Mozambique’s Moatize Coal Basin Speaker: David Hunter - Project Director, Mott MacDonald Mining On Top: Africa - London Summit 24-26 June 2014 | London

1. Getting to the Market: A Transport Infrastructure View
Mozambique’s Moatize Coal Basin
24 June 2014

2.  Project location – Tete province in
Mozambique
– Prospective final market destinations
 India
 China
 Europe
 Challenge: market access at a competitive
price with service reliability
 Historic starting position
– Road link to rail terminal at Moatize
 Congested and weight restricted road bridge
– Rail line to the port of Beira
 6Mtpa capacity limit – rehabilitation required
– Beira port infrastructure
 Redundant coal terminal
 Tidal port
 Restrictive marine channel
Background
Moatize Coal Basin
0
10
20
30
40
50
2010 2013 2016
Client
Other Mining
Concessions
Total
CHINDE

3. Facilitating Decision Making
Key Performance Expectations
 Stakeholders – public and private
– Client
– Rail and port organization – CFM
– Local, regional and national government
– Community and environment
 Clarification of the stakeholder needs
 Risks
– Level of dependency
– Consequence
– Communication

4. Transport
Infrastructure
Operations
Hinterland
Transport
Port
Global
Market
Systems View
Connecting stranded assets to markets
Land-side
infrastructure
Marine-side
infrastructure
Integrated
port
operations
Mine
infrastructure
Processes &
operations
Shipping
Coastal
Deepsea
Parcel size Flow Speed Connectivity

5. Alternative modes and logistics strategies
Barging
Road
Mine
Nacala
Conveyor
Multi-modal
Rail
Beira*
Maputo
Capesize
Panamax
Handymax
* – Option for offshore transhipment
Chinde

6. System Integration
Alternative modes and logistics strategies
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
2010 2013 2016
Client
Other Mining
Concessions
Total
Production Ramp-up
Unit
Capacity
3Mtpa 16Mtpa 40Mtpa
Existing road
(Vehicles per day)
40t 250 1334 3334
Prospective road
(vehicles per day)
100t 100 534 1334
Existing rail
(Vehicles per day)
2,700t 4 20 50
Prospective rail
(Vehicles per day)
25,000t 0.5 2 6
60,000t 50 267 667
80,000t 37.5 200 500
200,000t 15 80 200
* – Annual number of ships
*
*
*

7. OR
 Beira solution
– Existing Sena line refurbished
– Existing Beira port coal terminal – refurbished
– Existing Beira port – offshore transhipment
– Prospective Beira port – new coal terminal
– New Savane offshore terminal
 Nacala solution
– New and refurbished cape gauge via Malawi
– New standard gauge in country
– New deep water coal terminal
 Other options
– Barging down the Zambezi to Chinde –
offshore transhipment
– New and refurbished rail line to Macuse –
new port development
Tailored solutions to meet supply chain
needs

8. www.mottmac.com
Themba Muchaneta – Africa Advisory Division
Infrastructure Planning
E: Themba.Muchaneta@mottmac.com
T: +27 (0) 11 566 8300
M: +27 (0) 79 246 6680
David Hunter – Africa Advisory Division
Infrastructure Planning
E: David.Hunter@mottmac.com
T: +27 (0) 11 566 8479
M: +27 (0) 76 028 1356