The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC has just )inaugurated the Pessene Traffic Management Park.
The park aims to respond to the challenges of traffic congestion on the N4 road, as part of the initiative by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Maputo Provincial Government to bring greater sustainability, development and road safety to the Maputo Corridor, launched in April by the Minister of Transport and Communications, Dr. Mateus Magala.
With a duration of 4 months of construction phase, the investment in the park had a total cost of 4 million 350 thousand US dollars and has a static capacity for the temporary parking of 250 trucks. As well as parking, the park offers a space for quick meals, toilets, a port safety induction service and port documentation processing services. With the aim of improving efficiency in the corridor and time spent at the port, the park has integration with all of the port’s digital systems, so that trucks can be dispatched as their files are processed.
During the construction phase, the park employed 140 people from the Pessene area. In this first phase, the park will create 32 permanent jobs, allocated almost exclusively to inhabitants of the local communities.
With the inauguration of the Pessene traffic management park, MPDC also did a soft-launch of the road safety campaign planned for December. The campaign started with a musical challenge launched in October, in partnership with Miramar television and X-Hub (a creative incubator), which invited national artists to make original songs on the theme of road safety. The winning song – and the sound of the campaign – was heard for the first time in public during the park’s inauguration.
