Mozambique: Government to buy 4,000 life jackets for maritime transport operators

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Mozambique: Government to buy 4,000 life jackets for maritime transport operators

10:42 CAT | 17 Apr 2025

Photo: Conselho Municipal da Cidade de Angoche

The maritime transport regulatory authority has announced that Mozambique will spend around $300,000 (€266,000) acquiring and distributing 4,000 life jackets to maritime transport operators across the country.

“This action by the government complements the activities of the operators themselves. Even with the country’s challenges, the government is also paying attention to maritime safety,” said the president of the Maritime Transport Institute (Itransmar), Unaite Mustafa, in a statement sent to Lusa on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Mustafa had handed over 300 life jackets to the authorities in Angoche, in the northern province of Nampula.

The life jackets, to be delivered by the end of the year, will be made available to the country’s maritime passenger and cargo transport operators.

Unaife Mustafa said that, in the first phase, almost 150 passenger and cargo transport operators will be covered in 34 crossing areas in six Mozambican provinces.

“Itransmar will deliver 1,600 life jackets to operators of small and medium-sized maritime vessels in various areas of the country by the end of this month,” he added.

At least 159 people died and 109 were rescued in 38 shipwrecks in Mozambique in 2024, Unaite Mustafa recently told Lusa, pointing to the occurrence of more cases in wooden and artisanal vessels.

Of the total number of deaths recordedin 2024 by Itransmar, 98 died on 7 April last year in the province of Nampula, after a fishing boat sank off the administrative post of Lunga, in the district of Mossuril, bound for Ilha de Moçambique.

Source: Lusa