A Mozambican-incorporated consortium has signed a $2.389-billion contract for the construction of a 500-kilometer single-track, standard-gauge railway for transporting coal from Mozambique's coal fields at Moatize to the new Indian Ocean port of Macuse, 1600 km north of the capital city Maputo.
Thai Mocambique Logistica SA, which in 2013 won the concession for the new Macuse port and railway, signed the construction contract in mid-June 2917 with the 50-50 Portuguese-Chinese consortium Mota Engil-CNCEC—formed by Portugal's construction firm Mota Engil and Chinese company China National Complete Engineering Corporation—which had been picked as the preferred EPC bidder for the project in March this year.