South Africa's largest trade association for the freight transport sector, the Road Freight Association, is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to try to mediate a peaceful solution to the post-election situation in Mozambique. The association says that the post-election violence is having a negative impact on the Mozambican and South African economies and the southern region...
Semi-collective passenger transporters on the Albazine-Marracuene route halted their activities on Thursday (18) to demand an improvement in the quality of the road on that route. According to a report in the newspaper Domingo, the protest was focused on the poor state of Avenida Dom Alexandre, which the carriers claim is full of sand washed away by the recent rains...
The Transport Association of Tete (ATROTE) says that hauliers are suffering losses due to traffic restrictions on the Samora Machel bridge. The President of ATROTE warns of possible problems if the situation prevails. "The hauliers are not collecting their revenue because at some point they get stuck or...
The Maputo Municipality, meeting in assembly, this week approved an increase in the fine for concrete transporters by another four thousand meticais, from the previous one thousand meticais to five thousand meticais. This is a fine to be paid for spilling concrete on public roads. The amount is multiplied by each linear meter of concrete...
The city of Cape Town in South Africa has been experiencing extreme violence since Thursday, with reports of gunfire, vehicles being set on fire and roads being blocked. The N2 highway was blocked by taxi drivers, vehicles were set on fire, stones were thrown and petrol bombs were thrown - this was the chaos that unfolded on Thursday afternoon,...
Operators of semi-collective passenger vehicles went to the Metropolitan Transport Agency (AMT) yesterday to demand the payment of compensation as part of the relief of operating costs. Transport operators affiliated to the Mozambican Federation of Road Transport Associations (FEMATRO) told the press that the issue was the delay in paying six months' compensation,...
The final police report on Monday's riots in the Angolan province of Huambo shows that five people died, eight were injured and 34 were arrested, following protests over the allocation of fuel subsidies. In a press release, the Huambo National Police regret the deaths, which "could not be avoided" due to the...
The Secretary General of Mozambique South Africa Transportes Associados (MOSATA), Francisco Manjate, says that Mozambican transport operators on the Maputo-Durban (South Africa) route could soon go bankrupt because they have not been working for several days. Due to the unrest in the neighboring country, Mozambican hauliers have incurred losses by not working...
International passenger carriers are angry with the government. They say that both the Mozambican and South African governments are doing nothing to put an end to the wave of car burnings. According to them, the solution is to escort the vehicles. The scene where the burning of vehicles takes place...
The Metropolitan Transport Agency (AMT) acknowledges the four months of compensation owed to the carriers, but explains that this was due to FEMATRO's delay in making the lists available. A few days ago, FEMATRO threatened to increase the transport fare, allegedly because they felt cheated by the government that, of the six months of compensation...