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19 Feb 2020

Port of Maputo Deepening Ops Complete

Photo: Jan De Nul Group

Jan De Nul Group reports that it has finished the maintenance dredging operations in the Port of Maputo, Mozambique, for the Maputo Port Development Company. This dredging campaign restored the depths created after Jan De Nul Group’s 2016 capital dredging campaign.Since 2017, the Port of Maputo is open for vessels up to 80,000 tonnes. Jan De Nul Group executed capital dredging works in 2016 to deepen the access channel and port basins from -11mCD to depths varying between -13.05mCD and -14.4mCD.

04 Apr 2018

Mozambique Enhances Ship/Shore Interface

When the communication between ships and port is smoothly run, shipments move more quickly, more easily and more efficiently. This is where International Maritime Organization (IMO)'s Facilitation Convention comes in. The FAL convention contains standards and recommended practices and rules for simplifying formalities, documentary requirements and procedures on ships’ arrival, stay and departure. The benefits of ratification and implementation of the FAL Convention were highlighted during a National Seminar on Facilitation of Maritime Traffic (27-29 March), held in Maputo, Mozambique. The aim was to support Mozambique to ratify the Convention, including its latest amendments.

18 Dec 2015

Mozambique Grain Terminal Fire Death Toll Crosses 15

On 13 December 2015, there was a fire and explosion at the STEMA grain terminal in Matola, part of the Maputo port complex in Mozambique. Police authorities in Mozambique have said the death toll from the fire has risen to 15. As a result of the fire, the grain unloading and transport system at the terminal was severely damaged. The Maputo provincial police spokesperson, Juarce Martins is quoted by state controlled daily paper, Noticias on Wednesday as saying charred bodies, some of them unrecognizable, have been pulled from the waters of Maputo Bay, and taken to the morgue at Maputo Central Hospital. Police say the bodies are those of thieves who attempted to steal fuel from a pipeline running past the grain terminal.

05 Jun 2001

Mersey Docks & Harbor Not Intimidated by Recession

The slowdown in the U.S. economy may be weighing on British industrial production, but ports operator Mersey Docks & Harbor Company expects to avoid the dark clouds of recession. "We have as yet not experienced any impact from the perceived slowdown in the North American market," Chief Executive Peter Jones reportedly said. The company expected instead to see year-on-year growth in cross-Atlantic traffic. Mersey Docks has about a 25 percent share of the U.S.-UK market in container traffic. "In the early months of this year we are continuing to see strong growth," Jones said. The two main areas of development would be RoRo traffic and fresh produce, handled at the company's docks in Sheerness, southeastern England.

18 Nov 1999

British Group Wins Contract For Management Of Mozambique Port

Mozambique has awarded a British consortium a management contract for its Maputo port, including a 15-year lease, according to the British High Commission. Officials said a consortium headed by the British Mersey Docks and Harbor Co. - which runs the port of Liverpool - had won the contract, which allows for the private management of the port. The agreement will reportedly lead to $50 million investment in revamping the port, though it wasn't immediately clear how this would be financed.