Africa-Press – Cape verde. The national maritime transport concessionaire, Cabo Verde Interilhas (CV Interilhas) completes its fifth anniversary of operation with more than two million passengers and almost one and a half million tons of cargo transported.
The figures were provided to Inforpress by the vice-president of the ETE Group, Jorge Maurício.
The manager of the Portuguese-Cape Verdean group, which owns CV Interilhas, highlighted the milestone and said that the company has been on a “very good” path of “commitment” and “response capacity” towards Cape Verde.
“We are closing the fifth year, we are reaching the target of 2 million and 500 thousand passengers transported, almost one and a half million tons and more than one million and 500 thousand vehicles transported”, he listed.
For the vice president, these numbers were only achieved due to a “very strong” response capacity, both on land and at sea.
Something that, he said, requires “a lot of resources” and a “firm commitment made selflessly”, with the aim of fulfilling the concession contract signed with the State of Cape Verde.
Jorge Maurício also assured that the company has followed the operational model “to the letter”, making, on average, around 67 trips per week, for a total of more than 3 thousand trips per year.
“Transport is our mission, territorial cohesion is our commitment, sustainability is our great challenge, safety is also very important for the ETE Group”, he stressed.
However, the head of the ETE Group said he was aware of the problems that still persist, including the “difficult oceano-metrographic conditions” that sometimes prevent travel.
Jorge Maurício guaranteed that CV Interilhas’ mission is to fulfill the remaining 15 years of concession signed with the State and achieve even more.
“Because we have increasingly better conditions, more knowledge of the market, more knowledge of each island, more knowledge of the specificities of goods and also passengers and we want to improve”, he assured.
The improvements, he explained, involve making more investments and having ships that are more suited to market needs.
“There is a demand and we also have to know how to respond to this demand, that is, have an offer that is appropriate to the needs of Cape Verdeans,” he concluded.
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