Recent disputes over port development work illustrate some of the problems facing potential investors. In mid-March a team from Bouygues, a French firm, was prevented by local people from carrying out a survey of a proposed ferry port in the capital, Moroni. Local opposition centred on the need to demolish property to make way for the port, concern about land rights in the area and the lack of information about the planned scheme. Controversy over the port resulted in the removal of the mayor of Moroni, delays to the signature of the ferry port agreement-which forms part of a EUR4m (US$5.6m) scheme for an inter-island ferry service-and a decision by Bouygues to withdraw from the project.