Sunday, July 29, 2018

Libreville AIrport, very simplo design.

With over 85% of Gabon covered in lush tropical rainforest, it is little wonder that the country is set to become a top destination for ecotourism. To cope with the increase in visitor numbers, Libreville airport is relocating from its cramped city centre location to a new site on the outskirts of the city. One of the primary challenges posed by this location, however, came in preventing vast quantities of runoff water from the surrounding rainforest from flooding the runway. We responded by designing a large swale that will intercept the runoff, and channel it away from the two state of the art airport terminals that will provide an impressive gateway to Gabon.

The project Doesn't have a good design, and is not ambitious

Source: https://www.burohappold.com/news/connecting-people-effective-transit-hub-design/

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

President Bongo appeals to China for infrastructure assistance

Projet de l'aéroport de LBV

Intéressé par le projet de construction du nouvel aéroport de Libreville, le Président du conseil d’administration (PCA) du Groupe Gurbag s’est entretenu avec le vice-président de la République, le 10 avril à Libreville. Les deux parties ont évoqué la faisabilité du projet de construction de cette infrastructure d’envergure.

Nouvel aéroport de Libreville : GSEZ Airports SA en piste ?

Le Conseil des ministres du 12 avril a entériné la suppression de la société de gestion du projet du Nouvel Aéroport de Libreville, dénommée «Aéroport du Gabon», sans toutefois révéler le nom de la nouvelle entité chargée de gérer la nouvelle plateforme aéroportuaire de Libreville.
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Le groupe Gabon Special Economic Zone Airports SA (GSEZ Airports SA), filiale locale de la multinationale singapourienne Olam, serait chargé de la gestion du nouvel aéroport de Libreville. (Image à titre purement illustratif – bâtiment futuriste à Singapour). © Gabonreview/Sutterstock

Qui succédera à la société «Aéroport du Gabon» (ADG), dans la gestion du projet du nouvel aéroport de Libreville à Andeme, sur la nationale 1 ? China Railway20, Upper Two, le groupe Gurbag ou Olam Gabon.

Monday, July 23, 2018

Cabinet 2G: Village olympique de Bongoville

L' Hôpital Jeanne Ebori, libreville Gabon.

Why  we didn't keep   Jeanne Ebori old building hospital ?  The design was very good.  The government  of Gabon could  renovate this building.


Urban planing

Gabon’s president Ali Bongo Ondimba has ambitious plans to develop the country’s infrastructure and has drafted in engineering firm Bechtel to help. Katie Coyne reports.
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President Ali Bongo Ondimba wants to bring Gabon country into the 21st century and for it to become a hub for the surrounding West African countries,” says Bechtel’s project director for Gabon Jim Dutton. “The president is seen as a leader in driving Africa forward.”
Ondimba - who came to power in 2009 - has charged Bechtel with drawing up the country’s first ever master plan for the country’s infrastructure.
Wide in scope it covers the infrastructure needed in the main economic areas of education, health, housing, neighbourhood development, utilities, transport, energy and tourism.
The master plan is part of Ondimba’s broader aim to transform the country with his “Gabon Emergent” plan to boost the economy and ensure lasting growth. The masterplan will be based on an economic strategy with three main pillars: industry, environment and services.
The former French colony is in central west Africa bordering the Atlantic Ocean and located between the Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea. It has a per capita income roughly four times that of most nations of sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s very well resourced as a country but its income is extremely poorly distributed,” says Dutton. According to the World Bank, the Gabonese per capita GDP stood at £15,183.47 in 2010. But there is a huge divide between the poorest and richest in society.
Gabon boasts the world’s largest unexploited iron ore reserves plus reserves of manganese and niobium. Oil is its biggest export - roughly about half of GDP - but output has passed its peak so the president wants to diversify away from it.
The country is also a big exporter of timber. The government’s decision to ban the export of untreated wood and raw timber from 2010 has helped encourage the development of a local timber finishing industry, creating more jobs.
“Bechtel got involved with the African Cup of Nations because the stadiums being worked on were not progressing fast enough”
That same year, Ondimba invited Bechtel to develop Gabon’s infrastructure masterplan to help further stimulate the country’s economy. Bechtel was on the government’s radar simply because it had previously carried out some economic studies for the previous administration.
But just a few months later the firm got handed an opportunity that could prove to be a poisoned chalice or a chance to build a great reputation for itself among the Gabonese. It was asked to help out with the organisation of the 28th Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.
“Bechtel got involved because the stadiums being worked on were not progressing fast enough, so we were asked to take on the management of stadium and associated infrastructure,” says Dutton.
“Delivering on time was critical and a test of our capabilities and politics.”
Bechtel soon found itself stretched and involved in all sorts of unexpected areas, but it had to pull it off.
“Because our name became associated with delivering on the CAN [Coupe d’Afrique des Nations] we sort of became responsible for lots of things that weren’t our responsibility such as ticketing and security. We had to get involved in these things.”
But success has paid off for Bechtel, by improving its standing within the country, and for Gabon by improving its standing within Africa.
“They’ve proved they can run an international sporting event - it was the best, it raised the bar,” says Dutton enthusiastically. “That’s not to say there weren’t glitches but these were dealt with.” This gave Bechtel enormous goodwill to deliver the infrastructure masterplan, which it has just delivered to the government.
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But what is the country like to work in? Around 40% of the Gabonese population lives in the capital city of Libreville in the north west. “Essentially it’s a coastal town with pains au chocolat and good coffee and very expensive restaurants to rival London prices,” says Dutton.
“But drive east of the coast for five minutes and there are people living on a dollar a day.”
Asked about corruption and red tape, Dutton says his company has been invited in by the government it doesn’t have a problem with bureaucracy.
“If Bechtel was to have a strap line it would be safety and ethical standards in the way it does business,” he says.
Not to miss a chance to enthuse about the country itself, Dutton adds: “Even the most cynical recognise that there has been a complete change in Gabon.”
He adds that the country is also pretty secure despite the huge divide between rich and poor. “It’s surprising how safe it is - if you wandered down a back street and got in the wrong cab you might get your wallet nicked,” says Dutton. But then, he adds, “I used to live in Battersea and petty theft can happen anywhere.”
Drawing up a masterplan is all well and good but the country needs an organisation to oversee and plan infrastructure well into the future. Hand in hand with drawing up a master plan, Bechtel has helped establish the National Agency of Major Works - a government agency to manage new infrastructure projects.
The idea was for the agency to be made up of a mix of expat westerners and Gabonese but currently 125 out of 180 total employees are Bechtel secondees.
Dutton explains that due to the shortage of university places in the country there is a lack of qualified Gabonese engineers. Although, says Dutton, those Gabonese coming to work for the agency are of a “high quality” - some with degrees from French or American universities - and they are usually bilingual. Going forward, the plan is to recruit more Gabonese.
“The Transgabonais is a mixed use single line taking manganese and passengers”
One essential area that the agency will be looking at is roads. The masterplan has identified development corridors crossing highly populated areas close to natural resources that have the potential for industrial development.
Developing these is seen as a priority under plans to grow the Gabonese economy.
“Most of the country is jungle so communications are along roads which are in very poor condition,” says Dutton.
The country’s only rail link, the Transgabonais, connects Libreville to Franceville in the South East.
“But,” says Dutton, “you wouldn’t want to use it. It’s a mixed use, single line taking manganese and passengers. It can take up to 16 hours to do the 400km.”
The plan is to upgrade and double the capacity of the Transgabonais, and introduce two new lines. The first will link Belinga, in the north where the country’s iron ore deposits are situated and where a mine is being developed, and Booue further north. The Transgabonais road corridor from Libreville to Franceville needs completion and a number of improvements are planned over the next four years.
Another priority is the development of a deep water port. This would help the president realise his aims of having Gabon serve as a trade hub for surrounding countries.
There is an existing port facility at Port-Gentil that could be developed, and the area could be designated a free trade zone to encourage business.
But Port-Gentil is connected to the mainland by swamp so a road is needed to link it to Nkok, about 20km east of Libreville and where the Gabon Special Economic Zone (an industrial park to encourage the development of the timber processing industry) is based, linking it to Lambarene further south.
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Other priorities include reducing congestion at the Libreville airport and producing a study for a new airport in the capital.
Housing is also a priority. Since May last year, Bechtel has been working with the government to develop a mixed use housing project in the Angondje zone in Libreville, next to the central football stadium. Some houses have already been built and 5,000 will be constructed in total.
The development has been designed in grids so that residents can be close to transport, schools and shops.
As a significant aside, Dutton adds that Bechtel’s involvement in this and the football tournament project has been instrumental in raising safety standards. “People used to wander round construction sites wearing flip flops or bare feet - wearing a helmet and high vis - but not the one piece of safety equipment that was most crucial,” says Dutton.
Another key area of concern is education. “There is a shortage of classrooms, and schools tend to run from seven in the morning to one and then run a second shift from one to seven like a lot of African countries - to double up because of the lack of capacity,” says Dutton.
“Sometimes they don’t have indoor toilets and in some cases no toilets.” Bechtel is collating all the studies previously carried out into education to come up with a coherent plan to improve facilities.
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More immediately there is a plan to double the number of students at the main university in Libreville and expand the intake at some of the other universities. This should improve the number of engineering graduates coming through to work at the new infrastructure agency.
The company has been constructing quick build classrooms and toilet blocks to increase university capacity.
Two prestigious projects currently under development are the City of Democracy - a series of government buildings outside Libreville - and the refurbishment of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene.
Founded by Nobel Peace prize winner, Schweitzer, in 1913, the hospital is a world leader in the fight against malaria. But the building needs refurbishment.
“It’s now a very tired hospital so there’s a lot of work associated with it. It needs a road to connect it to Libreville and the work needs to be done in the style of the surrounding buildings,” says Dutton.
This work must be done before the hospital’s one hundred year anniversary celebrations next year. And with the African Union Summit being hosted in Libreville in 2014, the City of Democracy redevelopment also needs to be done and dusted.
The outlook looks pretty bright for Gabon, and Dutton argues that in the future no one should be surprised to see the West African country on a tourist hot list of top places to visit.

Sunday, July 22, 2018

THE Most Incredible Project In The World

Diamniadio - Nouvelle ville, nouveau Pôle urbain de Dakar.

Dakar - Abidjan - Accra / Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana / West Africa's ne...

S.M le Roi Mohamed VI à Abidjan : une étape historique pour le projet de...

Baie de Cocody

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CYBERCITY MANDJI ISLAND



Statut : Projet en cours de démarrage
Planning : Fin des travaux prévu 2016
Description : Développement sur 2 000 hectares d’une zone de libre-échange.

 La 1ère phase du projet vise à préparer le site, aménager l’accès à la zone et à construire les installations communes : routes, voie ferrée, eau, électricité, télécommunications. La ZES offrira ainsi aux investisseurs un site adapté et moderne leur permettant de transformer les matières premières disponibles sur le territoire gabonais.
Corridor 1 (Port-Gentil)
Statut : Projet en cours de démarrage Planning : Fin des travaux 2016 Description : Développement sur 2 000 hectares d’une zone de libre-échange. La 1ère phase du projet vise à préparer le site, aménager l’accès à la zone et à construire les installations communes : routes, voie ferrée, eau, électricité, télécommunications. La ZES offrira ainsi aux investisseurs un site adapté et moderne leur permettant de transformer les matières premières disponibles sur le territoire gabonais.
La ZES utiliseront et transformeront les ressources naturelles et les matières premières du Gabon : énergie hydroélectrique, gaz naturel, minéraux, bois et ressources halieutiques. Ce projet répond aussi aux objectifs socioéconomiques du pays en aidant à la décentralisation de Libreville et fournit une opportunité unique d’améliorer la qualité de vie des Gabonais. Enfin, il aura un impact majeur sur le PIB national. Si la phase de conception et la construction des installations communes seront financés par le gouvernement, la ZES devrait attirer des financements multilatéraux aussi bien de la part des bailleurs de fonds que du secteur privé sous forme de Partenariats Public-Privé



Projet Akanda, Libreville Gabon


Projet Akanda , Libreville










Client: ALLIANCE
Architect & urban planner: WILMOTTE & ASSOCIÉS

Area: 107 ha

Under construction

Program:
Design of a masterplan for Libreville & development of architectural projects

Overview

Located on Gabon’s coastline, a few kilometers away from the capital Libreville, Akanda Marina sits upon a site at the entrance to the Gabon Estuary, enjoying a sandy beach and a lush vegetation, as the Akanda National Park. The Akanda Marina benefits from an advantageous location directly connected to large infrastructures of the area: the Omar Bongo stadium and the international airport. At this latitude, the sun's path across the sky is at the same vertical position throughout the year, which provides multiple orientations, allow to play with geometry and follow an open general layout.

Designed by Wilmotte & Associés in a sustainable development perspective, the project is centered on a marina that can host up to 200 boats and is structured around four villages surrounded by nature. It aims to become a unique neighborhood and a pleasant place to live, combining homes, tertiary and commercial spaces.

Major streets dedicated to traffic and pedestrian alleys converge to the heart of this district. Around the pond, it will be possible to wander in the shopping arcades, to take some rest in public spaces or sit down at one of the restaurants terrace to enjoy the sunset over the bay of Libreville.

The Akanda Marina project will be a contemporary area that can accommodate the most demanding buyers.






The main idea for this Marina was to create a place with a strong identity, but totally respectful of the site and its orientation, climate, landscapes and existing flora. A local harmony made of red earth, blue sea and dense green vegetation to nest this project.

Wilmotte & Associés has chosen to include a plan totally free and to adopt a new urban scale, respectful of the natural dimension of the site. Curves and axis of the area create participate in the master plan, allowing dense and breathing areas to coexist.

Sinuous districts with houses drowned in nature are mixed with straight avenues and public areas surrounded by constructions.
This architecture with simple proportions, pure appearance and bright colors, makes all districts around the pond, and creates the identity of the Akanda Marina, ensuring a balance between nature and urbanity.

Around the marina basin develops a remarkable architecture with most monumental dimensions. Four diamond-shaped buildings are implanted free of plane geometry and play on opposite directions at 45 °. They are home to shops, restaurants and offices and public spaces delimit the different functions: terraces, planted gardens, play areas, service platforms and parking. Finally the captaincy, on top of which sits a skybar, is a point object that marks the arrival of the long axis of the Avenue of the Marina to the Ocean.

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Saturday, July 21, 2018

Angondje Flydown. libreville, Gabon


  • Construction de 50 000 logements, 
  • écoles,
  •  centres médicaux, 
  • casernes de pompiers 
  •  installations commerciales.

 Les installations civiles seront financées par le gouvernement et les bâtiments commerciaux par des promoteurs privés.

CHAMP TRIOMPHAL PORT MOLE



  • Retail , Residential, Offices, 
  • Leisure Hotel (high end hotel 250 room and boutique hotel 250 room)
  • Special projects (Convention Center, Cultural Center, Gate Towers, two marinas and the Monument Island) 
  • Green and open space (including the promenades on Awondo and Arambo creeks and the Corniche) Public facilities (i.e. parking structures, bus terminal)
  •  Beach and football pitch

Diamniadio Lake City. Sénegal




Nouvelle cité du Sénégal. On a plain dotted with rotund baobab tree trunks Senegal is planning its future. The government of the west African nation is laying the groundwork for a new city near the town of Diamniadio that is meant to ease congestion in the seaside capital, Dakar, home to almost a quarter of the country’s 14 million people. With plans for a new airport nearby, a university, state ministries and a 50-hectare industrial park funded by China, it is the most ambitious infrastructure project yet by the president Macky Sall, who has pledged to double growth by 2020. Mr Sall, in office since 2012, uses the slogan “Emerging Senegal” to define his policy of attracting foreign investment to reduce the country’s dependence on fishing, agriculture and tourism and make Senegal a hub for French-speaking west Africa.

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Design in the context of Gabon



Libreville is the densely populated capital city of Gabon in West equatorial Africa. Due to the country’s difficult and unplanned growing pains the government has enacted the Green Gabon Initiative in an effort to create sustainable development while preserving the national rainforest.
The challenging tropical climate allowed for some unique design solutions utilizing the consistent wind and available daylight. This concept design for a sustainable mixed use building that includes a retail bakery and production area, a restaurant with an elevated streetside terrace, retail space that opens into an urban vegetative garden covering and shading the rear parking area, as well as upper level offices and a residential penthouse with shaded exterior spaces.

Le projet marina de Libreville

This plan is very well planed but not ambitious as Dubai waterfront.
Le nouveau Port-Mole représentera, sur une surface de 15 hectares, le nouveau quartier central de Libreville. Il comprendra de nombreuses infrastructures, des espaces publics de qualités et de toutes les commodités . d’usage pour profiter de cette magnifique zone sur l’eau : des hôtels, des commerces et des espaces de loisirs et de restauration (corniche, restaurants et marina). Enfin, l’espace réservé au service de ferry sera modernisé. Plus que tout autre lieu de la ville, le Port-Mole sera accessible par l’ensemble des moyens de transport : automobile, transport en commun, bateau et sera un lieu de promenade et de détente pour les piétons,


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  • Retail , Residential, Offices, Leisure
  • Hotel (high end hotel 250 room and boutique hotel 250 room)
  • Special projects (Convention Center, Cultural Center, Gate Towers, two marinas and the Monument Island)
  • Green and open space (including the promenades on Awondo and Arambo creeks and the Corniche)
  • Public facilities (i.e. parking structures, bus terminal)
  • Beach and football pitch

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

I can't believe this kind of design, it's just no good.

The houses are very small! Bad execution, These building were not in the original plan.
This is the building  that was supposed to be build according to the plan of Betchel.
Very good design

Libreville vision

 The vision is "Make Gabon, a global destination for ecotourism in the rain-forest and to make Libreville the Central African business center".




Gabon aims to become an important hub in central Africa.  Gabonese authorities want to make a financial center for the region. This is a great ambition but the authorities often lack of discipline to follow their goals. We hope that Libreville becomes a financial center in Africa .

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Design Oyem Stadium

Very beautifull design!

Capacity20 031

30 (Tribune of honour)

102 (VIP seats)
Country Gabon
CityOyem
Clubs-
Inauguration 16/01/2017
Construction 02/09/2015 - 12/2016
Cost XAF 36.3 billion
Design Shanghai Construction Group
Contractor Shanghai Construction Group


Its a very beautiful stadium build in north Gabon, and well studied to integrate the environment.

Description: Stade d'Oyem





It's by far the northernmost professional stadium in Gabon. While widely understood to be built in Oyem, it's in fact located in a remote village of Ewormekok, north of the city, along the N2 road. Beyond reach on foot, the stadium has no long-term tenant and was built specifically for the 2017 Cup of Nations.
Its construction was possible thanks to cooperation with the Chinese government, who supplied design and contractors, while ensuring that vast majority of workers on site are Gabonese (over 90%, though almost exclusively lowest-paid jobs).
Official groundbreaking took place in September, 2015 with president Ali Bongo Ondimba in attendance. Delivery date was initially expected to be November, 2016, but the stadium was only operational in late December, just 2 weeks before the Cup of Nations. Even during the tournament its perimeter wasn't done.
The stadium is oval but doesn't have room for a running track. Corners of the field are less than 10 meters away from the field while central parts of both the ends and side stands are over 30 meters away. The seating bowl provides 14 rows of seating on each end, while up to 40 rows along the sides. However, due to the roof structure, some of the uppermost rows have restricted sightlines.
The roof itself was raised compared to the initial design in order to incorporate floodlights rather than placing them on four masts. Its peak is at 30 meters, which – due to the stadium's location – makes the stadium the tallest structure in miles.
Spectators enter the stadium through four major ramps around the stadium. These lead to the main promenade with toilets and catering facilities, however the promenade drops by one floor behind each goal rather than remaining level.

CAN: le stade d'Oyem, un "éléphant blanc" au coeur de la forêt ?

Après RD Congo-Ghana, l'une des affiches des quarts de finale, quand se déroulera la prochaine rencontre d'envergure dans l'enceinte d'Oyem ? Il faudra attendre déjà que les travaux soient complètement terminés... d'ici "juin 2017", selon les responsables du chantier.
Achevé à "95%", l'écrin flambant neuf de 20.000 places, impeccable à l'intérieur et répondant aux normes de la CAF et de la Fifa, a donné un spectacle peu commun durant la première quinzaine de la compétition.

What 's happening to the Baie des Rois?





() - Le ministère des Infrastructures des Travaux publics et de l’Aménagement du territoire, le Fonds gabonais d’investissements stratégiques (FGIS) et la société anonyme, la Façade maritime du champ triomphal (FMCT) de Libreville ont signé ce mardi 17 mai 2016, un protocole de transfert de maitrise d’ouvrage, pour le lancement de la phase d’aménagement du site La Marine de Libreville.
Dans le même temps, un accord cadre a été signé entre le ministère des Infrastructures des Travaux publics et de l’Aménagement du territoire, le FGIS et la FMCT a également été signé. Il consiste à la mise en place d’un partenariat des travaux d’aménagement, et de développement du site afin de viabiliser, les premiers terrains constructibles de ce projet qui se veut le premier polder d’Afrique centrale.

Inscrit dans le Plan stratégique Gabon émergent (PSGE), cet ambitieux programme d’investissements lancé en 2012, par le gouvernement gabonais est parvenu au terme de la phase de préparation du remblai. Ce gigantesque chantier, issu d’une campagne de dragage dans l’estuaire du Komo sur un périmètre élargi autour du Port Môle de Libreville, devrait à son terme, accueillir un complexe commercial multipolaire qui réunira les infrastructures dédiées aux affaires et aux importations commerciales.
La FMCT encadré par le FGIS est chargé de l’aménagement du projet. Conformément à ses missions, le FGIS vise à susciter l’investissement d’entreprises étrangères et locales dans un secteur stratégique pour l’économie nationale.
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Project Metro Libreville Port-Gentil




Received by the Prime Minister, Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet, on December 14, officials of Upper Two, among others have expressed their interest, for the revitalization of the Gabonese transport sector. Upper two wants to built a high speed train Libreville to Port-Gentil.
Reçues par le Premier ministre, Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet, le 14 décembre courant, les responsables  de Upper Two, ont entre autres manifesté leur intérêt, pour la redynamisation du secteur des transports gabonais.
Au delà de son ambition de finaliser l’aéroport de Libreville, à Andem sur la Nationale 1, cette entreprise chinoise s’est proposé de créer une ligne de métro pouvant relier par la mer les villes de Libreville et Port-Gentil.
Le représentant de Upper Two, partenaire de Bati.Com. H Gabon, envisage «la création d’une compagnie aérienne et le désengorgement de la ville de Libreville, à travers la mise en circulation d’un métro de mer pouvant rallier également Port-Gentil»; rapporte Direct Infos Gabon.
Des projets pharaoniques qui pourraient, s’ils sont exécutés faciliter le quotidien des populations gabonaises.

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Monday, July 16, 2018

China Railway 20 veut construire une ligne de chemin de fer Mbigou-Mayumba

China Railway 20 veut relier Mbigou à Mayumba par voie ferrée © GMT
Le groupe chinois China Railway 20 (CR20), a manifesté son ambition de construire des infrastructures aéroportuaires, ferroviaires et routières au Gabon, notamment une ligne de chemin de fer reliant, la ville de Mbigou dans la Ngounié à celle de Mayumba dans la province de la Nyanga.
CR20 qui s’est proposé de finaliser la construction de l’aéroport de Libreville, à Andem sur la Nationale 1, a en outre, décliné au Premier ministre,  sa volonté de relier les villes de Mbigou et de Mayumba, long de 320 kilomètres par voie ferrée avec une vingtaines de 20 gares; précise Direct Infos Gabon.
C’est à l’occasion d’une rencontre avec le chef du gouvernement, Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet, qui s’est tenue, le jeudi 14 décembre 2017, à la Primature que le responsable de China Railway 20 a décliné ce projet qui sera financé sur fonds propres.  
Par ailleurs, l’entreprise projette aussi de construire 4 parkings à étages dans la capitale gabonaise, ainsi que des ports secs dans quatre villes du pays : Libreville, Makokou , Bitam et  Ndendé.

Nouvel aéroport de Libreville à Andem

La construction de nouvel aéroport de Libreville à Andem sur la nationale 1, attise les convoitises. Ainsi, deux sociétés chinoises, faisant parti des 500 plus grandes au monde, ont présentées leurs offres lors d’une séance de travail avec le premier ministre le 14 Décembre dernier.
L’inauguration du nouvel aéroport Blaise Diagne de Diass au Sénégal, a visiblement donné des idées à Ali Bongo, puisque quelques jours à peine après son retour, le projet de l’aéroport d’Andem a été remis au goût du jour. Et ce sont les chinois China Railway 20 et Upper Two qui ont soumis en premier Ministre leurs offres, preuve que la coopération sino-gabonaise est au beau fixe.
Outre la construction de l’aéroport d’Andem, chacune ambitionne de développer d’autres projets de l’Etat gabonais toujours dans le domaine du transport, c’est ce que rapporte GabonReview, puisque pour ce qui est de China Railway 20, ils se proposent en plus, de créer une nouvelle compagnie aérienne, construire le port multimodal de Mayumba, construire le chemin de fer Mbigou Mayumba, long de 320 kilomètres avec 20 gares ferroviaires, mais  également de construire 4 parkings à étages dans la capitale gabonaise, ainsi que des ports secs à Libreville, Makokou, Bitam et Ndendé.
Tous ces projets seront financés par la partie chinoise comme l’a indiqué le représentant de China Railway 20: «Nous avons été invités par le ministre en charge de Transport. Au regard de projets retenus par le gouvernement dans le cadre du plan Gabon émergent, nous venons apporter notre contribution à la réalisation de ce gros projet. Et les financements liés à ces projets proviendront de l’Etat chinois, étant donné que CR20 est un groupe étatique chinois»
Pour sa part Upper Two, a pour ambition «la création d’une compagnie aérienne et le désengorgement de la ville de Libreville, à travers la mise en circulation d’un métro de mer pouvant rallier également Port-Gentil»; a déclaré son représentant. Selon lui, ces projets sont importants «en ce sens qu’ils vont permettre de rallier facilement les neufs provinces à la capitale, mais également d’acheminer plus rapidement des marchandises à moindre coût sur Port-Gentil».
Ne reste plus qu’à définir les bases d’un partenariat gagnant-gagnant avec l’une ou l’autre, et c’est là le plus difficile. 
L’aéroport actuel de LBV est à moins de 25% de sa capacité.
Celui de POG proche de 0 %.
Le financement de ce projet ne serait-il pas plus utile autre part.
La route nationale ou celle de Port-Gentil ?

Le Gabon veut s’inspirer de Singapour pour réactiver le projet d'urbanisation « Grand Libreville »





() - Actuellement en visite à Singapour à l’invitation des autorités du pays, le Vice-premier ministre gabonais en charge de l’urbanisme, de l’habitat social et du logement, Bruno Ben Moubamba, a entamé le 29 décembre une journée de travail avec des personnalités singapouriennes. A l’ordre du jour : la réactivation du projet de « Grand Libreville » porté à l’époque par l’Anuttc (Agence nationale de l’urbanisme, des travaux topographiques et du cadastre).
Avec les partenaires singapouriens, le membre du gouvernement a planché sur les limites schéma directeur d’aménagement urbain qui, partant de la Baie des Rois et incluant les communes d’Akanda et d’Owendo, pourrait se projeter au-delà de Ntoum et peut-être même jusqu’à Kango. « Lorsque l’on visite Singapour, chacun peut se rendre compte que le miracle singapourien en matière d’urbanisme n’a été possible que dans le strict respect de la loi. Il y a 40 ans seulement, à peine une génération, Singapour n’était que bidonvilles, pauvreté, chômage, au même niveau que nombre de pays africains d’aujourd’hui, dont le Gabon », relève le Vice-premier ministre.
Le coût du projet « Grand Libreville » est estimé à 514 milliards de FCFA. Il est question de réaliser, entre autres, un port môle avec un plan conceptuel permettant le développement de commerces, zones de loisirs, restauration, marina, port pour petits bateaux de pêche et bateaux de plaisance et un service ferry. L’Etat veut aussi, à travers ce projet, développer un prototype conceptuel pour des habitations à loyer modéré avec comme objectif la construction de 5000 habitations dans des quartiers au Nord et à l’Est de Libreville, desservis par des transports en commun et l’implantation de services publics.
Sylvain Andzongo

Unfortunatly the Vice-premier was fired.

Librevile or Kigali?

Libreville has a beach but Kigali doesn't have. So Libreville can be beautiful, but political situation in Gabon is very precarious.

Libreville, Palais de conferences


 One the most beautiful conference center, which has been demolished ,  to be remplaced, we don't know why, this building was one of best in all Africa.

Libreville in the past , green city.


A master piece the famous "immeuble du pétrole " Libreville , Gabon,


It should be more greater than it, It seems that money for this project has been stolen. It 's one of the best building for the country.

Hotel le meridien Libreville

 
 I like the design of this hotel, reflecting Gabonese patterns and style.
On the shores of the Komo estuary, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and in the heart of the city, Le Méridien Re-Ndama Hotel boasts a wide variety of facilities for meeting and leisure activities in Libreville, Gabon, as well as a delectable cuisine.
Furthermore the hotel is ideally located to explore the celebrated sites of Libreville, such as the Museum of Art and Culture, la Pointe Denis' beaches, le Marché Artisanal, the Presidential Palace, and the architecture of L'Eglise St-Michel.
Discover this Le Méridien Hotel in Libreville and enjoy all the international standards the hotel has to offer.




Okoume Palace Intercontinental Hotel Libreville Gabon

 

The Old Okoume Palace Intercontinental is under a new management, its new name is Radisson Blue. The new owner is the group Carlson Rezidor.


Hotel Dialogue in Libreville , Gabon

Hotel le Gamba in Libreville.

Beautifful sunset , this picture was taken around 1980. Gabon was the attraction of french people during the boom of oil in Gabon.

Hotel in Libreville


Libreville capital of Gabon