HSM Set to Launch the New Mogadishu International Airport

[geeljre49]

I think the most important thing is moving the port. I was in Xamar last summer and having a port in the center of the city is an absolute nightmare. The trucks are loud, block the street, and make it hard to get across the city. More money should go into the port than the airport, including new roads such as a ring highway around Xamar. This will mean that trucks that want to go south of Mogadishu don’t need to actually go through the city. That will limit congestion in the city massively and ease the traffic burden.

I’m a little bit wary of the Turks building/owning the port. Candidly speaking, they haven’t done a great job in infrastructure management in Xamar thus far, especially when you compare Mogadishu’s port to Berbera. Relocating the port should make it more efficient but the gov should be smart about how they allocate the funds (which they won’t be lmao)

Correct. The current port location is a hinderous being right in the city centre. According to the website, The port will have a handling capacity of 200-300k TEUs annually in the first phase and should handle 5 million - 8 million tonnes of cargo per year during phase 1.

Question is where would they get the funds for all this as well as the Airport, Renewable energy source and SEZ? Guess it will be revealed Thursday

 

[AlteKartel]

Correct. The current port location is a hinderous being right in the city centre. According to the website, The port will have a handling capacity of 200-300k TEUs annually in the first phase. And should handle 5 million - 8 million tonnes of cargo per year during phase 1.

Question is where would they get the funds for all this as well as the Airport, Renewable energy source and SEZ? Guess it will be revealed Thursday

Honestly speaking I think they’re selling us a dream lol. They won’t be able to do everything they want to do. If HSM is smart he will prioritize the port but that is unlikely.

 

[Vacelere]

I don't know buy I belive building a new airport isn't really a priority now.

We should build infrastructure in cities and face terrorism.

A new big airport in unstable country is useless, it will only bring more debts to somalia with very little gain.

 

[geeljre49]

Honestly speaking I think they’re selling us a dream lol. They won’t be able to do everything they want to do. If HSM is smart he will prioritize the port but that is unlikely.

Yeah looks like it. Website has really poor design too lol. I think the Airport is definitely happening and if the port does too, that will do considering the many other problems our nation faces .

 

[AlteKartel]

Yeah looks like it. Website has really poor design too lol. I think the Airport is definitely happening and if the port does too, that will do considering the many other problems our nation faces .

Berbera port is genuinely a great piece of infrastructure. As someone who is from Mogadishu I think an issue we have is that we invest in making pretty things rather than stuff that makes sense. There are 7 story apartment buildings all over Mogadishu but the roads in front of them are dirt roads or they have no drainage and flood when it rains too hard.

Of course infrastructure should be the purview of the government and not private investors but instead of a new airport I would much rather prefer that the Gov identifies key areas in the city that water drains to and build pipes that prevent them from flooding every time it rains. We want to skip the common-sense stages of development and get right to the flashy stuff, even when the ROI is tenuous.

 

[Jungle]

Abgaals even own bbs mall in Nairobi economically they ain’t playing

I'm much more impressed by BBS mall tbh than the development of south middle shabelle which was always expected.

 

[killerxsmoke]

 

[Basra]

 

[Affliction]

Hope al kebab doesn’t do anything stupid

 

[CABDULWALI XASAN.]

I think the most important thing is moving the port. I was in Xamar last summer and having a port in the center of the city is an absolute nightmare. The trucks are loud, block the street, and make it hard to get across the city. More money should go into the port than the airport, including new roads such as a ring highway around Xamar. This will mean that trucks that want to go south of Mogadishu don’t need to actually go through the city. That will limit congestion in the city massively and ease the traffic burden.

I’m a little bit wary of the Turks building/owning the port. Candidly speaking, they haven’t done a great job in infrastructure management in Xamar thus far, especially when you compare Mogadishu’s port to Berbera. Relocating the port should make it more efficient but the gov should be smart about how they allocate the funds (which they won’t be lmao)

I remember you talking about this, You mustve really hated truck traffic lol. I think its due there being no highways, ringroads or any of that and it just opens to the wider city. Even when they build the new port, they will develop around it. Same thing across the developed world, but trucks route through the highways and are not a problem, and its also in a zoned industrial area.

Youre right, the somali government should always limit co ownership with a foreign country.

 

[iley]

We really need highways... I remember our driver got our van stuck in sand while we were in baadiyo. Was not fun experience

 

[therandomone]

Mogadishu needs a new port not airport. It also needs to invest in public transport, policing, city wide swerers, water pipes and more trees.

 

[therandomone]

Hsm is the most corrupt politician in Somali history too, it won't happen or even start under him

 

[hayran]

will the arrival gate have a horde of random guys shouting your name (which they know magically) that try to hustle some service fee from you?

i had to get physical last time because a darawal was holding onto my luggage and wanted money because he picked out my bag

 

[hayran]

Mogadishu needs a new port not airport. It also needs to invest in public transport, policing, city wide swerers, water pipes and more trees.

yes a new airport is necessary, current one cant even handle larger wide body aircraft. a capital city shouldn’t have a small regional tier airport as it’s main one

 

[TekNiKo]

I think the most important thing is moving the port. I was in Xamar last summer and having a port in the center of the city is an absolute nightmare. The trucks are loud, block the street, and make it hard to get across the city. More money should go into the port than the airport, including new roads such as a ring highway around Xamar. This will mean that trucks that want to go south of Mogadishu don’t need to actually go through the city. That will limit congestion in the city massively and ease the traffic burden.

I’m a little bit wary of the Turks building/owning the port. Candidly speaking, they haven’t done a great job in infrastructure management in Xamar thus far, especially when you compare Mogadishu’s port to Berbera. Relocating the port should make it more efficient but the gov should be smart about how they allocate the funds (which they won’t be lmao)

They should build a new port in Warsheekh or near Jazeer. The traffic is gruelling between Xamar jabjab and lambar afar.