In consequence, largely, of the dangers attending its navigation, it was not visited by the European traders of the 16th-18th centuries so frequently as other regions north and east, but in the Rio Pongo, at Matakong (a diminutive island near the mouth of the Forekaria), and elsewhere, slave traders established themselves, and ruins of the strongholds they built and defended with cannon, still exist (e.g., Fortin de Boké).
Forecariah is a possible station on a heavy duty railway between Kalia mine and Matakong port for the export of iron ore.
The town in on the route of a proposed 500km long heavy duty standard gauge railway taking iron ore to a new port at Matakong.
Naigaya is near a proposed railway to a new port at Matakong for iron-ore traffic from mines at Kalia and elsewhere.
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