Sena Line contractor hit with completion deadline

Initially scheduled for completion in 2013, the upgrade of the Sena rail line linking the Mozambican Port of Beira with coal mines in the Tete province is still slipping further behind schedule.

Although the Mozambican government had already cancelled a contract it had with India’s Rites and Ircon (Ricon) - when the consortium had failed to deliver the project despite many delays – and had asked the state-owned ports and railways company (CFM) to complete the upgrading, it is still dissatisfied about slow progress.

So minister of transport and communications, Carlos Mesquita, has now given a deadline to the contractor and the supervisor of the much-delayed refurbishment to explain the failure to comply, reported news agency APA.