Transport in Mozambique

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Transport and Logistics in Mozambique (Master in Business in Africa)

Transport in Mozambique (East Africa)

Maritime Transportation Course: Port of Maputo (Mozambique)

Ports of Beira, Nacala and Maputo

The Port of Beira is the second Mozambican port:

Foreign Trade and Business in Mozambique (Beira), East Africa

The Port of Beira is located in the Mozambique Channel

Main export products of the Port of Beira: sugar, tobacco, corn, cotton, fiber, chrome, iron ore, copper and lead, coal
Container terminal
Access to the landlocked countries of the region: Zimbabwe, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia
1. Distance Port of Beira - Blantyre (Malawi): 812 kilometres
2. Distance from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (by Lubumbashi) to Beira: 1,600 kilometres, via Zambia
3. Beira - Machipanda (Zimbabwe) Railway: 318 kilometres
4. Harare (Zimbabwe): 559 kilometres
5. Bulawayo (Zimbabwe): 726 kilometres
6. Lusaka (Zambia): 1,054 kilometres
7. Kitwe (Zambia): 1,370 kilometres
Distance from Beira to:
1. Quelimane: 1,216 kilometres
2. Nampula: 959 kilometres
Beira corridor connects Zimbabwe by road and rail and facilitates access to the landlocked countries
1. Access to Lusaka (Zambia)
2. Pipeline: Port of Beira-Zimbabwe
Beira-Malawi corridor

The Port of Maputo is the second largest Mozambican port

Ports of Mozambique, Maputo, Nacala, Beira (Maritime Transport Course) access to South Africa, Eswatini (Swaziland)

The Port of Maputo is the only natural port of Southern Africa together with the Port of Saldanha Bay (South Africa) and the Port of Walvis Bay (Namibia)

Mozambican Port and Rail Society
Specific terminals: bulk liquids, granite, hard metals
A new vehicle terminal is planned
Link by Rail and by the inland road network with South Africa, Eswatini (Swaziland), and Zimbabwe.
1. Gauteng (South Africa): the largest gold producer region in the world
2. Pretoria (Capital of South Africa), Witwatersrand (Ekurhuleni), Johannesburg Mogale City and Phalaborwa
3. Mpumalanga: 76% of the South African coal mines
4. In Limpopo (mining production), access to Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Maputo Development Corridor
Maputo International Airport (the largest in Mozambique)

Port of Quelimane

Important fishing industry
Access to Blantyre (Malawi), to 416 kilometres
Distances from Quelimane to:
1. Maputo: 2,065 kilometres
2. Beira: 1,216 kilometres
3. Nampula: 545 kilometres

Port of Nacala:

The Port of Nacala is one of the largest natural deep water ports
1. Access to Malawi by the Nacala Railway (931 kilometres)
The Port of Nacala is the closest port of Malawi
Nacala corridor project
Access to Zambia (inland port of Chipata)

Nampula is the logistics centre of Northern Mozambique

Nacala-Malawi corridor is the main railway and road axis
Access to the main port of the region
130 kilometres from the Mozambique Channel
Distances from Nampula to:
1. Maputo: 1,385 kilometres
2. Beira: 959 kilometres
3. Quelimane: 545 kilometres
Nampula International Airport.

Beira-Lobito Corridor

Beira-Lobito corridor (Angola)

3,523 kilometres, Trans-African Highway 9
Access to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Beira, Nhandue, Dongo, Nhamatan, Nhamatanda, Inchope, Maforga, Chimoio, Chipata, Bandula, Vila of Manica, Machipanda

North-South Corridor

North-South Corridor: Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (Road Transportation Course)