There are numerous infrastructure construction opportunities for American firms with most of the projects structured as public-private partnerships. In March 2016, Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works identified over $6 billion in transportation and utilities related infrastructure construction and rehabilitation projects over the next six years.
The Government objectives are to modernize railroad infrastructures and the airport equipment of safety and security in addition to maintaining, laying out and tagging the waterways in the country.
Potentials
A road network of 145.000 km, with only 3 000 km covered roads;
A 5 033 km railroad network to rehabilitate completely;
A maritime, river and Lake network of 16 238 km to tag, dredge and exploit;
270 airport Platforms to reconstruct;
2 maritime international ports to modernize;
Several ports in the country need to be equipped and dredged;
The interconnection roads of economic pools.
Health care infrastructure
Road infrastructure
Electrical generation and transmission infrastructure
Water and sewage infrastructure
Lodging Educational infrastructure
Construction of a deep-water port at Banana.
Construction of railroads, including the Banana-Matadi-Kinshasa- Ilebo railway;
Modernization of SNCC and SCTP railroads;
The modernization and equipment of the maritime ports of Matadi and Boma;
Modernization of SCTP ports in the country.
The DRC has several assets in the infrastructure sector including:
– 238,935 km of roads; 5033 km of railways;
– 500 landing tracks, 270 airports, including 101 open to public traffic, 164 private aerodromes and 5 international airports;
– 25 have paved runways; 16,238 km of waterways;
– 2513 km linear bridges (1965 bridges);
– 89 hydroelectric plants and other renewable resources.
The Agro Industrial Park of BUKANGA LONZO;
The rehabilitation of the runway of Goma airport;
The rehabilitation of Route des Poids Lourds in Kinshasa;
The rehabilitation of the road Kinshasa Kikwit;
The construction of the bridge over Loange river connecting the provinces of Bandundu and Kasai-Occidental;
The modernization of the runway and the terminal building of Nd’jili Airport;
The construction of the Hôpital du Cinquantenaire in Kinshasa; The construction of the harnessing water plant of Ngaliema;
The rehabilitation and modernization of Boulevard Lumumba;
The construction of the Hydroelectric Plant of Katende in Kasai-Occidental;
The construction of the Hydroelectric Power Plant of Kakobola in Bandundu; Rehabilitation of different universities of the country;
The construction of Cité du Fleuve;
The construction of housing as part of OASIS project in Kinshasa / Bandalungu;
The rehabilitation of the Lubumbashi-Kasumbalesa road, etc.
Legal framework
- Law n ° 14/011 of 17 June 2014 relating to the liberalization of the energy sector to the private. It applies to the production, transmission, distribution, import and export and marketing. It does not apply to plants with installed capacity is less or equal to 50kw. Non-commercial use, signal distribution facilities or of speech, scientific research facilities and of State security.
- Bill on public-private partnership is awaiting consideration by the National Assembly. This bill provides for the following forms: service contract, management and maintenance contract (leasing), rental and construction-management, build-transfer-management, etc.