Beira Port, in Sofala, will handle seven million tons of fuel annually after the expansion works on the infrastructure, which began this Tuesday (6), in that central region of the country, according to Lucas Vidigal from the executive board of Ports and Railways of Mozambique (CFM) Central.
“We will begin a project to expand the terminal’s capacity from the current five million tons to seven million tons annually,” said the official.
According to Lucas Vidigal, the infrastructure involves the installation of two new 16-inch pipelines, covering five kilometers, increasing the diesel and gasoline transport lines and reducing ship waiting times at the port.
“We have had several ships in transit, with many parcels, and we currently load 1,500 cubic meters per hour. With two arms, we will increase to about 3,000 cubic meters per hour. At the moment, the average is three days per ship, and with this increase, it will go down to one day,” he explained.
The President of the Republic, Daniel Chapo, warned in December about the need to create an entity to impose “order and discipline” on the various operators at Beira Port, to make the infrastructure “more efficient.” “We will continue to work so that, in a coordinated way, we design a master plan to have a single entity that imposes order and discipline on everyone involved in the port, and so we can develop all these concerns in a coordinated manner and make this facility more efficient than it is today,” Chapo said during a visit to the port infrastructure.
This entity, among other tasks, will lead the master development plan for Beira Port, preventing various concessionaires from making “uncoordinated investments,” which compromise its efficiency, the President added.
Source: Lusa
