A group of Chinese investors intends to build two new terminals at the port of Beira, in Sofala province, to increase the capacity for handling goods.
The group is a leading multinational in the African infrastructure construction market and initially intends to build two terminals – berths 11 and 13 – to increase the handling capacity of goods at the port of Beira, and then build another in Nova Sofala. The group is also interested in building an industrial park in the Dondo district, Sofala province, to serve the hinterland countries, as well as a dry port on the Machipanda border, in Manica.
According to the newspaper Noticias, the investors have already been to Sofala and realised that the current capacity of the Beira port is under pressure due to the flow of goods through that infrastructure.
This Sunday (22), Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane, on the penultimate day of his visit to China, held a meeting with these investors where he heard from the group’s president, Xiang Guangda, a request to speed up the analysis of the project.
On the subject, the Mozambican government official assured that the institutions linked to investment, especially the Agency for the Promotion of Investment and Exports (APIEX), are working on the dossiers to speed up the process.
“The project is well underway and we as a government are monitoring it because we are interested in seeing things happen,” explained Maleiane, noting that the dry port will help Zimbabwe’s logistics.
A few days ago, the Mozambican government announced that it intends to invest 290 million dollars in expanding and modernising the port of Beira, stressing that this is one of the most important infrastructures in the country and in the southern African region.
“The government has approved the business plan for the port of Beira, in which investment of up to 290 million dollars is planned over the next 15 years for the expansion and modernisation of the infrastructure,” said the Minister of Transport and Communications, Mateus Magala, speaking during the opening ceremony of the Business Forum for the Beira Corridor.
On the occasion, he said that the studies already carried out point to an exponential increase in the volume of containers handled at the port over the next few decades.
