In the current economic climate, Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) and Kudumba Investments Lda have together initiated activities aimed at reducing the costs of using the Maputo Transport Corridor thus increasing its regional competitiveness and helping to reduce costs to local consumers.
This partnership includes the reduction of tariffs applied to various types of cargo (e.g. rice, fish, cement, rock phosphate, project cargo, etc.) and / or maintenance of some previously reduced rates on a trial basis, as is the case with chromium and nickel.
“Kudumba reiterates its conviction that the Maputo Corridor may only represent an asset if we develop joint efforts to improve the general services to users, in particular, with regard to prompt clearance in the Maputo Corridor,” said Stephanie (Roula) Baaklini, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kudumba.
“Our goal is to reduce the final cost of the Maputo corridor to the end-user, and therefore we must work with all operators and stakeholders of this corridor.
Kudumba has been a key partner and has worked together with MPDC to enhance the competitiveness of the corridor. We hope that more operators will join us in the near future to develop the corridor of Maputo and the region,” said Osório Lucas, Executive Director of MPDC.