DP World, China Harbour Vie for Roles in Sudanese Ports Bloomberg 3/2/2021 Mohammed Alamin
(Bloomberg) DP World, China Harbour Engineering Co. and an unidentified Qatari company are all seeking roles in Sudan’s ports, intensifying a global tussle for influence on a key stretch of the Red Sea coast.
Sudan’s state-run Sea Ports Corp. is considering China Harbour’s offer of $543 million in funding to expand facilities at the historic port of Suakin, the head of the board of directors, Abdul Gadir Abu Ali, said in an interview. The African nation would repay the sum over 30 years, he said.
Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. March 2, 2021
Guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81). (Photo: John Philip Wagner, Jr. / US. Navy)
A U.S. naval destroyer docked on Sudan’s Red Sea coast on Monday in the latest sign of thawing relations with the United States, a day after a visit by a Russian frigate.
The visits are a sign of international competition for influence in Sudan, which sits in a volatile region bridging the Horn of Africa, the Gulf, and North Africa, following the 2019 overthrow of long-time ruler Omar al-Bashir.
Some 300 marines standing at attention aboard the USS Winston S. Churchill were greeted by a Sudanese military band in Port Sudan, a strategically important city on the Red Sea that serves as Sudan’s main port.
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