12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">Cornelder de Moçambique (CdM) – the Mozambican port authority - has expanded capacity at the port of Beira to improve the turnaround time for grain destined for Zimbabwe.
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">According to the state-owned Zimbabwean newspaper, The Herald, private grain processing companies expect to import more than 250 000 tonnes of maize over the next three months.
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">The Herald quoted a CdM official as saying: "Because of the food relief in excess of one million tonnes of maize required for Zimbabwe we are confident that we will be able to handle most of this cargo through our ports.”
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">The port has received bagging machines, materials handlers and maize debunking trailers. The official also noted that a new bulk maize facility had been created in “record time” that could handle around 5 000 tonnes of maize per day and store over 20 000 tonnes.
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"> font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Meanwhile, the Grain Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) said on its website that more than 100 000 metric tonnes had already been imported under its private sector maize importation programme.
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.2pt;vertical-align:baseline">"Another 250 000 metric tonnes is expected within the next 90 days, with part of it already in transit." GMAZ chairman Tafadzwa Musarara said.
