Location
Comoros / Global islands
Project record
Boingoma Port expansion and climate-resilient marine works
Boingoma Port on Moheli is being rebuilt under a EUR 60 million design-build contract led by The Arab Contractors. The current delivery scope includes a 256-metre quay wall, breakwater and protected basin, dredging and rock excavation, a fixed pontoon, a 12,800 m2 yard and port buildings.
Segment
Port infrastructure
Status
World Bank and AfDB implementation records confirm works are under way; the contractor's current target is 11 August 2027 / Confirmed
Last checked
18 July 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Port infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Union of the Comoros, Ministry of Maritime and Air Transport
- Delivery parties
- The Arab Contractors Company
- Contract route
- The Comoros Interisland Connectivity Project used an open international, single-stage two-envelope request for proposals for works reference KM-PICMC-317044-CW-RFP. The contract was signed on 23 January 2024 with The Arab Contractors. The contractor records a EUR 60 million total split into EUR 28.35 million and EUR 31.65 million phases; the latest World Bank procurement plan marks the package signed.
- Execution window
- The World Bank records formal launch of the first-phase breakwater works on 29 July 2024. The contractor gives a delivery period from 12 August 2024 to 11 August 2027. AfDB's December 2025 implementation report says Boingoma works were in progress while the wider programme remained in its start-up phase.
- Works package
- Rehabilitate the damaged old quay; execute dredging and rock excavation; construct the protective breakwater and port basin; build a new quay wall reported by the contractor at 256 metres; provide a fixed pontoon for small vessels; form a 12,800 m2 storage yard; expand the warehouse; build administration, generator and security buildings; and install supporting infrastructure networks. The environmental study also describes demolition, a 140-metre turning circle at -5.5 m chart datum, armour units, a ferry terminal and reuse of suitable excavated rock in marine structures.
- Marine interfaces
- The works have to create a protected ferry and cargo basin on an exposed island shoreline where Cyclone Kenneth severely damaged the existing jetty and quay. Breakwater construction, dredging and rock excavation, quay foundations, armour placement, vessel access, a Ro-Ro and passenger interface, fish landing and the landside yard must be commissioned as one operating port rather than as separate civil assets.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- The main civil contract is already awarded and in execution. Current relevance is therefore delivery and specialist supply rather than a fresh prime-contract opportunity: marine plant, quarry and armour logistics, concrete and quay works, hydrographic survey, fenders, bollards, pontoon systems, utilities and commissioning all sit inside the active programme, but any subcontract opportunity requires a current notice from the contractor or project unit.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogAfDB recorded Boingoma works in progress
The December implementation report moves the record beyond award and mobilisation. It also shows the wider programme still in start-up, so the report cannot be read as a completed port or as proof of any accepted quantity.
SourceFirst-phase breakwater works formally launched
The World Bank implementation report identifies mobilisation and breakwater construction as the first physical phase and retains August 2027 as the whole-port completion target.
SourceBoingoma design-build contract signed
The Arab Contractors became the named works contractor under a EUR 60 million contract. Award does not establish mobilisation, production or acceptance by itself.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Measured breakwater and quay-wall progress
- Dredging and rock-excavation quantities and disposal or reuse route
- Accepted 140-metre turning circle and -5.5 m chart-datum basin
- Fixed pontoon, Ro-Ro, yard, building and utility integration
- Interim hydrography, armour and concrete quality records
- Provisional acceptance, operating handover and first sustained ferry and cargo service
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 7
- Boingoma Port expansion project The Arab Contractors, Current project page reviewed 18 July 2026
- Comoros Interisland Connectivity Project implementation status and results report World Bank, Report reviewed 18 July 2026
- Comoros Interisland Connectivity Project procurement plan World Bank, Revised 21 July 2025
- Maritime corridor implementation progress and results report, December 2025 African Development Bank, Published 24 March 2026
- Maritime Transport Corridor Development and Regional Trade Facilitation Project appraisal report African Development Bank, 26 July 2024
- Boingoma Port rehabilitation environmental and social impact study African Development Bank, 5 February 2024
- Boingoma Port project profile Comoros Interisland Connectivity Project, Current page reviewed 18 July 2026