Government taking steps against overloaded lorries

Login

Register

http://www.clubofmozambique.com/

Government taking steps against overloaded lorries

8:13 CAT | 19 Jul 2017

DW (File photo)

The Mozambican government is intensifying efforts to stop overloaded lorries damaging the country’s road network.

According to the Minister of Public Works, Carlos Bonete, transporters who disrespect the rules covering maximum loads are the main cause of the serious degradation and short lifespan of roads.

The minister was speaking in Maputo on Wednesday at the beginning of a training course for fifty technicians on issues relating to road management and maintenance. The training is part of the development support given by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

Bonete stated that the campaign against overloading is already underway. However, he pointed out that it is difficult to effectively inspect trucks throughout the whole of the country. Therefore, the focus is being placed on the roads which have received the largest investment in order to make them last for the planned lifespan.

The minister emphasised the important role that South Korea was playing in the training of Mozambican technicians in improved road management, and stressed the experience that South Korea has in maintaining its own road network.

The three-day training involves technicians from the Ministry of Public Works, provincial delegations from the National Roads Administration (ANE), the Road Fund, and the Road Training Centre (CFE).

KOICA has been training Mozambican technicians in South Korea since 2015 in the fields of maintenance, paving, and road safety.

Korea has also funded, through its Export-Import Bank KEXIM, the upgrading of the road between the city of Nampula and Nametil, a pre-feasibility study on the Nametil to Angoche stretch of road, and asphalting on the road between Nampula and Cuamba.

Source: AIM