Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Government authorized the Ministries of Finance and the Sea to adopt the necessary measures to implement a clean energy project, valued at three million euros, within the scope of the construction of the Cruise Terminal.
This information is contained in a resolution of the Council of Ministers published in the Official Bulletin.
According to the document, the project is called Onshore Power Supply (OPS) and is financed by the European Investment Bank.
According to the same document, it is an OPS system for supplying ships with onshore power, which allows them to turn off their engines when they are docked and is one of the strategies recommended by the World Port Climate Initiative to reduce the environmental impact of ships on ships. ports.
In addition to this, he added, the supply of energy through the OPS system “is also an important factor in achieving Cape Verde’s energy transition plans and achieving the goals established by the National Master Plan for the Energy Sector”.
In the same document, the Government justifies that the rational and efficient decision from a technical and economic point of view involves adapting the existing project and the contracted work in progress, in order to make them compatible with the need to introduce the OPS.
“The subsequent execution of the works to adapt the supply of the OPS will involve the demolition of infrastructures and their reconstruction, while the introduction of these changes in the current phase of the contract by the consortium-contractor will allow the execution of the works to be adjusted in an economic way. more efficient”, he argued.
The Government also maintained that “it is not technically and economically possible to separate the preparatory work for the OPS from the work covered by the construction contract, since the structural elements that make up the cruise pier are not divisible”.
Thus, the Government authorized expenditure in the total amount of 2,971,095 EUR (two million, nine hundred and seventy-one thousand and ninety-five euros) with the service provision contract, through the National Port Administration Company, SA (Enapor), aiming to implement the preparatory work for the OPS system, within the scope of the construction contract for the Mindelo Cruise Terminal.
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