Posted on 30 August 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
At the end of September, the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) is hosting its annual general meeting and open network event at the Maputo railway station which celebrates its centenary this year. Some 400-600 stakeholders in the shipping, freight, freight clearing and forwarding, services sector, logistics, transport, port operations, cargo owners, financial institutions, industry associations, [...] [...more]
Posted on 19 July 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
On 6 July, at the end of a 24-hour official visit to Botswana, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza announced in Gaberone that the two countries are preparing a memorandum of understanding for the building of a “speedier rail link” between them. He recalled that there is an existing line but it is very long, running through [...] [...more]
Posted on 24 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Dr John Middleton of the World Bank, reported on sar-L on 30 April: “I visited Maputo and Moatize on business and this allowed a little time to see railways. CFM, MAPUTO “The station here always seems neat and clean but a pleasant surprise found on Sunday 18 April was the construction of a CFM railway [...] [...more]
Posted on 07 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
On 10 January 2005, the consortium Corredor de Desenvolvimento do Norte (CDN) took over operations of the port at Nacala – together with the 615km railway to the Malawian border – from Caminhos de ferro do Moçambique (CFM – the state railway & harbours) in terms of a 15-year concession. The 154km branchline from Cuamba [...] [...more]
Posted on 03 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
The first trial trainload of BMWs from Rosslyn near Pretoria for export via Maputo arrived recently at the Maputo Car Terminal. The discharge operation took three hours. The cars went aboard the vessel Don Quijote following its arrival in port on 25 April. A return load of 160 units off the MV Hoegh Copenhagen subsequently [...] [...more]
Posted on 02 May 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Speaking at a rally on 21 April during a working visit to Mozambique’s Niassa province, President Armando Guebuza assured local residents that the branch line between Cuamba and Lichinga is “one of the government’s main short-term concerns.” He was told that the area of Itapela – a station on the branch where the rally took [...] [...more]
Posted on 01 March 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Brazil’s prominent Vale corporation is pushing ahead with a $US1.3 billion project to develop the Moatize coal mine in Mozambique and expects to start production of coking coal for export late in 2011. At the recent Coaltrans South Africa conference held in Sandton, South Africa, Vale’s finance general manager Fabio Bechara was quoted saying that [...] [...more]
Posted on 12 February 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
More than 200 stakeholders from the public and private sectors participated in a workshop organised at Nelspruit, South Africa, on 4 and 5 February by the Maputo corridor operational efficiency working group. “Critical” issues covered included the operational efficiency of the corridor, particularly with regard to the border post, customs issues and the servicing of [...] [...more]
Posted on 05 February 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
On Saturday 30 January 2010, the first train to arrive at Moatize in the western Mozambican province of Tete in more than two decades was met by an impressive contingent: members of the central committee of the ruling Frelimo resident locally, Frelimo members of parliament, members of the provincial and district governments, and a large [...] [...more]
Posted on 15 January 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
Reconstruction work on the 574km Sena line from the central Mozambican port of Beira had reached a point only 24km from the Moatize coal basin in the western province of Tete by the end of December 2009. The Maputo daily “Noticias” quoted Tete provincial transport director Paz Catruza saying that, despite a slight delay caused [...] [...more]
Posted on 24 December 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The deadline for concluding reconstruction of the 574km Sena railway, linking the central Mozambican port of Beira to the Moatize coal basin in Tete province, has been extended yet again, from December 2009 to the end of January 2010. According to Director of the Sena Line Reconstruction Brigade Candido Jone, quoted in the Maputo daily [...] [...more]
Posted on 30 November 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The Southern African Railways Association (Sara) held its 29th board meeting in Maputo on 20 November, bringing together railway managers from across Southern Africa. Air Commodore (retd) M T Karakadzai, general manager of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), who chairs Sara, told reporters the meeting discussed such matters as capacity requirements and standardisation. He [...] [...more]
