Speech by LLZ©2022 Guest Minister Her Excellency Dra. Manuela Joaquim Rebelo. Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Mozambique.

SPEECH BY LLZ©2022 GUEST MINISTER HER EXCELLENCY DRA. MANUELA JOAQUIM REBELO DEPUTY MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS MOZAMBIQUE.

Minister of Transport and Logistics of Zambia, Excellency; Permanent Secretary of Transport and Logistics; Distinguished Representatives of the Private Sector of African Countries and worldwide; Distinguished Delegates and Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen; All Protocol Observed.

It is with great honor and profound privilege that I stand before you to present some points of discussion on this Land Linked Zambia, a Transport and Logistics Event, on my behalf and on behalf of the Government of Mozambique. We want to thank you for the invitation to participate in this event, and the hospitality given to me and my delegation and I since when we arrived in this beautiful country, In this spirit, I would like to express my gratitude to the Ministry of Transport and Logistics of Zambia for the convenience of organizing this event. Allow the Business Community to raise awareness on the corridors in Africa. specifically, the ones who have competitive transport to Zambia so that they become a really Land-Linked Country. Ladies and Gentlemen; Recent developments at the world, continental, regional and national levels, dictated by technological innovations and new forms of production organization, where production and service industries have concentrated on their core business, have forced the production of goods and services to overflow national borders, which subverted the traditional concepts of territoriality. Today, it is common for an industry based in one country to receive components from another country for the assembly of the finished product. This makes transport and logistics to play a fundamental role, consequently, forcing the construction of new infrastructures and the modernization of existing ones. Aware of global dynamics, Africa will not be able to achieve its goals of industrialization and consequent economic development without adequate infrastructure and efficient corridors. The lack of connections between different African infrastructures and inadequate access to energy is the biggest challenge of the continent’s economic growth. So to reverse this reality, it is urgent to find other ways of financing infrastructure projects, by strengthening public-private partnership agreements, and involving the but private sector- not only for funding and implementation, but as a partner in projects, policy formulation and enforcement. In Mozambique, in order to promote the involvement of the private sector, we created the Spatial Development Program which is based on GIS information it maps the potential of a certain area and identifies an anchor project that can enable the construction of adequate infrastructure, for the transportation of not only the anchor cargo that made the project viable, but also, other cargo and passengers. The rail link between Mozambique and Malawi has already been built and modernized through Direct Foreign Investment On Beira Corridor .We are also investing on the rail and Port with a view to finally improve efficiency and competitiveness in the transport and handling of national and regional cargo . I would like to invite the Private Sector present in this room and other potential financiers to invest in those corridors in the region, and in Mozambique. Particularly, now- as opportunities do not last forever. Thank you for your attention.

Her Excellency Dra. Manuela Joaquim Rebelo