The Solomon Islands has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) to upgrade an international port in Honiara in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare met the vice chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, Tang Wenghong, on Tuesday and signed on to Beijing's Global Development Initiative
The port reconstruction deal is part of a $170-million project funded by the ADB to upgrade roads and wharves, which saw CCECC awarded the roads component in 2022.