Mauritius Container Terminal II

Promoter – Financial Intermediary

Cargo Handling Corporation Ltd.

Location

• Mauritius

Description

The project consists of extending the Mauritius Container Terminal e.g. paving of container stacking area and purchase of container handling equipment including 2 ship-to-shore, post-panamax, rail-mounted gantry cranes.

Objectives

To provide an increase in capacity to cater for increased traffic notably from trans-shipment.

Comments

Storage and Communication.

Sector(s)

• Transport

Proposed EIB finance (Approximate amount)

EUR 14m.

Total cost (Approximate amount)

EUR 28.3m.

Environmental aspects

A comprehensive EIA and Risk Analysis Study was carried out in 1994 for the whole container terminal. Noise and visual disturbance are not expected to have an impact under the present development phase of MCT.

Procurement

Published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 23 October 2004.

Status

Signed - 21/12/2004