Macau Hub reports that emergency dredging work at Port of Beira in Mozambique’s central Sofala province is in its final stages and is expected to be finished by next week.
Emergency dredging work on the main access channel to the port of Beira, which is some 22-kilometres long, began on July 28 last year, and was originally expected to take 14-months.
It is expected to cost around 43-million Euros, of which E23-m were paid for by the government via funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB), with E10-m in cash from port management company CFM, and another E10-m from a donation from the Dutch government’s development initiative, ORET.
Dutch company Van Oord was hired to carry out the work.
Meantime, the chairman of CFM, Rosário Mualeia, also gave assurances that dredging at the port of Maputo had been concluded, and the port was now able to receive vessels of up to 60 000-tonnes capacity.
The dredging work, costing US$15-m, began in September of last year and took around six months.
