The access channel to the port of Maputo will increase in depth from 11 metres to 14 metres, according to the port’s management company, MPDC. The move will give 80 000-ton vessels access to the port’s facilities.
Dredging of the channel is part of a strategic decision designed to help achieve the set target of 40 million tons of cargo – annually – by 2020.
It is the second time that the port’s access channel has been dredged. In 2010 it was dredged from 9.4 metres (the depth designed for the channel) to 11 metres, which contributed to the amount of cargo handled increasing from 12 million tons in 2011 to over 19 million in 2014.
