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The Transport Sector Project aims at providing the policy framework required to ensure efficiency and effectiveness throughout the sector. It also supports a major rehabilitation effort in highways, ports and civil aviation, the backbone of the country's transportation system. To this end, the project finances (a) the rehabilitation of some 360 km of existing paved roads; (b) the construction of a container berth, a fuel jetty and a siltation prevention dike in Conakry port, and dredging of the port area and access channel; and (c) essential navigational aids and infrastructure rehabilitation at Conakry International Airport and at selected domestic airfields. Additionally, the project finances technical assistance to establish a regulatory framework for privatized transport sector operations, and to strengthen and improve Government planning and investment selection, pricing policies, manpower development and training sectorwide. The main benefits of the project are the opening up of areas that now are isolated for several months each year; the protection of the paved highway network from further deterioration and even higher reconstruction costs; and a substantial reduction in road transport costs with direct benefits to both urban and rural populations.

World Bank Group

Project

Airport, Road, Aerospace & Defense, Seaport, Government