Apia, Samoa – Thursday 4th July 2024
As part of its 25th Anniversary Celebration this week, the Samoa Ports Authority, officially opened its Domestic Ports Upgrade Project this morning, at the Salelologa Port in Savaii.
The program started with the opening prayer by Rev. Asosili Suesue of the Salelologa Methodist Church, followed by the Keynote Address delivered by the Hon. Olo Fiti Afoa Vaai, Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure.
The Hon. Minister also made a charity presentation to the Mapuipulotu Organisation, and the program concluded with an inspection of the upgraded Salelologa Port.
Since the official handover of the domestic ports in Mulifanua and Salelologa from the Samoa Shipping Corporation on the 1st October 2022, the Authority started with the upgrade project firstly at Mulifanua Port. The Mulifanua works completed in July 2023, and the Salelologa works commenced right after up to now.
The upgrade project including the refurbishment of the departure lounges with comfortable seats and provision of television sets for entertainments while waiting, the improvements of pensioners’ lounges and business class suites, the construction of new shops for the private businesses, installation of a new fence and reconstruction of the car parking areas.
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SOURCE –Samoa Ports Authority
