The Compass Logistics International Group (CLI) has opened an office in Mozambique, extending its footprint in southern Africa. The company, headquartered in Germany, has over the past five years become an important player in the sub-Saharan Africa project cargo scene. Offering bespoke transport and logistics services, it now has offices in South Africa and Mozambique, allowing it to improve its service to the oil and gas industry in particular.According to a spokesman, the new office is based in Maputo and is a joint venture with a local partner. It will service gas projects in the north of the country as well as the developing mining sector across the whole of Mozambique. The focus has been placed on project and resupply logistics.With its own f leet of trucks as well as a large warehouse and laydown area in Johannesburg, equipped with a broad array of handling equipment, CLI SA is well placed to cater for all the inbound logistics needs of its customers based in Mozambique. CLI has a strong track record in the movement of large machines, from stacker-reclaimers and a shiploader for the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, to dump trucks, excavators and dozers to mines in West Africa, or mill shells to new copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
