The President of the Labor Department of the Confederations of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), Paulino Cossa, guarantees that there is already consensus on the readjustment of the minimum wage in the country, although he doesn't say what the percentages will be. "There are agreements in all sectors. So that's a given, I can't talk about the percentages yet because we're still...
The President of the CTA, Agostinho Vuma, encouraged the government to continue implementing measures aimed at consolidating the revaluation of exports, both in terms of the Decree on reference prices and/or transfer prices, but also in terms of integrating the informal economy. Speaking at the tenth edition of the Business Environment Monitoring Council (CMAN), which...
The Mozambican government, through the National Directorate of State Assets, launched a new Platform for the Registration of Suppliers of Goods and Services to the State in Maputo on Thursday (25). This initiative aims to combat influence peddling, clientelism, undue intervention by business agents and other illegal practices in the country. In...
The public company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) is complaining about the high costs of public lighting throughout the country, which amount to 20 million dollars a year, a supply that has no purchase subsidy. Lighting covers cities, large urban centers, towns and neighbourhoods in all municipal territories and beyond, with...
The Mozambican rail-port system transported around 26.6 million net tons in 2023 throughout the country, an increase of around 8% when compared to the previous period. On the lines operated by the public company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), cargo transportation also grew, reaching around...
The prepaid energy sales system, also known as "Credelec", of the public company Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM) will be inoperable next Monday (29), starting at 9pm, the state-owned electricity company announced in a statement. The unavailability of the system, which will last until 10am the following day, April 30, is intended, according to EDM, to allow...
The Instituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações (ISUTC) has announced the launch of ISUTC Online, an initiative that aims to democratize access to quality education by offering degrees in Engineering and Management through distance learning. In a statement released on Monday (22), the educational institution, created by Transcom, SA, in 1999, explains that...
Reliability tests will begin next month on the equipment installed in the three substations under construction in the country as part of the electricity transmission line project between Temane and Maputo. According to a report in the newspaper Notícias, the infrastructure comprises a total of four substations, three of which are completely new and one in Maputo...
The Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) collected almost 8.1 billion meticais last year as a result of the implementation of the program to seal alcoholic beverages and manufactured tobacco. According to the deputy director-general of Customs, Fernando Alage, who was speaking yesterday, Wednesday (24), during the launch of the Border Control and Monitoring Project through...
Semi-collective passenger transporters operating on the Cinema 700 route in the city of Matola stopped their activities today, Wednesday (24), in protest at the precarious conditions of the roads, particularly Avenida 5 de Fevereiro. The protesters claim that the degradation and lack of proper maintenance of the access roads has caused significant damage...