The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) is opening the first training centre to serve all the ports of Mozambique.
Skills development has been identified as a priority for the improvement of productivity and the competitiveness of the country’s 10 commercial ports, according to the MPDC’s Soraia Abdula. Up to now the training has mainly been done in South Africa or by consultants travelling to Mozambique.
The new school will offer accredited theoretical and practical training, according to Abdula. “We want to offer internationally accredited training,” she says. The port has already invested in eight simulators for the training of gantry operators, forklift drivers and other equipment operators, which will be housed on-site.
This will be paired with an on-going hatch simulator project, already implemented at the coastal terminal facilities.
