Chinese mining company Ding Sheng Minerals, which operates the Chibuto heavy sands mine in the southern province of Gaza, will begin exporting the resource in the first quarter of this year.

According to the administrator of Chongoene, Artur Macamo, the construction of the dock at that point is expected to be completed soon.

According to the source quoted by the newspaper Notícias, the construction of the Chongoene dock arose from the need to find a more flexible and profitable way of exporting the heavy sands from Chibuto, thus avoiding the high costs of transportation by road to the port of Maputo and then on to the foreign market.

"The works are progressing according to the schedule initially drawn up, which leads us to conclude that the export operations for the heavy sands could take place at the end of the first quarter of this year," he said.