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Liberia: Mittal Steel Resumes Full Operation in Bassa
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The Analyst (Monrovia)
10 March 2008
Posted to the web 10 March 2008
Arcelor Mittal Steel operating in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County has embarked on series of development initiatives in the city aimed at improving some of the damaged infrastructures left behind by LAMCO.
The company Senior Supervisor Vlado Jurcic over the weekend took Journalists on a guided tour of the company operations in Buchanan, Siahn Town other areas.
He said the tour was to silence their critics that the company was only sitting in Buchanan and doing nothing to improve the lives and conditions of the citizens and the wrecks left behind by LAMCO and other companies that operated in the areas prior to their coming.
Journalists visited some damaged railways few kilometers outside Buchanan, where rehabilitation and modernization works of the railways are taking place for immediate use by the company.
Mr. Jurcic said the rehabilitation of the rails will facilitate connection with the Yekepa station. Besides the rehabilitation of the railways, Mittal Steel said it has also brought in two high rail vehicles with dual capacity that will be used by the company on the railways for traveling from Buchanan to the Yekepa station.
He told journalists that 12 additional high rail pickups are expected in April for transport. In the Loop, rehabilitation of several damaged infrastructure and rails buried by the Oriental Timber Company were taking place.
At the Liberia Agriculture Company, Mittal Steel is reconditioning a 220 km road from LAC to Ganta at a cost US$2.2 million.
"From Buchanan to Ganta is 260 km. We will rehabilitate the road from LAC to Ganta, which is 220 km. LAC will also rehabilitate the 40 km road linking LAC to Buchanan", he disclosed.
In Buchanan, Mittal Steel Reresentative, Robert Ferguson, said for the ongoing road rehabilitation from LAC to Ganta, the company hired former Liberian firms - Westwood, SSF Corporation, Gray Construction Co. and Genesis Corporation as a way of empowering local expertise.
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He noted that Mittal Steel will pave the 72 km road Yekepa - Ganta. He said major rehabilitation of damaged infrastructure will continue until all of them are replaced with new equipment.
"We've started full skill operation in Buchanan and have recruited some qualified Liberians not only from Bassa but from other place based on merits," Mr. Ferguson added.
He disclosed that a ship is expected at the end of March at the Buchanan port to bringing in equipment that will facilitate the company full skill operation.
we the bassa association of thailand are totally against mittal steel dusty road development project,iron ore is a hot comodity in the world market presently,we liberian should,nt sit the and allow mittal steel company to make fool of us,not because we want investor to come to liberia, so we must give our resource free,what kind of insult is that,you take my resource and give me dusty road.we liberian are not stupid,we want our government to authorise mittal steel to carry out real development,not dusty road,we want all our road to be pave,these people take our resource to develop... [Read Full Text]
AcelorMittal/Mittal Steel should really come up with the facts about the work status on the railroad line from Nimba to Bassa because it is still damaged beyond repairs and require urgent replacement: the wooden rail tiles are all completely rotten; the crushed rocks which drained rain water are all buried in the soil and of no use anymore as grass, bushes and trees are grown on the line all the way from Bassa to Nimba. A clear spot to see all of this is the bridge on the Tappita-Ganta highway, where you see nothing but rotten rail tiles, bushes... [Read Full Text]
What do you really expect of this Mittal Steel? Do you think they came back with any good intention this time around? In the frist place, when you have a president who calls herself "GO-BAR-CHOP" is begging around the world and getting good money. She is not constructing roads, but patching the pot holes. Surely, you will get dusty roads from Mittal Steel.
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