With global experience in architecture and urban planning, as the designer of new cities, passionate about African industrial history, inspired by the fabulous history of the Silk Roads, committed to creating jobs for youth, and concerned with the judicious exploitation of natural resources in Africa, Pierre ATEPA GOUDIABY is the initiator of this West African industrialization project based on the transformation of iron ore and bauxite.
The project includes the following components
Steel Industry
Energy
Environment
Infrastructure
Training
"The New Road of Steel and Aluminum" is a sub-regional West African project targeting seven countries: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, Mali, Mauritania, Liberia, and Senegal, based on the assessment of potential and infrastructure in these countries. The project is managed by a multidisciplinary team responsible for defining its contours and orientations, understanding its challenges and issues, developing a deployment strategy, and promoting it.
In an effort to embody the spirit of the new natural resource management framework regarding local content, the project will be implemented by a consortium of companies and African industry leaders from partner countries, as well as expertise from elsewhere. The project is designed as a public-private partnership.
The first phase of the project, which requires approximately three billion dollars in funding, includes, for example:
A mineral port in POTOU (Louga region, Senegal) capable of accommodating ships transporting iron ore, bauxite, and all raw materials already available in the sub-region;
The construction of the port of Buba in Guinea-Bissau and other infrastructures necessary for the proper execution of the project;
The modernization of the port of Pepel in Sierra Leone;
A steel park composed of foundry networks and the exploitation of all value chains derived from raw materials, capable of transforming not only the iron ore currently or later exploited but also the scrap collected in ports, dumps, and other storage places;
A shipyard for the construction of fishing boats and later very large ships;
A ship dismantling yard, especially for end-of-life tankers, thus participating in recycling in accordance with the international commitments of partner countries in terms of sustainable development;
A marketing network whose primary objective is to ensure self-sufficiency in finished products derived from the basic natural resources abundantly found in our countries;
A multimodal transport network, particularly by sea and rail.
The project "The New Road of Steel and Aluminum," in close collaboration with the public authorities of the different countries, will rely on:
The availability of natural and energy resources, the training of human resources, technology transfer, and the enhancement of scientific potential through research, engineering, and artificial intelligence, and environmental protection for sustainable development;
The mobilization of funding through various vehicles that allow for adequate fundraising and reinforce the macroeconomic stability of the countries: Public-Private Partnership, intervention of investment funds with state guarantees, real estate participation, recourse to the bond market, mortgaging of natural resources, exploitation of land and infrastructure, Green Funds, etc.;
The pooling and securing of resources to make tensions around power issues "impossible and unthinkable." For Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, the time for the industrialization of Africa has come, and the awareness of its implementation is the responsibility of African private companies, aided by the spheres of political decision-making.
Pierre Goudiaby Atepa
Energy
Environment
Infrastructure
Training
"The New Road of Steel and Aluminum" is a sub-regional West African project targeting seven countries: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Sierra Leone, Mali, Mauritania, Liberia, and Senegal, based on the assessment of potential and infrastructure in these countries. The project is managed by a multidisciplinary team responsible for defining its contours and orientations, understanding its challenges and issues, developing a deployment strategy, and promoting it.
In an effort to embody the spirit of the new natural resource management framework regarding local content, the project will be implemented by a consortium of companies and African industry leaders from partner countries, as well as expertise from elsewhere. The project is designed as a public-private partnership.
The first phase of the project, which requires approximately three billion dollars in funding, includes, for example:
A mineral port in POTOU (Louga region, Senegal) capable of accommodating ships transporting iron ore, bauxite, and all raw materials already available in the sub-region;
The construction of the port of Buba in Guinea-Bissau and other infrastructures necessary for the proper execution of the project;
The modernization of the port of Pepel in Sierra Leone;
A steel park composed of foundry networks and the exploitation of all value chains derived from raw materials, capable of transforming not only the iron ore currently or later exploited but also the scrap collected in ports, dumps, and other storage places;
A shipyard for the construction of fishing boats and later very large ships;
A ship dismantling yard, especially for end-of-life tankers, thus participating in recycling in accordance with the international commitments of partner countries in terms of sustainable development;
A marketing network whose primary objective is to ensure self-sufficiency in finished products derived from the basic natural resources abundantly found in our countries;
A multimodal transport network, particularly by sea and rail.
The project "The New Road of Steel and Aluminum," in close collaboration with the public authorities of the different countries, will rely on:
The availability of natural and energy resources, the training of human resources, technology transfer, and the enhancement of scientific potential through research, engineering, and artificial intelligence, and environmental protection for sustainable development;
The mobilization of funding through various vehicles that allow for adequate fundraising and reinforce the macroeconomic stability of the countries: Public-Private Partnership, intervention of investment funds with state guarantees, real estate participation, recourse to the bond market, mortgaging of natural resources, exploitation of land and infrastructure, Green Funds, etc.;
The pooling and securing of resources to make tensions around power issues "impossible and unthinkable." For Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, the time for the industrialization of Africa has come, and the awareness of its implementation is the responsibility of African private companies, aided by the spheres of political decision-making.
Pierre Goudiaby Atepa