AwRastaale wrote:Maydh has potentials and in today's world anything can happen. We live in the age of disruptive business.
So many businesses and infrastructures thought they were too big to be touched but have since being taken care of the smaller fish.
Maydh can win over businesses with pricing, services, serve all let all invest, work and live.
Also climate is far more attractive.
It's closer to tourism hotspot Sanaag and can serve so many nomads.
The Erigabo road has to be extended.
Who knows who wants to invest there tomorrow.
Indeed,we don't even have to look far many places in Somali areas were villages 2 decades ago and today they are 3x the size
of Berbera. The landscape of Maydh also it is to kill for. You should create a "Welcome to Maydh" poster for it.
Look at the background it looks like something out of Hollywood blockbuster beach movies.
JSLHistorian wrote:
At least $5 million. It is being funded by SDF (Somaliland development fund) and businessmen interested in the area such as
that Musa Carre tycoon Mohamed Yusuf Ali Gurey.
Funded by Mashruuca kaalmada Somalia via SDF, know where your Money is coming from. Apparently the doners allocated 5 million budget per city Somaliland gets 6 to 8 city each receives 4 to five million per city for development of what ever they chose.
Puntland get same and Gamudug apparently they give Cabudwaaq and balanbale 5 million each for whatever development they choose via CPD a local agency equivalent of the SDF of Somaliland.
You can't only built good stuff for your own money these doners Money do little it's qawda maqashii waxna ha u qaban
Moryaan kid broke Somalia has nothing to do with it. The money is from the IC (International Community) and thus is it distributed
among all sides of the former Somali republic.
You just repeated what I said my friend, money from doners or IC won't build nothing, by the time all the middle mans NGOS get some of the small cake there will be zero money left for the local company to build. It's call qowda maqashii waxna ha u qaban.
Mooriyaan Wait's no body we build things our self the little things we can afford. That is why we gave those useless IC projects to Cabudwaaq and Balanbale
What would a business man like Maxamed Yusuf profit from investing in a public port?
How would he get his money back given that all tax revenues will be taken by the government?
Let me say something about the import/export business. In SL taxation is uniform. if you import say petrol from Berbera, Saylac or Maydh, you will be levied on the same taxes. That means small ports can't compete with Berbera because of efficiency reasons i.e. better machinery, equipment and infrastructure, and because of economies of scale. The only way they can compete is if they evade taxes and smuggle staff.
Few produces such as incense Foox/maydi that are exported from some small eastern ports are exceptional to the rule. Exporters of those produces don't pay taxes and they are not bothered by the government because their coastal villages are bit far from and are not properly connected to major cities. The day infrastructure reaches and the right taxes are levied, I believe, those small ports won't be able to export Meydi/Foox. By the way, no one including the small ports earn any revenue from those kind of exports.
I am not sure about the Yamani Khat import, I ill look into it. it is possible it to be competitive against Ina Afdiinle khat around Maydh and surrounding because the distance Ina Afdiile qaad had to travel.
In Somaliland, the further a port is from Berbera and the poorer the infrastructure connecting to it, the more competitive it becomes. Western ports are too close to Berbera to be competitive and the eastern ports are affected by Bosaso port. When DPW investment comes to Berbera, forget about the small insignificant SL ports, it will even absorb Bosaso port if Somalia/puntland do not seal their border and impose tariffs on goods coming from SL.
When the ministry of finance is writing tax policy for a particular import item, for example cigarettes, it does not take into account where it entered the country. It might enter from Berbera port or Lawyocado border or Wajaale or any other place, the tax rate is the same.
communities investing in ports won't by any different than say communities investing in roads in their regions. These acts are none profit, charitable acts.
Small ports are as useful as roads. They help local communities catch fish more efficiently hence growing the economy. they even assist travel and make it cheaper and easier. for example, if there was functioning small/medium ports in Saylac and Maydh, it would have been quicker and cheaper to travel through sea then go through the road. So, more ports are not bad.
By the way, Berbera is no longer a clan port, DPW will take over soon, employ their staff and manage it.
Maydh should compete with bosaso port for the sanaag region, which is the biggest region in former Somalia. I applaud the kulmiye government for this development . There will be a solar storage for the local caught fish to be installed as well.
SuldaanOfSanaag Yes he is originally from UK. Where do you have the land, east of Maydh or west of it? I think the east has
the most potential to expand as it is flat, the land in west of Maydh up to Ras Jilbo is too hilly and mountainous though.
AwRastaale wrote:Berbera is not a public port but the property of reer at least how locals treat it and see it.
I have no issues with that.
Other ports are also reer X and Y ports.
And tariff across ports will not be uniform.
The taxation is however.
Simple q for you is will SL decide how much Berbera charges clients including Ethiopia or is that DP's job?
On the same manner Maydh port authority decides what it charges and gov is to charge taxes on sales/GST.
Also as a business man gov is not going to decide for me which port I use to import.
If people and businesses do not innovate and have the right attitudes they will go under.
They once used to say no one can compete with Zeila. Where is it now?
Berbera is a ghost town in most part of the year and unleas the Arabs can turn it into new Dubai, people will continue to leave.
All the cities that were younger including Hargeisa are much bigger today.
Every community can build their port in my book.
I endorse Maydh, Xiis, and that new one.
Zeila was knocked out by Djoubiti which is next door and has a ready market(Harar was also knocked out in the process).Maydh's port is ready for who exactly? is it ready to serve a bunch illiterate HY geeljires who don't have anything and their land looks like Mars.
The next Kulmiye govt should invest in Las Qoray.We will make sure these HY badow do not try to compete with HA.
