Mozambique: 100 tractors with trailers for passenger transport in rural areas

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Mozambique: 100 tractors with trailers for passenger transport in rural areas

2:07 CAT | 18 Jul 2025

Photo: Ministério dos Transportes e Logistica

Mozambican authorities plan to deliver 100 tractors with trailers adapted for passenger transport in rural areas with degraded roads, to minimize mobility difficulties.

The first two were delivered on Wednesday in Pemba, Cabo Delgado. Niassa, Nampula, Zambézia and Manica provinces will receive the remaining eight of the ten acquired in this first phase.

According to Paulo Ricardo, chairman of the board of directors of the Transport and Communications Development Fund (FTC), these tractors have trailers with “conditions created for comfortable transportation”.

“It was truly adapted for this reality,” the chairman stated during the vehicle delivery ceremony in Cabo Delgado province.

The adapted trailers will protect passengers from heat, dust and rain, and have padded seats and protective barriers, he explained, acknowledging that not all districts will require this type of transportation solution.

This transport model, using a tractor with a closed trailer with seating for passengers, had already been introduced in 2024 in the administrative post of Lunga, Nampula province.

Trf.fb_ — *Photo: Ministério dos Transportes e Logistica*

The Mozambican government intends to acquire 390 buses to strengthen urban and rural public transportation in the country, with nearly half of them powered by natural gas, according to information from the public tender reported in March of this year by Lusa.

The public tender launched by the FTC, open until March 25th, establishes the supply of buses for urban transportation and typical mixed-use vehicles for rural transportation, in batches.

The first batch involves the acquisition of 100 large buses, powered by compressed natural gas (CNG), for the Maputo Metropolitan Area, and the second batch provides for the purchase of 50 medium-sized buses, also powered by CNG, for the Mozambican capital.

The third lot includes 100 mid-size diesel-powered buses “intended for the provinces”. The fourth lot includes 100 more “typical vehicles for public transportation in rural areas,” and the fifth lot includes 40 buses for transporting employees of the country’s public institutions.

In the public tender information, the FTC explains that in “promoting a balance between demographic growth and investment in human development”, the Mozambican government considers urban and rural public passenger transportation a crucial factor for socioeconomic development, contributing to productivity and improving quality of life.

Source: Lusa