\n\tDubai: Prepare for a serious facelift for ports in Djibouti, with the nation’s ports boss telling Bloomberg he is in negotiations with India, China, Brazil, Russia, and Arab investors to finance infrastructure projects worth $5.9bn.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere are plans to double container capacity at Doraleh to 3m teu a year by 2015, and build a brand new container terminal at Tadjourah, while the government wants to build six bulk ports.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe country plans to create six ports to handle commodity exports, according to Hadi.<\/p>\n
\n\tTalks are ongoing for a $600m oil refinery that will allow for the import of crude oil from South Sudan by pipeline with the finished products sold in East Africa.<\/p>\n
\n\tOn top of that there are plans for a $2.6bn liquefied natural gas terminal in Djibouti, including a liquefaction plant and a pipeline, to enable the export of 10m cu m of gas from Ethiopia to China annually from 2016. [09\/05\/13]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dubai: Prepare for a serious facelift for ports in Djibouti, with the nation’s ports boss telling Bloomberg he is in negotiations with India, China, Brazil, Russia, and Arab investors to finance infrastructure projects worth $5.9bn. There are plans to double container capacity at Doraleh to 3m teu a year by 2015, and build a brand …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ml_titleColor":"#000000","_ml_titleFont":"Roboto","_ml_titleFontSize":1.136,"_ml_titleFontWeight":"400","_ml_titleLineHeight":1.3,"_ml_metaColor":"#708090","_ml_metaFont":"Montserrat","_ml_metaFontSize":0.6785,"_ml_metaFontWeight":"400","_ml_metaLineHeight":0.92,"_ml_bodyColor":"#a9a9a9","_ml_bodyFont":"Open Sans","_ml_bodyFontSize":0.85,"_ml_bodyFontWeight":"400","_ml_bodyLineHeight":1.2,"_ml_wooPriceColor":"#666","_ml_wooPriceFont":"Open Sans","_ml_wooPriceFontSize":0.9,"_ml_wooPriceFontWeight":"400","_ml_wooPriceLineHeight":1.27,"_ml_headingColor":"#000","_ml_headingFont":"Merriweather","_ml_headingFontSize":2.02,"_ml_headingFontWeight":"700","_ml_headingLineHeight":1.47,"_mlglobal_userfontcolors":{"headingColorUser":[],"titleColorUser":[],"metaColorUser":[],"bodyColorUser":[],"wooPriceColorUser":[]},"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n