Business trend:
Sojitz, one of
Japan’s leading trading companies, will construct and operate a seawater
desalination plant in Ghana in alliance with a Spanish company. The
construction cost is estimated at about 10 billion yen. Sojitz invests 44%, the
Spanish company 51%, and the local company 5%. The project is scheduled to
provide daily life water in Ghana’s capital Accra beginning in 2014. The
contract period is 25 years. When the contract period terminates, the water
business will be transferred to the Ghana’s water corporation.
The construction
will start coming November. The plant will have a daily treatment capacity of
60,000 tons per day that is 7.5% of the current water demand, or for 500,000
people, in Ghana. The project will employ Japanese reverse osmosis membrane for
desalination. Because Japanese companies have excellent technology in reverse
osmosis membrane technology, this project is expected to cultivate the desalination
market for Japanese companies in the Sub-Sahara Africa.
Small seawater desalination equipment
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