Ports and roadsteads, Port Mole of, Libreville, Gabon

----------------------- | PORT MOLE OF LIBREVILLE |

Characteristics:
280 m of quay to 2,5 m
( fishing boats)
Diverts sheds and warehouses.

With a surface of approximately 4 hectares, whose under 880 square meters of sheds and having a length of regular customer's quay, of 240 meters founded at 2 meters, the Môle's Port specialized in the reception of fishing boats, it also use as shelter to big pleasure-boats and to speed belonging to the Gabonese public utilities.

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A brief history of the Môle Port:

Its project of construction is born by 1945 to face the prospect of starting up of the forest economy. The works of this port will be realized within the framework of investments FIDES (Bottom of economical and social investment). It will be the major infrastructure realized in the period of front the independence of the GABON. It needs to say that the decision to build the port Môle had activated a deep debate among population of Libreville.

	The detractors of the project supported that the traffic will never be rather important in a town as Libreville, and such an investment not justified. This reaction preceded by the economical situation of the moment. In fact, the crisis of wooden sales and particularly that of, which was produced in 1952, urged a lot nobody to demand if Libreville was going to get up of this shock.

The decision was taken in spite of these questionings. The installation realized in conformance with-said works were established of one oblong Môle, protected by a dike. The work had been implanted by the Capital of 2 meters allowing the accosting of the customers every hour of the tide.

The organization realized on Môle foresan the erection of the buildings of the harbour office of the port, the customs services, the harbour sheds, including private warehouses.

At the time of the independence, the exporters represented 89 % of the traffic of the GABON among which 0,9 % passed in transit by the port Môle of Libreville.

The wood continued of being evacuated by the open checkmates of loads installed on ships. But obviously, non-floatable diverts wood, which owed to be brought by customers, were punished.

As regards to the imports, the goods arriving by the sea route were of an improbable variety. The list lengthened year by year: the fresh foods, the goods of the current consumption, the capital good…etc. The handling of all these loads made in extreme difficult conditions.

Then, the idea began to germinate in the memory of the new authorities, which yet thought to endow the country of a port in deep answering water of the National economy.