New workshop for buses inaugurated in Matola

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New workshop for buses inaugurated in Matola

7:38 CAT | 26 Jan 2017

Folha de Maputo (File photo)

Mozambican Transport Minister Carlos Mesquita on Tuesday inaugurated a workshop in the southern city of Matola that will repair and maintain buses of all makes.

Costing about six million US dollars, the workshop results from a partnership between Mozambique and China.

It covers an area of 20,000 square metres. In addition to workshops proper, the complex also includes offices, warehouses for spare parts, an area for washing the buses, a workers’ canteen, and a station for treating waste water.

It has a capacity to maintain and repair 2,500 buses a year, particularly those that were imported from China. The services it provides include mechanical and electrical repairs, panel-beating and painting.

Mesquita said he hoped that the workshop will improve the quality, sustainability and safety of public transport, particularly in the main cities.

“We want to avoid the recurrent situation of buses which are unable to function for the whole of their useful life, because of lack of maintenance”, said the minister. This phenomenon has led to the premises of transport companies being transformed into graveyards of buses. With the new workshop it may prove possible to put some of these buses back on the roads.

The workshop will serve public and private transport companies in Maputo and Matola cities (which possess the largest bus fleets in the country), and also the inter-provincial bus fleets.

Source: AIM