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Mozambique: Government plans to invest €193.3 million strengthening rail transport by 2030 – Photos
12:57 CAT | 28 Apr 2025
All photos: Ministério dos Transportes e Logistica
The Mozambican government announced on Saturday that it intends to invest around €193.3 million by 2030 in the duplication of railway lines and the acquisition of carriages, locomotives and wagons to reinforce the capacity to transport passengers and goods.
“In the southern and central railway system, under the direct management of the company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), we plan to invest around 14 billion meticais (€193.3 million) in the period 2025-2030 in the implementation of strategic projects,” said Minister of Transport and Logistics João Matlombe at the inauguration of three new locomotives in Maputo.
Minister Matlombe said that the government wants to invest the money in completing the doubling of the remaining 25 kilometres of the Ressano Garcia railway line in Maputo, which connects Mozambique and South Africa, and also in the acquisition of more than 30 carriages with the aim of increasing passenger transport capacity. With the same money, the Government of Mozambique intends to acquire at least 250 wagons and purchase at least 15 locomotives by 2030 to meet the growing demand for mineral transport.
The Minister of Transport and Logistics said that the three new locomotives inaugurated on Saturday, which cost 422.4 million meticais (€5.8 million), are intended to increase passenger rail transport capacity in the Greater Maputo region, acknowledging their impact on community development.
“The three locomotives we are inaugurating today are part of a batch of 15 to be acquired to increase traction capacity to meet the growing demand for transport services on the country’s southern and central railway system,” Matlombe said.
The operating results of state-owned company Porto e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) rose 55% in 2024, to almost 2.52 billion meticais (€34.7 million), and more than seven million passengers were transported, the board announced.
According to information from the chairman of the board of directors of CFM, Agostinho Langa, which Lusa had access to on April 14, this performance contrasts with the operating result of 1.63 billion meticais (€22.5 million) in 2023, a balance that is still provisional but already considered “positive”, despite the “constraints” in 2024, namely the impact of several months of post-election social unrest.
CFM operates the Ressano Garcia, Limpopo and Goba railway lines, the Beira Railway System, which includes the Sena, Machipanda and Marromeu lines, the section common to the three lines of the southern network and the Maputo manoeuvring area, the general workshops of the south and centre and the Matola Aluminium Terminal.
It also operates the fuel terminals in all national ports, the cereal and coal terminals in the port of Maputo, and the ports of Quelimane, Nacala and Pemba.
Source: Lusa
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