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Watch: Minister kickstarts Inhambane channel signalling – Mozambique
2:42 CAT | 05 Mar 2021
All photos: Ministry of Transport and Communications
Minister of Transport and Communications Janfar Abdulai on Thursday initiated a project installing signalling in the Port of Inhambane access channel.
The ten buoys to be placed at the entry to the port entrance (the ‘Barra’), at a cost of about 35 million meticais, will create conditions for night navigation of the channel.
The director of the Services for Aid to Maritime Navigation at the National Institute of Hydrography and Navigation, [INAHINA ]Félix Pelembe, said that the signalling project would enable the resumption of commercial shipping and more besides.
“The start of this project is a truly historic milestone, as it will reposition the Port and Inhambane Province on the maritime navigation map on the Mozambican coast,” a statement from the Ministry of Transport reads.
This signalling project will also encompass the Inhambane-Maxixe crossing, used by around 3,000 passengers every day, and will complement the rehabilitation of the jetty bridges carried out in 2018, thereby boosting passenger comfort and safety.
Minister Abdulai said that equipping all Mozambican ports with comparable signalling infrastructure by the end of the current five-year (2020-2024) mandate was a government priority.
Later on Thursday (04-03) Minister Abdulai led the inauguration ceremony of the rehabilitated Pomene Lighthouse in Massinga district, which supports maritime navigation to a radius of up to 24 nautical miles [around 44 kilometres].
The project cost the government nearly 45 million meticais in total, and consisted of the rehabilitation of the lighthouse structure itself, the construction of a dwelling for the lighthouse keepers and the sinking of a borehole, which will also alleviate the difficulty of accessing potable water among the general population.
Source: Notícias / TVM / Ministry of Transports and Communication / Radio Moçambique
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