Projects

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Project for the creation of a new mineral port located in Owendo, Gabon. The project comprises of a zone of 45 HA reclaimed on the sea. It has a storage capacity of 10 million tons in phase 2. It also contains 3km of private railway line, handling equipment for minerals, and a quay of 170m. The total project cost is $150 million, the project commenced in September 2014 and the port has been operational since December 2016.

ACIS was engaged on the following for the project:

1. Drafting of the business model as well as the detailed business plan. 
2. Preliminary project definition:

• Definition of physical boundaries
• Type of construction of the quay, as well as of the adjoining storage yard
• Length of the berths, dimensions and positioning of the cargo storage zones

The preliminary project definition was done in coordination with international consultants such as EGIS and Royal Haskoning. 

1. Follow up and coordination of initial studies: geotechnical studies, environmental impact studies and hydro-sedimentary studies.
2. Drafting of the initial concession agreement, and review of the final agreement prior to signature.
3.  Choice and specification of equipment requirements:

• 6 X cranes with grab buckets
• 6 X dumper trucks
• 2 X barges of 2,100 ton capacity each
• 3 X locomotives
• 90 X wagons

1. Implementation of recruitment of the top level of management for the civil engineering phase, as well as for the operating phase.
2. Start-up of initial railway, storage, and vessel loading operations. 

Project for the creation of a new multipurpose port located in Owendo, Gabon. In phase one, the project includes a quay of 420m, 12 HA of yard, capacity for the storage of 10,000 tons of grain storage as well as 8,000 tons of palm oil, and a containers terminal comprising 6HA of yard with an annual capacity of 200,000 TEUs. The total project cost is $285 million, the project commenced in September 2014 and the port will be operational in June 2017. 

ACIS was engaged as a consultant on the following for the project:

1. Drafting of the business model as well as the detailed business plan,
2. Preliminary project definition:  

• Defining the physical boundaries of the port.
• Type of construction required for the quay as well as the adjoining yard.
• Length of berths, dimensions and positioning of cargo storage zones.
• Dimensions and positioning of grain silos, storage tanks for palm oil, administrative buildings and workshops. 

The preliminary project definition was done in coordination with international consultants such as EGIS and Royal Haskonings. 

1. Coordination and follow up of initial studies: geotechnical studies, environmental impact studies and hydro-sedimentary studies.  
2. Drafting of the initial concession agreement, and review of the final agreement prior to signature.  
3. Choice and specification of equipment requirements:

• 2 X multipurpose panamax quayside gantry cranes (QCs)
• 4 X rubber tyre gantry cranes (RTGs)
• 2 X harbour mobile cranes
• 2 X suction cranes for grain handling (Vigan)

1. Choice of Terminal Operating Software.
2. Implementation of recruitment of the top level of management for the civil engineering phase, as well as for the operating phase. 

ACIS acts as a consultant for the mining sector. We have been working on logistic solutions for the iron mining sector.

1. General scoping of solutions for corridors between mining areas and ports.
2. Ports assessment for ore export, solutions and comparaison: Monrovia, Buchanan, Roberstport.
3. Cost studies and comparaisons for logistic solutions: rail, road/barges
4. Phasing for logistics and ore extraction, using various scheme like barging, rail, road, general cargo and bulk operations in ports.

Sites in scope:

• Mount Nimba,  Simandou south, Dieckete
• Wologizi
• Buchanan Tailings
• Western corridor
• Existing corridor Yekepa-Buchanan
• Port of Monrovia
• Buchanan Port
• Roberstport

ACIS has developed an in-house application for the management of Port domain.

1. Interactive Domain Map
2. Reporting for Port Domain, free land, occupation, contract type, etc... in pdf or excel.
3. Contract management, intuitive interface
4. Contract database
5. Invoicing
6. Tools to verify disparities tariff/surface/contractual price.
7. Generates rental contracts, embedded process with geometer.