OMVS: the navigability of the Senegal River within reach
The Organization for the Development of the Senegal River (OMVS) intends to mobilize an overall amount of $ 138.525 million for the start of the work of the Integrated Multimodal Transport System (SITRAM) project, planned for this year.
On the sidelines of the celebration of the 6th session of the international association Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers (Iagf), the authorities of the institution unveiled the stage of evolution of this project, which constitutes the one of the flagship components of the subregional organization’s development program.
Thus, the officials also underlined that the OMVS is in advanced discussions with the Indian company AFCONS for the realization of the first phase of the Project.
An initiative focused on a number of infrastructures (Ports, channel, stopovers) allowing permanent navigation between Saint Louis of Senegal and Ambidédi in Mali.
In addition, as part of a reflection on the place of the river in the world of tomorrow, the OMVS and the French River Basin agency Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) will sign a partnership protocol.
Since its creation in 2011, the institution has been working hard to implement this project, whose main purpose is to restore and sustainably promote navigation on the Senegal River in Saint-Louis ( in Senegal) in Ambidédi (Mali).
