The Portuguese construction giant Mota Engil has been attacking West Africa in recent years. Last big project to date; the imminent revival of the Dakar-Kidira railway line for a total amount of 600 million euros
It is difficult to escape the yellow and blue colors of the giant Portuguese construction companies on public works sites in southern Africa in the center and west.
For two and a half years, MOTA ENGIL has been working “on the body” with the Senegalese government to entrust to it the concession of two railways DAKAR-KIDIRA and Ziguinchor-TAMBACOUNDA.
The gamble of the Portuguese giant is to mesh the country from the NORTH to the South and from west to east by lines that will not only open up the least served areas in terms of communication routes but also confirm the Senegalese capital in its status. the most fluid hub of the sub-region in the face of increasingly ambitious competitors.
This project which espouses the ambitions of the Senegalese government will certainly be the second step of the process in discussion between the Portuguese and the Senegalese government which wants a rehabilitation of the metric line between Dakar and Kidira with the development of about twenty railway stations, a dry port at Tambacounda as well as relevant junctions with the port of the future under construction at BARGNY and the port of Dakar.
This project for which MOTA ENGIL’s proposal currently on the table of the Senegalese authorities is a concession in BOT and mobilizes an investment of approximately 600 million euros could start before the month of July 2018.
In the second phase, MOTA ENGIL plans to invest 2.5 billion euros for the construction of standard gauge lines between Ziguinchor and Tamba and Tamba and Dakar.
What to put water to the mill of a Senegalese government criticized for having favored the project of Regional Express Train TER whose pill has difficulty to pass in the opinion of Senegalese.
From KIGALI to Johannesburg, where she set up her African neighborhoods, MOTA ENGIL seems to be one of the battles for the development of infrastructures in these two major regions of Africa.
It is because this company started its activities in Africa, in 1946 when Angola was still under Portuguese administration and since then, it has consolidated a strong umbilical link between this European giant, 50 th world in its sector and the continent African.
Thus, on the large project of the NAKALA Corridor as well as on KIGALI airport, the MOTA ENGIL shows today a relevant know-how in concession projects with public and private participation.
It is on this model, moreover, that it seems to want to continue its expansion, making African decision-makers benefit from its technical and financial expertise. This win-win approach has the advantage of lining up African governments with new forms of partnership allowing an acceleration of the implementation of the latest generation infrastructures.
MOTA ENGIL relies on a network of financial partners such as AFRICA FINANCE CORPORATION, EXIM BANK AFRICA and other banking institutions, particularly in Europe and Africa.
The expertise of the Portuguese giant in this field, rented by more than one specialist proves it. And the statistics show it enough.
In the framework of the NAKALA CORRIDOR, it is an investment of three billion US dollars which has been raised, for the realization of the airport of KIGALI, one speaks 890 million euros while in Abidjan for the sanitation and Waste management is about $ 500 million.
Very good news for the turnover of MOTA ENGIL, which already caracolait around 4 billion euros.
But MOTA ENGIL’s bulimia of activity seems insatiable today, since it has discovered that West Africa is a business niche that has not been sufficiently explored. With the sanitation contract in Côte d’Ivoire, she has finished settling on the shores of Ébrié Lagoon and this has already allowed her to extend her tentacles to CONAKRY where her local office manages such an important portfolio. as prestigious: the ASHANTI GOLD mine in SIGUIRI was entrusted to him in full exploitation by the South African giant of mines.
Beyond this exclusively private contract, MOTA ENGIL is now interested in major projects initiated by the president ALPHA CONDE including “Conakry 2040”. It is for her to be able to contribute to the big project of restructuring of KALOUM Bay and the surrounding ISLANDS.
For this, an office is already at work at the CONAKRY center.