MARRACUENE | Casino | Proposed

[musiccity]

Marracuene — A group of businessmen from the autonomous Chinese region of Macau want to build a casino on the new premises of the Maputo International Trade Fair (FACIM), in Marracuene district, about 30 kilometres north of the Mozambican capital.

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, the closing day of the 2011 edition of FACIM, the chairperson of the Mozambican Export Promotion Institute (IPEX), Joao Macaringue, announced the Chinese request - but gave no details.

"There are some Macau businessmen based in South Africa who came here, and they are interested in setting up a casino", said Macaringue.

He said this was just one example of the many contacts made during the week long trade fair. The casino project, he added, was one of the proposals to make the new FACIM site, built just four months ago, profitable throughout the year.



"Interest has also been expressed in building hotels", said Macaringue. "The Investment Promotion Centre (CPI), in coordination with the government, has taken Marracuene district as the reference point for all the initiatives now appearing to increase accommodation capacity".

He added that IPEX is now working with the Maputo provincial and Marracuene district authorities in order to draw up a master plan for the ground granted to FACIM, which will make it possible to allocate particular areas to particular facilities.

Macaringue said that IPEX still has a plan to build a multi-use pavilion on the FACIM premises - but has not yet succeeded in raising the 45 million dollars of investment that will be needed.


But in addition to such a pavilion, IPEX faces the challenge of ensuring that facilities are available on the FACIM site so that it can be used all year round, and not just for the week or two of the annual exhibition.

In the short term, this will include improvements to the existing children's playground, and the building of restaurants. Macaringue added that IPEX also hopes to use the premises for specialist fairs and meetings. For example, a livestock fair will be held within the next six months.

He gave an upbeat assessment of this year's FACIM. Despite FACIM's move away from its original premises in central Maputo, thousands of people have visited the fair. Macaringue said that by Saturday 63,000 people had visited FACIM, considerably more than the target figure of 60,000.

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[alama]

Thanks MC, wherever did you find this info? Would u mind giving me the source or a link to it? Thnks.

[Roguespear]

Boas Alama

Já tinha ouvido esse rumor já vai algum bom tempinho.... com localização do mega projecto para a frente maritima da baixa do Maputo eles têm de deslocar a FACIM para Marraquene.
è sempre assim... do rumor á oficialização passam sempre alguns anos o que faz com que nos esqueçamos por completo.
O proprio projecto da frente marítima do Maputo já tinha ouvido falar há pelo menos uns 10 anos quando a minha irmã foi ao Maputo.
Um pouco como o TGV ou o novo aeroporto aqui do "burgo".... fala-se..fala-se... passam os anos e nada... agora talvez só lá para 2020.... se...se... e só se... embora todos saibamos que são necessários a curto, médio e a longo praso!....segundo documentação que aqui tenho, o NAL só ficaria finalizado na sua capacidade máxima lá para 2100......
pois.... já cá não estou para ir á "vernissage" da inauguração para aproveitar o beberete e os salgadinhos!

[alama]

Bom saber Rogue, infelizmente é assim mesmo que acontece, a maioria dos projectos só passam pelos nossos tímpanos, vamos a prática: NADA!
Mas o aeroporto deve estar em construccao, demolirão tudo e agora estão a finalizar a terminal doméstico(os chineses)...

[Roguespear]

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[Roguespear]

a cerca do novo aeroporto do Maputo, vou passar o que ia dizer para a devida secção...