The Port of Nacala, located in the province of Nampula in northern Mozambique, will become one of the channels through which Malawi will start importing 15 million litres of fuel a month, using rail transport.
According to a report in the newspaper Noticias this Wednesday (24), the operations, which will begin this month, have been entrusted to the company Nacala Logistics Limited, as a result of agreements signed between the company, the National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) and Petroleum Importers Limited.
Nacala Logistics Limited’s external affairs specialist in Malawi, Joyce Malongo, explained that the start of fuel imports from the Port of Nacala to Lilongwe is due to the conclusion of the rehabilitation work on the railway section linking Balaka and Lilongwe.
‘With this initiative, our country will gradually reduce its dependence on the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where import costs are high due to the use of road transport,’ said Malongo.
According to a source at Nacala Logistics, to meet the needs imposed by the Malawian government, the company has a fleet of 88 tankers, with a total capacity of 3.5 million litres per trip.
In addition, Rádio Moçambique (RM) reported a few days ago that the company had already been transporting fuel from Nacala to Blantyre, but had not yet reached Lilongwe, which was completely dependent on fuel transported by lorries. With the rehabilitation of the Balaka-Lilongwe railway line, a new era had been reached, culminating in the first shipment of coal at the beginning of this month.
