PORT DEVELOPMENT

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The project consists of the following main items: (i) at Port Moresby, land reclamation, a storage shed and a stacking area. The additional open and covered storage space is needed to solve present and expected storage problems; (ii) in Lae, a deep-water berth designed to accommodate container traffic would be constructed as an extension of an existing wharf. As a result of the construction of the Lae-Highlands Highway, traffic through the port has been increasing at an average of 17 percent annually for the last three years and a three-shift operation has been introduced to decrease ship delays. As previously explained, expansion in excess of the proposed works depends on construction of a road from Madang to the Highlands; (iii) coaster berth of facilitation will be added at the port of Kieta, to free the existing deep-water berth for overseas shipping and avoid current delays; (iv) the existing port at Samarai is old and unsafe for heavier loads, causing overseas lines to bypass the port. A small new port at Alotau, to cost US$1.3 million, will serve the Milne Bay District better; (v) the association would also finance cargo-handling equipment and would provide for training and management consultant services as well as the cost of engineering consultants.

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Water Supply and Storage, Seaport, Government