Post #192

🇬🇳Iron Fist In Bottleneck The project that was supposed to bring about more railways is facing stifling infrastructure 🌐 After the launch of the Simandou complex in Guinea, the country’s main port of Conakry got almost paralysed because of the jump of traffic. 🔸The crisis was caused by large-scale supplies of equipment for the Chinese-Guinean consortium developing the Simandou deposit, one of the world’s largest sources of iron ore. 🔸 The Turkish company Albayrak Group, which manages the port, could not cope with a 70% surge in cargo traffic, while the government’s only solution was to threaten the operator with the termination of the contract. ⏩ It is not the only international-scale problem that has been caused by the Simandou project 🔸 In September Guinean authorities turned away a shipment of 18 China-built locomotives, claiming that, by contract, locomotives must come from the United States. One of the initial promises of the project was an infrastructure extension: the developers were supposed to build a new port and a 650-km railway - for both private and public use. However, now it seems that Simandou alone is going to flood the infrastructure system. Devils Below