5 December 2007
Maputo — Building work is under way on the first six of twelve planned silos in the northern Mozambican port of Nacala, with a capacity to store 60,000 tonnes of grains, reports Wednesday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
A spokesperson for the building company CETA, that won the contract to build the silos told reporters that the work should have started some time ago, but it took longer to negotiate with the managers of the port and the investor, concerning the space for the silos.
Fernando Couto, the chief executive officer of the Northern Development Corridor (CDN), the private-led consortium managing the port and the Nacala-Malawi railway, said construction of the silos will bring a new dynamics to the use of the Nacala corridor. He believed it would increase the use of the railway, particularly by Malawi, now that goods such as wheat could be stored in the Nacala silos.
Couto said he was particularly happy because the building of the silos comes at a time when Mozambique is working to win the Malawian market, particularly to move its sugar exports and wheat imports along the Nacala Corridor.
"A total of 12 silos are to be built plus a warehouse, with a capacity to store 60,000 tonnes of foodstuffs", said Couto. "This is a large private investment, costed at 8.5 million US dollars.
For us this is a guarantee that the investor will be a potential client of our port when the silos are completed and start operating".
CETA has pledged to finish the construction with the agreed deadline of nine months.
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