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Mozambique's Maputo up 22pc to 18.2 million tonnes in 2017
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THE Port of Maputo, in Southern Mozambique, Port of Maputo did well in 2017, enjoying a 22 per cent year-on-year increase in cargo to 18.2 million tonnes.
The result was helped by the dredging of the access channel to the port, completed in January 2017, reported Britain's Port Technology.
Before dredging, with the channel 11 metres at best, meaning only 50,000 - 55,000-tonners could dock there.
Maputo won much praise for standing in for desperate citrus fruit shippers, who could no longer use Durban during the three week South African transport strike in May and June of 2010.
"The dredging resulted in an increase of 40 per cent to the average parcel size for Maputo Main Port and a 55 per cent increase for Matola," he said.
Also noted was that in 2016 the Maputo 955 vessel calls and only 896 in 2017, yet those fewer ship carried 3.3 million tonnes of cargo.
Maputo is preparing to receive vessels of even greater drafts, with the rehabilitation of berths 6, 7, 8 and 9 (a total of 1,058 metre of berth) which will begin in the second quarter of 2018.
The result was helped by the dredging of the access channel to the port, completed in January 2017, reported Britain's Port Technology.
Before dredging, with the channel 11 metres at best, meaning only 50,000 - 55,000-tonners could dock there.
Maputo won much praise for standing in for desperate citrus fruit shippers, who could no longer use Durban during the three week South African transport strike in May and June of 2010.
"The dredging resulted in an increase of 40 per cent to the average parcel size for Maputo Main Port and a 55 per cent increase for Matola," he said.
Also noted was that in 2016 the Maputo 955 vessel calls and only 896 in 2017, yet those fewer ship carried 3.3 million tonnes of cargo.
Maputo is preparing to receive vessels of even greater drafts, with the rehabilitation of berths 6, 7, 8 and 9 (a total of 1,058 metre of berth) which will begin in the second quarter of 2018.