This reminds me of a repartee between B. Gates, and S. Jobs in the mid 2000s, where Jobs was talking up the smart device, and Gates opined: why on earth does any one want a boxy palm device when one could have a thin laptop - MSFT was secretly incubating the Surface tablet idea at the time; here, Gates could not envisage the paradigm shift on the horizon, albeit mostly financed novel, if critical Apple projects (the two being close friends). Now, S. Wozniak's take, the de facto Apple engineer, who built the first Mac, was of a different kind.
Garacad port facts (metre):
Depth: 10.25m - 15.5m (berths A - D)
Width: 120m - 157m
Freight tonnage: 10 - 30 thousand ton ships (berths A - D).
Depth of other local ports (metre) *:
Kismaayo: 11m serves** 511 thou
Mogadishu: 10m serves 1.4 million
Berbera: 10m serves 232 thou
Bossaso: 8m, the smallest in the country, serves 1.2 million.
* to be confirmed.
** Serves in terms of population.
Distance to (km):
Galkacyo 240,
Tuur Dibi (Xadka DDS) 303,
Boosaaso 920,
Muqdisho 750,
Berbera 1,400
Funds earmarked for the project were 305 million with less than a third of the funds being used, and even though unconfirmed, the first toll-based private road might be built to connect Garacad to Tuur Dibi. The Wadaagsan group are advised to consider funding the road project, since they have got the funds in hand, and fold it into the bigger port project. As costed, they could recoup the investment in less than 10 years. A worthy investment, methinks.