The Côte d’Ivoire Ministry of Economic Infrastructure has awarded construction company Louis Berger a $1.76-million construction supervision contract for two roads in Côte d’Ivoire.
The contract is being financed through the French Agency for Developments and the Côte d’Ivoire government and will include the supervision of the construction of a 45 km road between Ferkessédougou – the second-largest town in northern Côte d’Ivoire – and Ouagadougou, a northern town near the country’s border with Burkina Faso.
Louis Berger Africa operations head Jean-Pierre Dupacq notes that the construction of the road will include the rehabilitation of various road crossings that affect the road being constructed.
“When complete, the road will help local Ivorian producers transport their products to market faster and under better conditions,” he says.
Dupacq adds that the road will also generate additional regional trade and economic benefits as it links Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Having done projects in Côte d’Ivoire for the past 20 years, Louis Berger has implemented about 15 projects, which cover a range of professional services in the agriculture and transportation sectors.
Moreover, given its 50 years’ experience in Africa, earlier last month, the company was awarded a contract by Algeria’s Ministry of Culture and the European Union to design and rehabilitate operations at two World Heritage sites in Algeria.
This includes the building of two buildings and a section of the protection wall of the Kasbah of the City of Algiers – an urban inhabited site and ancient city classified in 1992 as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) World Heritage site.
Also, the Berber Tomb of the Imedghacen has been chosen for its location as an archaeological site in a rural environment and included in the indicative list of Unesco’s World Heritage sites.
Louis Berger began pilot rehabilitation operations at the two sites in March this year, which are scheduled for completion in July 2018.