At the end of November, the Cart Group signed service agreements with the Commercial Port of Lobito and the Benguela Railway (CFB), which provides for the construction of a 750-metre branch, which is scheduled for completion in April, to facilitate the transport of imported raw materials, as well as products from the Cart Industrial Complex
The Group’s forecast, according to the Administrator for the Financial Area, Samuel Candundo, is to move around two million tons of various goods per year, when the manufacturing units of the Industrial Complex are fully operational, which requires the anticipation of some operational measures in this area.
According to Samuel Candundo, the implementation of this strategy also foresees the acquisition of 100 wagons to swell the batch of equipment that will be used in the transport of goods from the Port to and from the Port, but also agro-industrial production or the Cart Group along the Lobito Corridor, which brings together the provinces of Benguela, Huambo, Bié, Moxico, with connection to the DRC, on the border of Luau, and the interland connecting with Zambia.
For the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Port of Lobito, Agostinho Estevão Felizardo, this is an opportunity that allows to re-establish regularity in the movement of cargo which, consequently, will contribute to improving revenue collection and the sustainability of the company.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of CFB, Luís Teixeira, also expressed his satisfaction, taking into account that this intervention by the Cart Group will increase the options in the movement of cargo, since it is intended to reach Luau, the limit of the extension of the railway line, on the side of national intervention.