Africa-Press – Angola. The province of Cabinda is changing more and more, adapting to the technological world, after the inauguration, in February this year, of the North Submarine Cable System of the operator Unitel.
The arrival of the submarine cable and its interconnection to the national fiber optic cable network is yet another sign that the country is moving towards transforming the territory into a platform for the region.
Users, in particular youth and companies, make this tool their highest work platform.
Today, hundreds of users in the main municipality of Cabinda benefit from the digital network, through fiber optics, with multiple facilities.
Residents of Urbanização 4 de Abril, for example, already have a signal from Unitel’s North Submarine Cable System, an ambitious project that has boosted telecommunications in the region.
During the 21 years of peace, Cabinda also recorded the completion of the Floating Pontoon, starting the safe docking of the Ferryboat, since the concrete structures of the Breakwater and the ramp have been completed since June last year.
The Ferry-Boat will make life easier for the people of Cabinda to move, with their means (vehicles), to other parts of the country.
In this way, the province of Cabinda will, for the first time since national independence, mitigate the difficulties of transporting containerized cargo and vehicles to the rest of the country, taking into account the existing geographic discontinuity.
In addition to air circulation and catamarans, in the transport of passengers and normal cargo, the ferry-boat allows each citizen of this province to take their vehicle, passing through the port terminals of Soyo/Zaire and Luanda and traveling to the rest of the country, no surprises.
The construction of the Quebra-mar quay marked a new era for the Port of Cabinda, surpassing issues related to calemas, silting up of the basin, allowing for more fluid navigability and safe docking of large ships in the Port of Cabinda.
Refinery
In addition to the mobility aspect, there is also the start of work on the future Oil Refinery of Cabinda, an ambitious industrial project that will mitigate unemployment in the province.
This important economic infrastructure will transform the province into a potential producer and transformer of crude derivatives.
The first phase of the construction work at the Cabinda Refinery will be completed next December, according to the director general of GEMCORP, Marcus Weyll, who is in charge of the project.
The works in this first phase are 26 percent physically executed and 100 percent financially executed. All Refinery equipment is already in place (Malembo Plain), as well as seven of the 18 reservoir tanks that will be assembled later.
Between the construction, assembly and operation of the Refinery, 1,500 jobs will be created. Most of which are aimed at the younger population of Cabinda.
Structuring developments in Cabinda
With peace in Angola, the Executive’s bet is to conclude, this year, the works of the structural projects underway in the region.
These are the Caio Deep Water Terminal of Porto de Cabinda, the Centrality of Chibodo, the University Campus of Caio and the three thousand housing units of Tali Sumbi, as the government’s priorities and challenges for this year.
The Government remains committed to the rehabilitation, expansion and re-equipment works of hospital units, in the municipalities of Cacongo and Belize, for the provision of health services and medical and medication assistance in good conditions, rehabilitation of the National Road, Cabassango/Cabinda to Alto Sundi/ Belize, within a radius of about 300 kilometers, are also gains from Peace.
The installation of electrical substations, expansion of the water network in the municipality of Cabinda is part of the Government’s actions.
Stability, peace, security and good neighborliness
The reinforcement of security along the common Congo/Angola border marks the good relations of continued political and military stability between the two States.
The meetings between military commanders from Cabinda and the departments of Kouilou and Ponta-Negra (Republic of Congo) are proof of the good relations between the two military commands at the highest level.
Joint patrols along the border, the state of mind of the populations in these areas, the exchange of information, the fight against illicit trafficking, with emphasis on the smuggling of fuel and wood, and the movement of troops have maintained security of the common border, the preservation of peace and the free movement of people and goods for both sides.
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