The Mozambican government has expressed its commitment to removing all barriers to the mobility of people and goods and to trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), advocating reforms to this end.
“As the government of Mozambique, we reiterate our total willingness to jointly implement various initiatives to remove all barriers to mobility and trade,” said the Mozambican Minister of Transport and Communications, Mateus Magala, on Thursday (18.01).
Magala was speaking during a meeting with Zimbabwe’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development, Félix Mhona, as part of the Mozambican minister’s visit to Harare, Zimbabwe.
Magala stressed the importance of Mozambique in eliminating obstacles to the movement of people and goods in southern Africa, given that the country has rail and port infrastructures that give access to the sea and allow international trade from neighbouring landlocked states.
In this sense, he continued, SADC must work to implement reforms aimed at improving accessibility and mobility for people and goods.
Mateus Magala highlighted Mozambique’s commitment to improving the efficiency of the Beira, Maputo and Nacala corridors, which allow neighbouring countries to carry out their international trade.
Magala pointed to this month’s start of uninterrupted operation of the Machipanda border crossing, which links Mozambique and Zimbabwe, as an important step forward in boosting economic and trade ties between the two countries.
VOA
