Algeria is to spend $1.9bn on a port about 70km west of Algiers. The scheme, which will be one of the largest infrastructure projects in Algerian history, is to begin next year.
The announcement was made by Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal. He said that the project would not be paid for by the Algerian government, and that the Ministry of Transport was looking for ways of financing the work.
Bouchouareb Abdessalem, the minister for industry and mines, later invited Chinese port operators to participate in the scheme, which he said would give Chinese manufacturers an opening to the markets of Africa, southern Europe and the Arab countries.
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