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The government is still looking for partners interested in developing Nacala International Airport, Transport and Communications Minister Carlos Mesquita says, and the infrastructure was recently visited by an Emirates team.
Minister Mesquita said that the airport needed commercialising and added that the government was studying two possible partnerships, which he did not specify, according to Jornal Notícias.
“The conditions that the airport offers and Nacala’s potential for development will attract the interest of international companies,” Mesquita said.
The minister also said that the government was still analysing the impact of reducing the number of international airports in the country from six to three, being Maputo, Beira and Nacala, and losing Nampula, Pemba and Vilanculos airports, even though the latter are situated in tourist areas.
Built by the Brazilian group Odebrecht with financing from the state-owned Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank (BNDES) at a cost of US$125 million, Nacala International Airport has the capacity to receive 500,000 passengers per year, although numbers are currently around 20,000.
International flights never arrived and those arriving there are two regular domestic Mozambique Airlines flights from Maputo and two private planes from the Vale Mozambique mine, all using aircraft supplier by Brazilian company Embraer.
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