The development will support the country’s only oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Ndola, where the country’s inefficient oil refinery has been closed and would now be taking finished products.
Lusaka, April 19 [Zambian Mining] – President Hakainde Hichilema has announced the country’s intentions to build a pipeline to transport oil products from the port of Beira, in Mozambique.
Supporting the vision, Mozambican Transport Minister, Mateus Magala, said a boom in mineral resources in Zambia means that Mozambique should plan to increase the volume of cargo that it exports through Beira.
Currently imports of petroleum from Mozambique are done by road. The development on the cards will support the country’s only oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Ndola, where the country’s inefficient oil refinery has been closed and would now be taking refined diesel from Dar Es Salaam.
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But the Government has made other political pronouncements on oil pipelines, one from Lobito in Angola and the other from Walvis Bay in Namibia, though neither appear to have gotten off the drawing board.
Meanwhile Mozambique has a plan to build a fuel depot at Vanduzi, along the existing pipeline to Zimbabwe.
The depot would allow tankers to pick up fuel at Vanduzi, near the crossroads where the east-west road from Beira to Zimbabwe meets the road going north to Tete and then to Malawi and Zambia.
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