About one year ahead of the completion of construction works on the Limbe Shipyard Project, President Paul BIYA, on December 31st 2006 once more highlighted the project as one of the priorities the Nation’s economic programme.

Speaking during his end address to the Nation, an occasion traditionally used to review the country’s socio - political and economic situation, the President named the creation of a shipbuilding pole as one of the major industrial projects whose implementation requires additional energy supply.

This other reference to the project, coming in the trail of the Head of State’s previous official pronouncements in this regard and two years after the elaboration of his policy of “Greater Ambitions” for Cameroon, is a further demonstration of the vital importance of the project to the industrial plan of the country and of the numerous benefits it is expected to engender as well as the Government’s commitment to ensure its smooth execution.

Stating an important input required for the country to derive optimum benefit from the Project, the President of the Republic pointed out:

“As a matter of fact, this additional energy is indispensable for the implementation of our major industrial projects, including increasing our aluminium production, creating a shipbuilding pole… “