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SONANGOL UNIVERSO Uwww.universo-magazine.comniverso MARCH 2013 Angola’s reviving coffee ISSUE 37 – SONANGOL TARGETS NETHERLANDS CABINDA $1BILLION MARCH 2 MILLION BARRELS PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INSIDE: oil and gas news 2 01 3 Glenn R. Specht-grs photo Contents Universo is the international magazine of Sonangol 4 ANGOLA NEWS BRIEFING Board Members Francisco de Lemos José Maria (President), Mateus de Brito, Anabela Angola-Brazil cable project; TAAG numbers take Fonseca, Sebastião Gaspar Martins, off; satellite launch by 2016; GDP data shows David Maska Fernando Roberto, Baptista Sumbe, diversification; Cabinda industrial hub; Angola- Raquel Vunge Namibia rail connection Sonangol Department for Communication & Image Director 6 ANGOLA-NETHERLANDS RELATIONS João Rosa Santos COASTING ALONG Corporate Communications Assistants 6 Nadiejda Santos, Lúcio Santos, Sarissari Diniz, José Mota, Beatriz Silva, Paula The Dutch doing what they do best Almeida, Sandra Teixeira, Marta Sousa, Hélder Sirgado, Kimesso Kissoka Peter Moeller 14 ANGOLAN DESIGNS ON YOUR BODY Publisher: Sheila O’Callaghan Editor: John Kolodziejski Three sisters on the trail of fashion success Managing Editor: Mauro Perillo Art Director: Tony Hill 22 CABINDA: QUAYS TO SUCCESS Sub Editor: Ron Gribble Hefty investment in new infrastructure Proofreading: Gail Bonebrake Nelson 22 Production Manager: Matthew Alexander GOLDEN SHOES JOHNSON Production Assistant: Sebnem Brown 30 VISITS ANGOLA haak78 Project Consultant: Nathalie MacCarthy Group President: John Charles Gasser Top athlete tracks local progress Welcome changes Universo is produced by Impact Media Custom Publishing. The views expressed 32 STIRRING INITIATIVES in the publication are not necessarily ANGOLA’S COFFEE those of Sonangol or the publishers. oing on foot is one of the most direct ways of getting to know Reproduction in whole or in part a city and its people. In Luanda’s case, it’s also one way to without prior permission is prohibited. Projects point to greater growth 32 This magazine is distributed to a closed check the rate of the country’s economic development. circulation. To receive a free copy: Regular visitors exploring the city’s busy highways and [email protected] 41 SONANGOL NEWS BRIEFING Gbyways over the last year or two are struck by the speedy multiplication Circulation: 17,000 of shops, restaurants and cafés. Desert Runner.com Eco race win; Petro Atlético win SuperCup; two A parallel trend has been the increase in the quantity and quality more Suezmax tankers; Sonangol stake in Puma of fresh produce available in these establishments and on the colourful Energy; $1 billion debt deal; refinery foundation Davenport House displays of street-sellers. stone laid; welcome to the bridge; Sonaci signs 16 Pepper Street 41 London E14 9RP Both these welcome changes indicate two important recent LNG trader partnership; Sonangol women in United Kingdom advances in Angola: firstly, greater efficiency in logistics, permitting desert rally; Mamufeira project gets go-ahead; Tel + 44 20 7510 9595 PSVM starts up; literary prize winner Malocha Fax +44 20 7510 9596 easier flows of goods from factories, farms and fisheries, and secondly, [email protected] rising productivity in this vast land. www.universo-magazine.com Stacks of gorgeous golden pineapples and buckets of tasty lobsters 46 SONANGOL PRESS CONFERENCE Cover: Pavel Hlystov / Tony Hill symbolise much more than a bargain as prices fall – they signal Production and investment on the rise Angola’s advancing economy! John Kolodziejski 50 SONANGOL LTD CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY 46 Editor 2 SONANGOL UNIVERSO MARCH 2013 3 Angola news briefing Angola news briefing Angola-Brazil in cable link-up Cabinda Angola-Namibia rail connection ■ Telecommunications company Angola Cables launched an intercontinental fibre-optic link project industrial Anteromite on December 14. The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) will run for 6,000 km and link Luanda to Fortaleza, in the northeastern Brazilian state of hub Ceará. The cable will be used for the transmission of voice and data as part of a network connecting ■ A consortium made up of Africa to Latin America and Asia. The project will Portuguese construction groups cost $278 million and should be completed by the Edifer and Soares da Costa has end of 2014. been awarded the contract to The existing link between the three regions is build the infrastructure and seven currently carried out by undersea cables that travel buildings at the Fútila industrial hub via the United States and Europe. in Angola’s Cabinda province. Angola Cables, established in 2009 by the five The $68 million project is to main Angolan telecommunications operators, aims be completed in 12 months. The Kamene M Traça to turn Angola into the main telecommunications contract includes building roads ■ Construction of a rail connection between Angola and Namibia as a branch of the platform in Africa and dramatically increase the and electricity, water and sewage Moçâmedes Railway Company (CFM) may start in 2013. CFM board chairman Daniel availability of services. It is also expected to cut systems at the industrial park, Paxe said that the aim was to link the two countries and enable the flow of people and costs to users by 80 per cent. as well as administrative and goods as part of the regional integration process. support buildings. “The Angolan executive intends to extend its line over 300 km which will link The Fútila hub was established in Chamutete [Huíla] and Santa Clara [Cunene] on the border of Namibia,” he said. 1998 and is located on the Malembo Angola’s railway authorities are also in talks with General Electric to import a large plains, some 30 km north of the number of locomotives, which will benefit CFM. city of Cabinda. It is funded by the In the 1970s, CFM operated 72 GE locomotives, mostly to exploit iron ore traffic. The Satellite launch World Bank, Sonangol, the Angolan planned re-opening of mines at Jamba and Chamutete, together with the complete TAAG numbers take off government, the Cabinda provincial rebuilding of Angola’s two other east-west railways, means that the number of GE by 2016 government and other investors. locomotives could double. ■ Passenger numbers on Angola Airlines (TAAG) grew from 1.05 million in 2011 to 1.2 million last year. Company chief executive Pimentel Araújo ■ Angola will launch its first telecommunications satellite, said the increase in traffic would enable TAAG to purchase new planes Angosat, within three years, says Alcides Safeca, Secretary of and consequently further increase passenger numbers. State for Telecommunications and Information Technology. TAAG signed a contract with Boeing in March 2011 for three more “Construction has already begun and is led by a Russian FIGURED OUT Angola in numbers planes, with the first expected in May 2014, the second in December 2015 consortium with experience in the field,” he said. The and the third in March 2016. $40 million project is financed by a group of Russian banks The company also has the option to buy another three planes for 2019- led by Ruseximbank and VTB. The satellite belongs to the 2020, but they may be delivered earlier if required. Yamal class and will have a lifespan of 12 years. 200,000 jobs $8.8 billion created in 2012 Sonangol oil investments planned in next ten years GDP data shows diversification 4 million Angolans ■ Oil’s share in the Angolan economy’s gross domestic have gained access to water since 2008 product is expected to be around 39 per cent at the end of 2012 compared to 56 per cent in 2002, according to Álvaro Sobrinho, chairman of Angolan bank Banco Espírito Santo Angola (BESA). He said the figures are a sign that the 1.2 million $40 million economy is diversifying. TAAG passengers in 2012 the cost of Angola’s first satellite 4 SONANGOL UNIVERSO MARCH 2013 5 INTERNATIONAL ANGOLA-NETHERLANDS RELATIONS COASTING ALONG The Dutch are famous for their low-lying lands, windmills, canals, tulips and cheese, but their small country also punches way above its weight in economic terms. Universo looks at its contributions to rebuilding Angola By Lula Ahrens 6 SONANGOL MARCH 2013 7 UNIVERSO T.W. van Urk T.W. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL he Netherlands is inextricably have made it a significant trading partner According to Ambassador Terstal, and Trade, which up until now fell under linked to the sea. The country and thus well placed to support Angola’s the Netherlands can help the Angolan separate ministries. “Particularly in Angola name means ‘low lands’, and rapid economic revival. government diversify the economy. it is very interesting to see how one can indeed one-third of its territory is Susanna Terstal, Netherlands “The Dutch are experts in areas such combine those two,” she said. Tbelow sea level. Most of the rest would be Ambassador in Angola, points out that as water, transport, logistics, smart “An example is the Dutch government’s under water if it were not for the protection Holland is the third-largest exporter to grids for electricity, information and private sector investment programme of dykes, dunes and pumping stations. Angola and one of the largest investors in communications technology, the offshore (PSI), which aims to stimulate co-operation Large parts of the country were the country. Dutch exports to Angola are industry, retail, agriculture, horticulture between Angolan, Dutch and other foreign reclaimed from the North Sea, and its worth around €e200-300 million a year, and poultry.” companies. These companies started joint emblematic windmills, once considered compared to €e450-700 million of Angolan One of the areas in which the countries operations under the PSI programme new technology, were used to drain its now exports, mostly oil, to the Netherlands. form a perfect match is in potato farming. in 2013.” highly-productive farmland. The figures illustrate the fact that the “Angola’s goal is to be self-sufficient in However, independent Dutch The Dutch also have a long tradition Netherlands’ emphasis in Angola lies in its potato production within a year, and consultant Peter-Jan van As believes there as a seafaring nation.