Thai Mozambique Logística already has five hundred million dollars available, the equivalent of 31 billion meticais, for the start, in the middle of next year, of physical construction work on the deep-water dry port of Macuse, Zambézia province.
The announcement was made this Monday, in Quelimane, at the launching ceremony of the Macuse-Chitima railway-port complex project, budgeted at more than 2.7 billion meticais.
Of the 2.7 million meticais needed to build the deep-water dry port and the railway logistics corridor, connecting Macuse, in Namacurra-Chitima, in Tete, the shareholders of Thai Mozambique Logística have already raised 500 million to start construction of the port .
In the first phase, the port, which will occupy 2.4 kilometers on the Macuse side and 2.9 on the Supinho side, will export two million tons of wood from Portucel, will have capacity for ships carrying up to 60 thousand tons of cargo, will employ 8 thousand Mozambicans, will have a logistics services park, fuel supply terminal and other components.
The Shareholder Representative of Thai Mozambique Logística, Manuel Latifo, said that by February next year, the resettlement of the 70 families affected by the project will be completed.
The President of the Zambézia Business Council, Chawal Naparia, said that local companies should be the largest suppliers of construction material, goods and services for operators of the port works.
And the Governor of Zambézia, Pio Matos, stated that the project is structuring for the province's economic growth. (RM)
