Mozambique’s Prime Minister, Benvinda Levi, has challenged the Mozambican Dredging Company (EMODRAGA) to ensure that access channels to ports, turning basins and berthing areas remain navigable, as well as to undertake construction dredging and hydraulic works, in order to support the development of logistics corridors serving the hinterland.
Levi issued the challenge today during the swearing-in ceremony of EMODRAGA’s new Chairman of the Board of Directors, Paulo Tarmamade, and the Deputy Director-General of the Office for Assistance to Former State Leaders (GADE), Delfim Gatoma.
The new manager was also urged to work towards restoring and modernising the company’s operational capacity and incorporating new technologies into its equipment, in order to strengthen its ability to respond to the needs of access channels and manoeuvring areas at national ports.
Levi called for rigorous and prudent resource management, control over budget execution and diversification of revenue sources, with a focus on the company’s public service mission. She also called for the establishment of a preventive dredging maintenance plan based on clearly defined priorities.
For his part, Tarmamade undertook to raise the proposed targets so that the company could continue to fulfil its role in ensuring that the country’s port access channels remain operational, with particular attention to the Port of Beira, given its characteristics and location.
Source: Notícias
