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Mozambique seeks $544M for urban transport system
7:00 CAT | 23 Feb 2018
Mozambique’s Transport and Communications Minister Carlos Mesquita says his government needs to mobilize $544 million from foreign partners to implement the Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) system, APA can report. AGT is a non-piloted transportation system whose operation depends on computer systems and will link downtown Maputo to the Zimpeto neighbourhood, in the Mozambican capital.
Mesquita made the announcement on Wednesday during the presentation of the project’s feasibility study. The feasibility study was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) based on a memorandum of cooperation signed in April 2017 between Mozambique and Japan, to improve the quality of urban public passenger transport services in the metropolitan area of Maputo.
“The AGT Project is an expression of cooperation between Mozambique and Japan”, Mesquita declared, and the event was attended by the mayor of Maputo city, David Simango, and the ambassador of Japan in Mozambique.
“The AGT Project came to fruition with the visit to Japan of Mozambican president Filipe Jacinto Nyusi in March 2017,” according to Measquita, who added that for the implementation of the project, a team of Mozambican technicians travelled to Japan in November 2017, where they completed a training programme in installing the Urban Transport System.
Source: APA
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