Mozambique: Port Denies Any Loss of Traffic

Maputo — The management of the central Mozambican port of Beira has categorically denied that it is losing cargo in favour of the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam.

Cited in Thursday’s issue of the independent daily “O Pais’, the head of the Beira Trade Association, Felix Machado, claimed that this year alone Beira has lost over 500,000 tonnes of cargo to Dar es Salaam.

The figure is a fantasy. A spokesperson for Cornelder de Mocambique, the company that operates Beira port, told AIM that in…