Objectives and Benefits

The Maputo Corridor has four key objectives:

1. To rehabilitate the core infrastructure along the corridor qith minimum impact on the fiscus (road, rail, port, dredging of port and border post)
2. To maximise investment in both the inherent potential of the corridor area, and opportunities which infrastructure rehabilitation will create
3. To ensure sustainability by developing policy, strategies and framework that encompass a holistic, participatory and integrated approach to development
4. To ensure that the development impact of this investment is maximised, particularly to disadvantaged communities by changing the ownership base

Benefits of the Maputo Corridor Development Initiative:

• The stimulation of trade via competent infrastructure
• The opening up of SA markets to Mozambican producers and access to global markets through the development of the Maputo Port
• Employment creation through increased economic activity in Maputo and along the corridor, with the ability to shift the higher value-added industry sectors
• Increased access to international tourism
• Improved income generation through the encouragement of private investment
• Saving of public sector financial resources through the use of private sector investment in infrastructure development