According to reports by the Cape Verde News Agency, Infopress, two ferries providing sea links between Cape Verde’s islands is due to be delivered at the end of 2009. They will provide links between the islands of Brava, Fogo, Santiago and Maio.

The project Cabo Verde Fast Ferry, worth an estimated 20 million euros for phase 1, includes three ferries. One of the vessels will stay on Brava island, another on S. Vicente linking the windward islands and the third will remain in the city of Praia to link Sal and S. Nicolau.

The first ferries will have the capacity to carry 158 passengers, 16 small and 3 large trucks, with containers of 20 feet in length and is expected to travel between Brava and Fogo in 20 minutes and Brava to Praia in three hours.

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