Mozambique: Ressano Garcia dry port goes into operation in March

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Mozambique: Ressano Garcia dry port goes into operation in March

1:58 CAT | 13 Jan 2021

Photo: O País

The construction of the Ressano Garcia dry port in Maputo province are 70% complete, according to Minister of Transport and Communications, Janfar Abdulai, who this Tuesday visited the infrastructure.

The goal of the new dry port, with the capacity to store 250,000 tons of chromium iron ore, is to reduce by half the average 500 heavy trucks which transit National Road Number Four (EN4) every day, carrying ore between South Africa and Maputo.

Minister Abdula explained that “a customs terminal for goods in transit is being built in the Ressano Garcia dry port, an initiative that will allow the transfer of cargo currently transported by road to the railways”.

The measure “will reduce the number of road accidents”, since at least half of the trucks on the EN4 will no longer use the road.

The dry port will start handling cargo in the first half of March, says Florbela Trancoso, head of logistics at the project, whose owner is public company Ports and Railways of Mozambique (CFM).

“We hope to complete construction by mid-February, and by the beginning of March have the terminal operational. We are not saying that we will eliminate all cargo circulating on the EN4, but we want to reduce it by 50%. The environmental impact study carried out for this area, in an initial phase, contemplates only chromium iron [ore].”

By Amandio Borges

Source: O País