The public company Ports and Railways of Mozambique (CFM), in the central region of the country, recorded from January until now, losses estimated in more than 20 million of Meticals, as a result of theft and vandalizing of railway equipment.
According to CFM’s Health and Safety representative, Luís Gamboa, quoted by AllAfrica website, cases of vandalism have been recurrent. In Sofala province, it was recently discovered the existence of stolen material belonging to CFM in a Chinese company.
“The company in question had previously lost its operating license due to the registration of this type of case. We therefore want to appeal to the organs of the administration of justice to help us fight this type of crime,” he said.
Gamboa also said that another case had been reported, on the section linking the city of Beira and Zimbabwe, noting that part of the equipment had been found in a steel manufacturing structure.
Due to these acts, the CFM representative said that the organisation he represents has been accumulating large losses, and that the central area of the country is the most worrying in terms of the number of reported cases.
Last year, the company, at the level of the central region, revealed that in the last three years, losses of over 60 million Meticais were registered due to vandalizing and theft of railway equipment.
The list of stolen material included rails, metallic sleepers, ballast and coupling pumps.
