The Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Fisheries, Major General Salem Al-Soqotri, met today, at the Ministry’s office in the capital, Aden, with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) team headed by Mr. Tom Trud, Director of the Program’s Fishing Port Rehabilitation Project, and the HS Company team. ) International is the consulting company for preparing technical studies for the rehabilitation of the fishing port, headed by its CEO, Engineer Hani Al-Sahouli, and the team of Al-Haidari Company, which undertakes to salvage sunken ships from the port basin, headed by its director, Muhammad Abdel Salam, in order to discuss a number of issues related to the project to rehabilitate the fishing port in the capital, Aden.

   During the meeting, arrangements for the restoration of the fishing port’s 530-meter pier designated for docking fishing vessels of various sizes were discussed. Minister Socotra listened to a briefing from the UNDP team and the consulting company preparing technical studies for the rehabilitation of the fishing port on the level of progress achieved in all stages of the studies. The construction and technical projects that were implemented in order to rehabilitate the port quay and its related infrastructure, which are to be rehabilitated within the framework of the project, and the meeting resulted in the formation of a joint engineering team that includes international and local experts from the Ministry and the United Nations Development Program to review the technical studies related to the rehabilitation of the port quay, which were prepared by the consulting company in order to take them into consideration. During implementation, with the aim of accelerating implementation and avoiding any obstacles that the project may face.

  During the meeting, Minister Al-Socotra stressed the necessity of accelerating the implementation of the port rehabilitation project and committing to completing these works according to the prepared time plan, explaining the importance of its rehabilitation in strengthening the infrastructure and achieving sustainable development in the fish sector, stressing his keenness to overcome any difficulties facing the implementation of the project, praising the efforts. Which UNDP replaces to implement the project.

   The meeting also discussed the mechanism of work for recovering sunken ships in the fishing port basin, 60% of which were recovered, as well as the facilities provided by the Ministry to speed up the recovery process. It was also agreed to redouble efforts and set a time period for completing all ship recovery work to facilitate Wharf restoration work. 

In the same context, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, along with the UNDP team and the consulting company, went to the fishing port and heard from Muhammad Abdel Salam, director of the Al-Haidari Company, which undertakes to salvage the ships, a comprehensive explanation about the ongoing work to salvage the rest of the sunken ships, which remained an obstacle to the rehabilitation and operation of the port. Throughout the past years.

 A number of heads of bodies, advisors, and general directors of the Ministry and the Gulf of Aden Fisheries Authority participated in the meeting and disembarkation.