public institution whose main mission is to ensure the financing of the domestic industry is concerned about the rehabilitation of this port of Kalemie.

« This is to pre-service and viabilise interventions (FPI) in the region by significantly reducing the costs associated with the various imports of companies to finance, but also to improve the collection of the Tax Promotion Industry ( TPI), the Fund’s main resource. To ensure this rehabilitation, the REIT needs funding that it can not cover with its own resources, « he said.

The port of Kalemie is a work of public and economic interest of paramount importance for the development of the province of Tanganyika as well as for the supply of other provinces of the country. It serves as an entry point for imported goods.

It is also a railway terminal of the South-East network which is currently in an advanced state of disrepair and its infrastructures require a rehabilitation to make it efficient.

Emilie MBOYO