Road building and repair has been a major activity since 2002. In 2005 alone, 8,982km of roads were subject to maintenance. There has been progress in the development of the railway network, ports and airports but most activity has focussed on the renewal of existing infrastructure. Our objective now is to ensure long-term strategic infrastructure planning is linked to key areas of projected economic growth.

Madagascar currently has 6 international ports and 12 secondary ports, which benefit from the island’s unique geo-political location at a crossroads between Asia and Africa. There are 50,000 km of roads of which over 10,000 km have been renewed in the past 4 years and 900 km of railways. Madagascar is served by an international airport with regular connections to Europe, Africa and Asia.

The government will provide active assistance to high growth industries to access necessary infrastructure quickly and with minimal bureaucracy. The private sector is considered a key partner in strategic planning and development, especially for high growth areas and it is the government’s intention to improve the capacity of companies, in construction and operation and to promote private-public sector partnerships.


Investment opportunities

• Public Private Partnerships in construction
  - Development and upgrading of key transport interfaces (eg. Toamasina Port and Ivato airport)
  - Development of transport and infrastructure networks and corridors linked to economic growth engines including tourism, mining and agriculture
  - Upgrade of existing port facilities, including major extension of Toamasina Port to accommodate large capacity vessel
  - Creation of a new international airport with integrated industrial and warehousing zone and develop other key international airports in other regions with economic growth and tourism potential
  - Completion, upgrade and maintenance of the Fianarantsoa-East Coast (FCE) and Northern Rail Line to facilitate trade and tourism
  - Building of a transport network to connect all key growth areas with necessary infrastructure
  
  
• Development of public works
  
  
• Management of major infrastructure
  
  
• Development of supporting infrastructure e.g. cold storage and storage of products for export at major production sites.