Mozambique: 1 billion meticais from Road Fund managed tolls – Watch

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Mozambique: 1 billion meticais from Road Fund managed tolls – Watch

5:07 CAT | 24 Jul 2023

Chairman of the Board of Director of the Road Fund, Ângelo Macuácua [Screen grab: Miramar]

A total of seven tolls installed just over a year ago on national roads, mainly on National Highway Number 1 (N1), have yielded the Mozambican state around one billion meticais in revenue.

The information was revealed last Friday (21-07) by the chairman of the Board of Director of the Road Fund, Ângelo Macuácua, during the annual joint evaluation meeting of the PRISE 2022 Integrated Road Sector Programme.

According to Macuácua, quoted by the Fim de Semana (FDS) website, the money is already being spent on the rehabilitation and maintenance of roads, “a fact that demonstrates that the objective of installing the tolls – to generate resources to maintain the roads – is being achieved”.

The tolls were installed within the scope of the Self-Sustained Road Maintenance Program (PROASME), approved by Resolution no. 63/2020, of December 11, and have been in operation on several national roads since June 2022. Fees paid vary between 50 and 1000 meticais: Class 1 vehicles pay 50 meticais; Class 2 vehicles, 200 meticais; Class 3, 500 meticais; and Class 4, 1,000 meticais.

According to the Road Fund, these fees are applied at Chidenguele tolls on the Xai-Xai-Zandamela section; in Nhacundela, which covers the Zandamela-Lindela section; in Malova, on the Lindela-Nhachengue section; and in Mapinhane, which is between Nhachengue and Pambara, all located on the N1 in the south of the country.

There is also a toll booth at Camuaza-Chenga, on the N7 between Catandica and Changara in Manica province. Tolls are also levied at the Congerenge toll on the N13 between Lichinga and Mandimba, and on the N13 in Niassa province, at the Utukulo toll on the section, between Mandimba and Cuamba.

Watch the Miramar report.