Southern Africa
Cargo to and from Mozambique
Three ports, three hinterlands, and a routing decision behind each one.
Mozambique's coastline gives Southern Africa three separate doors, and each opens onto a different hinterland. Maputo faces South Africa and Eswatini. Beira serves Zimbabwe, Zambia and southern Malawi. Nacala, the deepest natural harbour on the coast, runs a rail corridor into Malawi and on toward Zambia.
That means picking a Mozambican port is a decision about where the cargo is ultimately going, not about which berth the vessel can reach soonest. Get it wrong and a container lands eight hundred kilometres from the corridor it needed. Britex handles both the Mozambican leg and the transit legs beyond it, so that call gets made once, at booking, by people who will also be moving the truck.
At a glance
- Three
- principal ports
- Maputo
- South Africa and Eswatini
- Beira
- Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi
- Nacala
- Malawi and Zambia by rail
How cargo reaches Mozambique
Principal routing
- Maputo, Beira or Nacala
- Documentation and release
- Local delivery or corridor transit
Onward on the Beira Corridor
- Beira
- Machipanda or Zobue border
- Zimbabwe, Zambia or Malawi
We don’t publish transit times against a route. Distance and corridor are geography; what a specific container takes depends on the border, the season and the vessel. Ask us and we’ll commit to a timing against your actual shipment.
Destinations we deliver to
Border posts on these routes
What moves on this lane
The commodities that dominate Mozambique’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.
Inbound to Mozambique
- Consumer goods and retail stock
- Construction materials
- Mining, gas and project cargo
- Fuel and petroleum products
Outbound from Mozambique
- Aluminium
- Coal and minerals
- Cashew and agricultural produce
- Gas project equipment
What we handle for Mozambique
Britex has presence and yards across the thirteen countries we cover. The same six services apply on this lane as on every other.
Also in Southern Africa
Moving cargo to Mozambique?
Tell us the destination and what’s in the box, and we’ll come back with the routing and what it takes to get there.