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  Port of Beira, Mozambique
The port of Beira in Moçambique is situated at the mouth of the Pungue River at Longitude 34º 50' E and Latitude 19º 51' S. Time Zone is GMT+2 hours.
Beira port has a total of 11 berths stretching over a total length of 1994 meters, excluding berth number 1, which is reserved as a fishing harbor.
The port of Beira's facilities include a container terminal and a general cargo terminal, both of which are concessioned to Cornelder de Moçambique.
www.ports.co.za /beira.php   (1239 words)

  
  Beira - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Beira (Portugal), former province in north central Portugal, covering the area from Spain to the Atlantic Ocean.
Beira (Mozambique), city and seaport, eastern Mozambique, capital of Sofala Province, on Mozambique Channel (an arm of the Indian Ocean), at the...
- port and capital of Sofala Province, eastern Mozambique, on the Mozambique Channel.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Beira.html   (88 words)

  
  BEIRA - LoveToKnow Article on BEIRA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In October 1905 a considerable reduction was made in railway rates and in port Sues and customs, with the object of re-attracting to the port the transit trade of the interior, and in 1907 a branch of the Rhodesian customs was opened in the town.
BEIRA, an ancient principality and province of northern and central Portugal; bounded on the N. by Entre Minho e Douro and by Traz os Montes, E. by the Spanish provinces of Leon and Estremadura, S. by Alemtejo and Portuguese Estremadura, and W. by the Atlantic Ocean.
Beira has a warm and equable climate, except in the mountains, where the snowfall is often heavy.
8.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BEIRA.htm   (913 words)

  
 Portuguese East Africa - LoveToKnow 1911
At the mouth of the Pungwe is the port of Beira.
On the line of railway from Beira to Rhodesia the most important town is Massi Kessi (Portuguese Magequece) in the centre of the Manica goldfields.
Lourenco Marques, Beira, Mozambique and other ports are in telegraphic communication with Europe via South Africa and Zanzibar, and a cable connects Mozambique with Madagascar.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Portuguese_East_Africa   (6337 words)

  
 Beira - Port Information - From TallShips Agency
The Port of Beira is situated on the Pungoe river estuary.
Beira has always been essentially a transit port, handling the import and export cargoes from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and other countries in the region.
The entrance of the port is 20 nautical miles from the open water along the dredged 60,0 m wide Macuti channel which has buoys and lighting, with a minimum depth below chart datum of 3,3 m.
www.tallships.co.za /beira.htm   (345 words)

  
 Management of Fishing Ports to Go Private / News / Home - Niassa Web Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Beira fishing port has obsolete equipment, and the situation was worsened by damage caused by cyclones in 2001.
The rehabilitation of the Beira port is budgeted at 21 million US dollars, and a tender has been launched to select a company to do the work.
Muthemba said that the government is also seeking funds to modernise the Maputo fishing port, as part of its efforts to respond to the demands of the international market, particularly the European Union, in terms of quality of fisheries produce.
www.niassa.net /news/management_of_fishing_ports_to_go_private   (367 words)

  
 Beira - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Beira has handled the foreign trade of Congo (Kinshasa), Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi as well as of Mozambique, but rail service was interrupted by bombings during the war for Zimbabwean independence in the late 1970s and was ultimately halted as a result of the Mozambique civil war.
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www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BeiraMoz.html   (417 words)

  
 PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA - LoveToKnow Article on PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At the mouth of the Pungwe is the port of Beira.
It was probably the desire to penetrate to the land of gold by an easier route that led, in 1544, to the establishment of a station on the River of Good Tokens, a station from which grew the town of Quilimane.
The total decay of Sofala, the removal of the seat of government from Mozambique to Lourenco Marques, the rise of the last named port and of Beira (both largely dependent on the transit trade with British possessions), all served to mark the changed condition of affairs.
16.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PORTUGUESE_EAST_AFRICA.htm   (6060 words)

  
 Mozambique Transport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Strong growth in coastal traffic, particularly to the smaller northern ports of Quelimane, Nacala and Pemba, is an indication of increasing commercial activity in the northern provinces.
The port of Maputo serves South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, while the ports of Beira and Nacala handle cargo from Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and occasionally from Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The port is now able to handle some 7.5 million tonnes of cargo per year and vessels weighing up to 50,000 tonnes can enter it.
www.sadcreview.com /country_profiles/mozambique/moz_transport.htm   (754 words)

  
 mozambique travel, mozambique information guide
Pemba is a port town located on the south side of the world's third-largest natural bay.
The Port of Beira is situated on the Pungoe River estuary in the city of Beira, it is the second largest port in Mozambique.
A large and bustling port with old buildings, street cafes and beaches, this old African city is a photographers paradise.
www.uyaphi.com /mozambique   (584 words)

  
 Cutter Suction Dredge, dredge equipment, dredges, the word for dredge is Ellicott
Equipment for use in port deepening projects in South Vietnam and a flood control project in the new African nation of Zambia was shipped through the port during the past month by a Baltimore dredge manufacturing firm.
A number of ports along the 800 mile Vietnamese coastline are slated for deepening to handle ocean-going ships, coasters and lighters.
Because Zambia is a land-locked nation, the dredge was slated for discharge at the port of Beira, Mozambique.
www.dredge.com /casestudies/viet-zambia.htm   (495 words)

  
 Welcome to "The Mirror Online"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While they concur that the Beira Development Corridor has potential to expand trade between the two countries, they also firmly believe that Zimbabwe should strive to address the current political and macro-economic crisis if the understanding is to be economically viable.
Despite the dilapidated state of the corridor, the port of Beira plays a dominant role in the export of goods from the region.
The Beira Corridor programme is in line with the SADC protocol on transport, communication and meteorology which calls for concerted economic growth in areas of high growth potential.
www.africaonline.co.zw /mirror/stage/archive/010914/business11797.html   (829 words)

  
 Port of Beira, Mozambique
On 15 October 1998 a joint venture was formed between Cornelder Holding, based in Rotterdam (67%) and CFM (33%) for the management of the Beira Ports (Container and General Cargo Terminals) by Cornelder de Moçambique (CdM).
The port is tidal with a MH spring range of 6.2 - 7.4m.
From the north end of Channel Rambler, the entrance channel is marked by light buoys west of Cbadelo light (metal mast, 4m in height), exhibits 9 cables north northwest of Ponta Gea on the edge of a bank fronting the shore between Ponta Gea and Ponta Chiveve.
ports.co.za /beira.php   (1239 words)

  
 AVI - Samrec Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Port of Beira is situated on the Pungoe river estuary.
Beira has always been essentially a transit port, handling the import and export cargoes from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and other countries in the region.
The port can now handle up to 100 000 TEUs per annum, using two ship-to-shore gantry cranes with 40 ton container handling capacity and 50 ton hook lifting capacity.
www.vermiculite.com.au /sbeira.html   (192 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portugal
For purposes of administration it is officially divided into districts, but the old division into provinces (which originated in the differences of soil, climate, and character of the population) has not lost its meaning and is still employed in common parlance.
The chief wines are port, which comes from the Douro region, and the wines of Beira and the Peninsula of Lisbon (Collares and Carcavellos), but the largest vineyard is found just south of the Tagus and is a recent creation.
The opening of the ports of Brazil to foreign ships ruined Portuguese commerce, the separation of the colony diminished the prestige of the mother country, which was reduced to a miserable plight by the long war, and internal feuds were added to external troubles.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12297a.htm   (9955 words)

  
 Beira - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Port Vale forward Stephen McPhee is set to complete a move to Portuguese side SC Beira Mar next Tuesday.
After he was transferred to Beira, in mid-1997, it was discovered that he had completely disorganised the BCM case file, and key documents provided by the bank...
Port Vale's out-of-contract striker Steve McPhee says he is not going to be rushed into a move to Portuguese Premier Division side Beira Mar....
news.daylightonline.com /Beira.html   (3392 words)

  
 The Heat Is Online
BEIRA, Mozambique (Reuters) — Mozambican authorities said on Sunday they had begun evacuating up to 80,000 people threatened by fresh floods as more water is released from the Cahora Bassa reservoir.
He said the main road from the port of Beira to the town of Caia near the Zambezi River was cut off due to flooding.
Large swathes of the Zambezi River valley are under water after several other rivers burst their banks, sweeping away huts and crops and flooding a railway line crucial for transporting sugar to the port of Beira.
www.heatisonline.org /contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3644&method=full   (869 words)

  
 Mozambique News Agency - AIM Reports
Mozambique's publicly-owned port and rail company, CFM, has so far rebuilt the first 40 kilometres of the Sena line, the railway that links the port of Beira to the Moatize coal mines in the western province of Tete, with a spur into Malawi.
Renamo deputy Rui de Sousa, speaking in the Assembly of the Republic on the second day of a question and answer session, alleged that the government was motivated by regionalism and deliberately switched investment away from the centre of the country to the south.
In Beira port, the quays dating from 1920 "were demolished, and new ones built to serve the 21st century", said Fernando.
www.poptel.org.uk /mozambique-news/newsletter/aim273.html   (3922 words)

  
 MacauHub
Beira, Mozambique, 07 Dec – Exports via the Mozambican port of Beira are expected to total 150,000 tons this year, or a 10 percent increase on last year, a director of the port’s management company said in Beira.
According to Mesquita the port has seen growth of 10 percent for the first time and also said that if Zimbabwe resolved some of its economic problems, the port could grow by a further 10 percent.
Mesquita added that the port would undergo refurbishment from 2007 and that a tender for the work would be launched in March.
www.macauhub.com.mo /en/news.php?ID=2498   (229 words)

  
 Portugal > Wines > Port
Among others, a pleasant tradition is that an unmarked Port is served at the end of the meal to tease and test the assembled members and guests as to its origin, blending and year.
All Ports with the exception of a "vintage" are matured in oak casks inside the Lodges prior to bottling.
Vintage Character Port - This title is misleading in that the Port is similar to that of a fine Ruby Port and not that of a Vintage.
portugal-info.net /wines/port.htm   (1074 words)

  
 Business Report - Port of Beira will achieve 10% increase in exports
The port, which the operator says is the most modern in southern Africa, is a vital gateway for northern Mozambique as well as neighbours Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania.
Intensive rehabilitation of the port was due to begin in April next year, Mesquita said, and the tender would be launched a month earlier.
Zimbabwe is traditionally the largest user of Beira port, accounting for 65 percent of cargo, but it is gripped by an eight-year economic crisis.
www.busrep.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=3577975   (712 words)

  
 Beira, Mozambique - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The project is being conducted in the town of Beira, Mozambique, a community with particularly high levels of cholera, by the UN World Health Organization (WHO...
The final proposals from three consortia, bidding for a lease on the Beira Railway system, were opened over the weekend, and the winner is to be known this...
Beira Mar climbed to second place in the table with a 1-0 win over Academica in Coimbra.
www.4newz.net /world/am/Beira.html   (4285 words)

  
 Current Projects-CPMZ, Beira to Feruka Pipeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Beira to Feruka Pipeline - located in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
CBandI John Brown responsibility included the interpretation of "intelligent" pigging reports, the preparation of a pipeline repair program and the supervision of pipeline repair and replacement.
This work was followed by the basic engineering of the two new proposed booster stations and modifications to Beira and Maforga pump stations and Feruka Terminal.
www.johnbrown.biz /CPMZ_Beira.htm   (183 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAAL NIEUWS OP TUGSPOTTERS
Focusing on harbour towage and icebreaking in the Estonian ports in the Gulf of Finland:
Beira’s changing sandbanks are notorious and the grounding effectively closed the port to all shipping for seven days and was only re-opened on Monday.
Beira, Jul 6 - General cargo Pongola (7970 gt, built 2000) is reported to have grounded in the Beira access channel at 1702, Jul 5, while proceeding for berth.
www.tugspotters.com /verslag/archief/int.juli.2004.htm   (7492 words)

  
 Access to Beira Port Not Obstructed / News - Niassa Web Portal
Mozambican Transport Minister Tomas Salomao said on Thursday that the access channel to the central Mozambican port of Beira is not obstructed to shipping as initially announced by the National Maritime Administration and Inspection Service (SAFMAR).
"Port technicians and pilots concluded that it is possible to maintain the port accessible for a single basic reason: the grounded ship is not obstructing the channel.
He recalled that Beira port is problematic in terms of access.
www.niassa.net /news/access_to_beira_port_not_obstructed   (310 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Beira
The central Mozambican port of Beira, for example, depends heavily on Zimbabwean trade - with the Zimbabwean economy in ruins, Beira also is severely affected.
For instance, when the torch entered the central city of Beira, it was greeted by the mayor, Daviz Simango - who was elected on the Renamo ticket in 2003, and is one of the most prominent figures in the Renamo-Electoral Union coalition.
The basic pre-condition for the Moatize coal project was ensuring transport to the port of Beira.
news.surfwax.com /worldcities/files/Beira_Mozambique.html   (2083 words)

  
 Malawi TRANSPORTATION
The railway line extends, in the south, from Nsanje to the port of Beira in Mozambique.
Until 1982, about 95% of Malawi's foreign trade passed through Mozambican ports, mainly by rail connections, but by 1987, because of insurgent activity in Mozambique, over 95% of Malawi's exports were moving through South Africa's port of Durban.
The use of this longer route, with only road transport through Malawi, was costing $50 million a year in extra transport expenses.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Malawi-TRANSPORTATION.html   (361 words)

  
 Marineafric - YOUR CYBER WINDOW TO AFRICAN MARITIME INFORMATION AND RESEARCH
The ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam ports are facing one of the worst container congestions witnessed in recent years.
The long awaited emergency dredging of Beira port and its access channel did not happen this year because none of the bidders met the terms of the tender, Mozambican Transport Minister Antonio Mungwambe told the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic on Thursday.
Dar es Salaam port is currently experiencing one of the worst congestions of fuel vessels in its history, with seven tankers waiting for a berth at Kurasini Oil Jetty.
www.marineafric.com /english/news/port-dev-news/port-developments.htm   (8765 words)

  
 Mozambique News Agency - AIM Reports
The secretary general of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo party, Armando Guebuza, told a rally on 24 July in the central city of Beira that "corruption and inertia are the major evils that hamper development in Mozambique".
The paper toured registration posts in Beira, and found that many of them were at a standstill for lack of materials, and were having to turn would-be voters away.
The Sena line runs from the port of Beira to the coal mines of Moatize in the western province of Tete, with a spur into Malawi.
www.poptel.org.uk /mozambique-news/newsletter/aim258.html   (4170 words)

  
 Country Profile Mozambique - EIU Online Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Strong growth in coastal traffic, particularly to the smaller ports of Quelimane, Nacala and Pemba, is an indication of increasing commercial activity in the northern provinces.
Beira alone attracted investment close to US$1bn and is now able to handle some 7.5m tonnes/year of cargo.
Earlier, in December 2000, the management of Maputo port was handed over to a consortium of European companies, which hold 51% of the equity in a joint venture with the government (with 33%) and the local group Gestores de Mocambique (16%).
store.eiu.com /index.asp?layout=show_sample&product_id=30000203&country_id=MZ   (17673 words)

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