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| Japan Assesses Port Rehabilitation The International Institute of Coastal Development (OCDI), a Japanese organization, is conducting feasibilities studies for the rehabilitation of the Luanda, Lobito, Namibe and Cabinda ports. The Agency of International Cooperation of Japan (JICA) will finance the studies, which are expected to take 15 months to complete. The studies will outline plans to rehabilitate the ports by 2010, to improve the management and operation of the ports and assess the human resource requirements for operating and maintaining port facilities. In March the OCDI’s first technicians arrived in Angola to begin initial surveys of all four ports. They expect to complete the initial surveys by June and will return to Japan to evaluate their findings during the month of July. For more information, visit our web site
 Embassy of Republic of Angola, 2005 |