The US $1 Billion multipurpose port terminal of Nacala in Mozambique’s Nampula province is due to start operating this year.

Apart from having a storage capacity of 14.5 million tons of coal, it will also have a freight car dumper and a pontoon which will allow large draught ships of over 200 000 tons to moor at the harbour.

The terminal will mainly be used by the Mozambican subsidiary of Brazilian group Vale, which since 2011 has operated a mine in Moatize where it mines 11 million tons of coal a year.

As well as the terminal and other facilities, the groups is funding construction of a 912-kilometre railroad between Moatize and Nacala, passing through Malawi, of which 684 kilometres are being rebuilt and the remainder built from scratch.

 

(Source – macauhub)