Mozambique: On-board assistance and inspection fees have existed for more than a decade – @Verdade

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Mozambique: On-board assistance and inspection fees have existed for more than a decade – @Verdade

3:22 CAT | 07 Aug 2020

[File photo: A Verdade]

Contrary to what has been widely trumpeted in various reports, Mozambican border posts have not introduced any new fees for assistance and inspection. The National Migration Service (SENAMI) has clarified to @Verdade that these fees have been in existence for more than a decade, but “some border crossing posts were not collecting them”.

It was reported last Saturday (01) that the Ministry of the Interior had introduced, via SENAMI, a new fee for assisting and inspecting on-board, vehicles crossing national borders.

But a spokesman for SENAMI explained that the fees were “fixed by Ministerial Diploma 18/2016 of February 9th. However, some crossing points, although providing assistance and inspection, were not charging this fee, which is why they were instructed to start doing so”.

@Verdade consulted the aforementioned ministerial diploma, issued by the Ministries of Interior and Finance, which gives the updated Migration Service fees for assistance and inspection on-board, not only for vehicles crossing land borders but also those transiting sea and air border posts.

Ministerial Diploma No. 18/2016 also updated the fees for assistance in case of shipwreck, accompanying crews or passengers, for the displacement of SENAMI personnel to locations where on-board assistance and inspection are required, and also the amount to be paid for meals of Border Post officials.

Source: A Verdade