The Port of Matola expects to handle 3,718,548 tons of miscellaneous cargo by the end of this year, representing an increase of 75,548 tons (2%) compared to last year when it handled 3,643,000 tons.

Last year, the bulk liquids terminal, responsible for receiving fuels and crude oils, handled 1,572,580 metric tons, with an expected increase to 1,569,443 metric tons.

The terminal has the capacity to handle up to three million metric tons and is being operated at around half its capacity.

The aluminum terminal handled 1,864,447 tons last year, and this year it is expected to handle around two million tons, its total capacity.

The coal terminal has a capacity to handle up to six million tons, but forecasts indicate an increase in cargo movement to nine million. This is due to the increase in cargo arriving by road from South Africa to Europe.

The company's Matola Silos and Bulk Terminal (STEMA) terminal handled 205,942 tons last year, and this year expects a drop to less than 150,000 tons.

STEMA's performance last year was due to the cargo of wheat from South Africa, which was exported through the Port of Matola in an emergency, and not necessarily because it won a customer, explained the Director of the Port of Matola, Arlindo Fondo, quoted by the newspaper. Sunday.

The poor performance that has marked the activities of STEMA's terminal, which can handle half a ton of cargo, has to do with the crisis in Zimbabwe, one of the terminal's main clients.