Japan will impose Covid-19 tests on passengers coming from mainland China, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced today. Tokyo's measure will come into force from Friday. Visitors from China will thus be the only ones in Japan automatically required to take a covid-19 test, in addition to...
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"Passenger air transport will lose 6.9 billion dollars in 2022", -IATA
The passenger air transport industry will lose 6.9 billion dollars this year, before returning to limited profits in 2023, according to projections presented yesterday, Tuesday, by IATA. According to the document released on Tuesday and quoted by Lusa, IATA (International Air Transport Association) predicts that the air transport industry will...
Public transportation fare may suffer a new increase
According to the Mozambican Federation of Road Transport Associations (FEMATRO), the fare scale for passenger transport could be increased again. The issue is the uncertainty of whether the government will continue to pay subsidies to passengers, the Minister of Transport and Communications, Mateus Magala, said on Thursday. The minister said that the...
Government will acquire articulated buses for passenger transportation
The Maputo Metropolitan area will initially receive 20 articulated buses for passenger transport to solve the problem of pressure during critical traffic hours. The transports still to be acquired will be allocated to the main six routes with the highest incidence of congestion, according to the Minister of Transport and Communications, Mateus Magala. The...
TAP transported 500 thousand passengers in the third quarter between Brazil and Europe
Portuguese airline TAP announced today that it carried 500,000 passengers between Europe and Brazil in the third quarter, 223% more than in the same period last year, solidifying its status as the leading airline in the country. "Since the beginning of the year, TAP has maintained its status as the leading international airline operating in Brazil,...
Beira/Moatize train resumes operation
After two years of stoppage due to restrictions imposed by Covid 19, the circulation of passenger trains on the railway line between Beira, in Sofala province, and Moatize, in Tete, will resume this Tuesday. It is known that the paralysis of train circulation caused negative impacts on the development of trade between the two provinces....
LAM announces resumption of flights after cancellations due to breakdown
As a result of the repair of the two aircraft, the flight operation returned to normal yesterday, Monday (26-09), and passengers who were affected by the cancellation on Sunday were transported to their destinations, says a company statement sent to our newsroom. "The Maputo/Quelimane/Maputo flight carrying the passengers in question departed at 6:10 am of...
Emirates Airlines carries more than 10 million passengers this summer
Emirates Airlines, the world's largest international airline, carried more than 10 million passengers this summer on nearly 35,000 flights to 130 destinations. In a statement, the airline said that "having anticipated the strong return of travel demand, Emirates Airlines worked closely with its airport partners...
CFM introduces new passenger transportation routes in the south zone
The company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) is gradually introducing ten new passenger transport routes for trains connecting the Central Station to various destinations in the provinces of Maputo and Gaza. These are routes connecting the Central Station (in the capital's downtown) and Matola-Gare,...
TAP admits reducing ticket prices
TAP admits to lowering airfares again if passenger demand falls. The scenario is put forward by the president of the executive committee of TAP, Christine Ourmières-Widener, who says that since March the carrier has made "three waves of fare increases" on different routes. In an interview with Eco and quoted by...