Mozambique Storage Assessment
Storage requirements can be divided in central warehousing, provincial or centrally located intermediate warehousing and smaller storage facilities close to the final delivery points.In principal, economies of scale and road conditions influence the transport costs and dispatches from central warehouses are completed using long-haul vehicles to destinations where road conditions and cargo volumes allow.
4.6 Mozambique Storage and Milling Company Contact List
Commercial Storage
Location |
Owner |
Available for Rent |
Capacity mt / m² / m³ |
Type [1] |
Access [2] |
Condition [3] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maputo |
Sociedade de Terminales de Moçambique |
Yes |
12,000 mt |
n/a | n/a | n/a |
Beira |
Cornelder de Moçambique |
Yes |
12,000 mt |
n/a | n/a | n/a |
Beira |
Manica Freight Services |
Yes |
24,000 mt |
n/a | n/a | n/a |
Nacala |
Manica Freight Services |
n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Nacala |
Mocargo Lda |
n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
[1] Warehouse Type: Open storage, container, rub-hall, silo, concrete, other, unspecified
[2] Warehouse Access: Raised-siding, flat
[3] Warehouse condition: Appears intact, appears damaged, under construction/repair
For further information on commercial storage, please select the following document:
Storage Used by Humanitarian Organizations
Maputo is the location where most organisations maintain central warehouses due to its capital city status and presence of suppliers, transporters and main logistics infrastructure including sea-port, international airport and the cargo terminals for customs clearance of items originating from South Africa. The Logistics Cluster participants warehouses are generally small structures, scattered around the two provinces and they are often in locations that are not well connected to major roads. This leaves little opportunity for logistics augmentation purposes unless an emergency occurs in a very specific area. Consequently, only a few of the paticipants warehouses could be used as intermediate warehouses in emergencies (e.g. Save the Children has an 800 mt facility in Xai-Xai)
In Gaza and Inhambane there are MSU’s with a storage capacity for food of 3,600 mt. Each MSU has a floor area of 320 m² with a potential capacity of about 1,300 m³. They can be transferred relatively easily from one location to another to meet changing operational requirements. There is currently one MSU in Maputo, 3 in the Gaza Province and 5 in Inhambane Province, whichcan be positioned at response areas, as required. In addition, MSU’s could be moved from the Central Region to the Sou. WFP has 7 MSU’s in stock in Moçambique… 1 are in Maputo and 6 are in Beira
For further information on storage used by humanitarian organisations, please select the folllowing document: