Fish auction in the port of Dakar
Country: Senegal
Sector: Agro-industry
Final client : Ministry of fisheries of Senegal
Finish date: 27/08/2007
This project involved the construction of a basic fishing infrastructure in the port of Dakar to ensure the safety and quality of fishery products. This industrial infrastructure ensures the professionalization of the sector, creating a price transparency system and a quality control and classification system. This facility has:
- Reception rooms for catches
- Ultra-fast freezing rooms by tunnels or cold tanks, cold rooms, ice factories and ice silos.
- Handling and packaging rooms.
- Stores for fishing gear; maquila; fishing consumables and food for crews.
- Meeting room for the Fishermen’s Association.
The ground installations are supported by mobile units that allow an adequate distribution of the fish and by the necessary equipment to guarantee a correct handling of the fishing throughout the chain of the process until its final sale.
OBJECTIVES
- Increased resources: improved product control and reduced value losses.
- Export growth through modernization and infrastructure development.
- Increased value through rationalization of the sales.
- Administrative improvement with the creation of a new regulation for the wholesale activity.
- Establishment of a regional reference center and a modern price control mechanism.
- Training of professionals in the fisheries sector.
