Satisfactory Execution of Kribi Landing Station Project

Model of the Kribi Landing Station upon completion

The General Manager of Cameroon Telecoms, Camtel, has expressed joy and satisfaction with the rate of progress of works at the construction site of the structures to host the Landing Station for the Cameroon-Brazil Sub-marine Cable, SAIL Project, in Kribi. This was during a visit he paid to the site last week.

David Nkoto Emane could not conceal his satisfaction upon seeing for himself the level of progress of the works. This was more so, when the Chinese contractors carrying out the project, told the GM they have already done 55% of the job and reassured him that the September deadline for delivery of the completed project would be respected.

            “The Kribi Landing Station is about the biggest structure of the kind and for the purpose in Africa and even in the world. This is because apart from harbouring the Cameroon-Brazil submarine SAIL cables, it will also harbor other cables notably the 1000km long Cameroon-Nigeria cable link and perhaps cables linking Africa and Europe,” noted David Nkoto Emane, the General Manager of CAMTEL, during his visit to the Kribi site on 13 July 2018.

Nkoto Emane indicated that information from off-shore reveal that over 4000km of the 7000km cable link between Kribi in Cameroon and Froteleza in Brazil has been laid. The Camtel GM said there is no doubt that by 14 August 2018, Cameroon would be connected to Brazil through the sub-marine cables.

            The SAIL Landing Station in kribi is built on a surface area of 3000 m2. It comprises a huge building with two floors, and several secondary buildings. It will have offices, meeting rooms and halls, a stand-by electrical generator, two bore-holes for constant water supply, and fire-fighting paraphernalia. There will also be a garden, car parking lots and a perimeter fence for security.                         “We need to provide adequate security systems in and around the building it is the building that will harbor the technical equipment for the exploitation of the vast Cameroon-Brazil sub-marine cable link, SAIL, project,” explained the project engineer, Jean Marc Keutchafo, who indicated that the project is advancing according to schedule.

“We have already finished with works on the foundations, the elevation of the walls and the partitioning. We are now taking on the finishing,” Keutchafo assured.

            The visit of the Camtel GM to Kribi, came on the heels of an earlier visit to another giant project site, the Data Center, at Zamengoe, near Yaounde.