Top French construction company Eiffage enters Georgia to build Anaklia port
French company Eiffage has won the tender announced for the first phase of the construction of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port. The photo of the project by Anaklia Development Consortium.
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One of the largest construction companies in Europe, French company Eiffage, will be the key contractor of the Anaklia Development Consortium to carry out the first phase of construction work of the Anaklia Deep Sea Port with Swiss ABB and Georgian CRP, IPN cites the Anaklia Development Consortium as saying.
- Find out more about the Anaklia Deep Sea Port project in the article ‘Project of the Century: Georgia starts to build Anaklia Deep Sea Port’ by Mariam Papidze on Agenda.ge.
Anaklia Consortium says that top engineering and construction companies took part in the international tender they announced for the project.
The competition had several stages and finally Eiffage was selected by the Anaklia Development Consortium. The company is among the top five European construction companies with more than 100,000 completed, important projects worldwide,” the consortium says.
Ninety per cent of the 1,500 people employed by Eiffage during the construction will be Georgians.
Eiffage was founded in 1844 and is now represented on five continents and 50 countries.
The Port of Barcelona, Port of Dakar, EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, Airport Crete, El Tigre Viaduct are among the large-scale projects carried out by the company.
Anaklia Deep Sea Port is scheduled to open in 2020 and will be built over the course of nine phases.
The total investment volume of the project is expected to reach 2.5 billion USD. The Georgian government has allocated 330 hectares of land and 225 hectares of marine territory for the Anaklia Port in western Georgia.
The first phase is scheduled to cover 110 hectares of the port territory.
Anaklia Deep Sea Port project has once again become the topic of discussion, the main question now being whether the Georgian government is considering backing out of an agreement signed with the Anaklia Development Consortium in 2016.
Georgian Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure Maya Tskitishvili says international financial institutions have eight demands that should be fulfilled in order to invest in the project. Tskitishvili said that the investors demand a feasibility study of each phase and say that the port development should not be linked to any specific date and should start only after the feasibility study is done.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze says that statements [by the opposition and others] that the Georgian Dream government does not want the Anaklia deep sea port to be constructed are “cheap and irresponsible political speculations."
The government of Georgia will prolong the term for submitting financial closer documents for the The decision to extend the deadline to accumulate the necessary funds was made at today’s government meeting. Georgian Infrastructure Minister Maya Tskitishvili said this is the sixth time the term has been prolonged.Anaklia Development Consortium, which is overseeing the Anaklia deep sea port, by six months.
The term given to Anaklia Development Consortium by the government, a state-tender winner to build a deep-sea port in Anaklia, western Georgia, to attract 520 million USD from a potential investor and four international banks, has expired today. The statement released by the consortium earlier today reads the "necessity and the lack of governmental support."