TOTSA is Mozambique’s next fuel provider

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TOTSA is Mozambique’s next fuel provider

3:06 CAT | 21 Jul 2022

File photo: TotalEnergies

TOTSA,, one of the arms of the TotalEnergies Group, will be the supplier of liquid fuels to the country from September to November of this year. According to the Mozambican Petroleum Importer (IMOPETRO), the entity which launched the tender, totsa presented the best proposal from a group of five bidders that competed to supply fuel.

The company will succeed IPG, which has been supplying fuel for the past six months. Following the launch of the tender, seven companies acquired the specifications, but only five expressed interest.

The fundamental criteria for choosing the winner were the best price, safety and reliability. Normally, tenders for imports of fuels in Mozambique have been for a maximum period of six months, but, as director of IMOPETRO João Macandja recently explained, nothing legally prevents them from being for a period of one, two, even 12 months.

“This time we opted for three months because the international market situation is not favourable. There are many uncertainties and companies always present high-priced proposals, and we also want to beware of these uncertainties in the oil market,” Macandja explained.

Macandla went on to describe how the chartering of ships to transport fuel had recently increased by over US$100 per ton, which had made logistics much more expensive, before giving assurances that the tender in question was governed by international procedures and rules similar to those specified by the World Bank.

In total, Mozambique intends to import more than 575,000 metric tons of fuel to ensure that the country’s needs are met during the three-month period in question.

This comprises 150,000 tonnes of gasoline, 400,000 of diesel and 25,000 of gas, the products to be distributed from the ports of Maputo, Beira, Nacala and Pemba.

All liquid fuel on sale in Mozambique (diesel, gasoline and kerosene) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG – cooking gas), is imported by sea in special freighters. The process is centralised by law in a single entity, IMOPETRO, which is owned by the distributors of petroleum products in the country.

Source: Diário Económico