Mozambique is a large country with more than 53 border posts, significant transport corridors linking landlocked countries – such as Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi – to major sea ports and to the regional hub of South Africa.
Mozambique’s geographical location as a natural entry and exit point for the flow of goods to its landlocked neighbours will continue to congest the country’s transport channels.
Mozambique’s massive reserves of coal and natural gas should provide a substantial boost to exports, foreign investment, economic growth – which was supported by an increase in coal production in 2012 – and government revenues.
Logistics Services in Mozambique
Rather than focusing on all of the details and complexity of transportation, at Serviços Moçambique, you’ll have it all handled! Through our ground knowledge and our experienced partners, you can focus on results and have our committed team to support you at a much more efficient and quicker pace.
Special Deliveries – Palma, Afungi
Every vertical industry presents unique supply chain challenges, but none is as complex as oil and gas. Transporting products requires special equipment, strict regulatory compliance, and extensive safety procedures. It often requires multiple modes, and involves everything from supplying materials for oil rigs to moving extremely heavy equipment and hazardous materials.
Often, oil and gas operations take place in remote regions of the world such as Palma, Afungi which run 24/7/365. If materials aren’t delivered on time, the consequences are considerable.
We at Serviços Moçambique, we’ve partnered with the relevant players in the Logistics Sector in Mozambique, to offer you a reliable solution with the safety standards required in this industry.
Transport Management
We begin each customer engagement by working to understand your needs and develop solutions to achieve your unique goals. Transportation management services go beyond basic blocking and tackling to offer innovative, customized solutions.
With the best practices and accredited partners we can provide the following solution at this stage:
- Benchmarking of current systems, support structure, processes, technology, and capacity strategy
- Professional carrier procurement services
- Carrier management
- Load tendering
- Track and trace
- Rate optimization
- Custom shipment portal
- Route/mode optimization
- Load consolidation
- Lead time analysis
- Network modeling
- Freight Pay and Audit
Freight Brokerage Services
We are committed to providing you with capacity when and where you need it, with the necessary expertise of our partners we handle hazardous materials and oversized freight. Whether you would like help with a special project, lanes awarded or an ad hoc request, Serviços Moçambique ensures your needs are met.
Our team of dedicated associates all share a commitment to taking care of customer needs, and thrive in a working environment of high energy, positive reinforcement, and collaboration.
We can cover:
- AIR FREIGHT
- TRUCKLOAD
- LESS-THAN-TRUCKLOAD (LTL)
- OVERSIZE FREIGHT
Outsourcing Services
This service covers every aspect of operating a private fleet devoted to your business. There are many reasons that a company may consider OS, but some of the universal benefits are being able to better understand and control costs and reducing risks. Guaranteed capacity is another reason that some companies are choosing OS. There has been tremendous volatility in both capacity and freight rates in recent years, and many analysts expect these fluctuations to continue. Having a OS gives you greater control over costs and customer service.
These solutions may include:
- Human resources management
- Claims and risk management
- Driver recruitment and training
- Route optimization
- On-line reporting and continuous improvement programs
- Real time visibility
- Potential revenue sharing on backhauls
- Complete regulatory compliance
- Commitment to environmental sustainability and innovation
In addition to recruiting and maintaining the power units and drivers for our Outsourcing Services, we also find common sense solutions to cut transportation costs and increase efficiency. Our Supply Chain Engineers are focused on efficiency and continually analyze your dedicated network and enable our fleets to proactively adapt and change to your business needs.
We ensure that your freight is picked up and delivered on time. We develop a custom solution to your company’s situation and dedicate specific power units and personnel that can scale up/down based on demand.
One of the smallest pieces of equipment you operate may be a big source of improved efficiency and cost savings –if measured and managed. Your Material Handling Equipment, including forklifts, is a necessary part of your warehouse operation and impacts overall efficiency.
Our comprehensive Material Handling Equipment fleet management services solutions help your business with:
- Maintaining, optimizing, and standardizing your total fleet through data-driven solutions
- Acquisition of all equipment types, along with power solutions, racking, and other ancillary items
- Forklifts, scissor lifts, sweepers, scrubbers, conveyors, and racking
- Dealer direct volume discounts
- Open book pricing policy
- On-site delivery and set up
- Lean practices and green initiatives
- Fleet improvements and cost reductions
This will allow this key benefits:
- Leverage the latest technology and innovations
- Standardize the lifecycle management process
- Help eliminate lease chargebacks and penalties
Logistics industry is central to the evolution of your business. It is also an industry with evolving legal and regulatory demands requiring advice and counsel. At Serviços Moçambique, through our partners and our experienced advisors we are able to take care of all the legal barriers.
Custom Clearance
Documentation procedures, multiple vendors to oversee, numerous trade regulations to track. In a competitive marketplace, you can’t afford to lose time and money slowed by compliance hurdles – especially when it comes to customs clearance. Through our partners in all ports of Mozambique, aside from others, our services may include:
- Documentation for custom clearance
- Carting / Receiving Goods
- Examination of Shipments
- Custom clearance of the import cargo at the port of entry.
- Port handling.
- Port handling and arranging bonded warehouse as and when required by the client
- Providing suggestions to the customer on documentation of purchase order, contract, invoice and packing list to make the document compatible with the Mozambican customs for appropriate classification in customs for easy clearance.
- Suggestion for effective packing for economic handling and safety.
Cross border services and documentation
Cross-border is the exchange of goods over a border. To achieve an efficient cross-border transportation, you need a logistics or freight company with proven experience, infrastructure to guarantee the transportation of goods in a trustworthy and uninterrupted fashion, and bilingual staff that works 24/7 and through our Partners with proven experience in Mozambique you are assured of a high quality service and all the legal documentation taken care of.
Good in transit insurances
Goods in transit insurance does what it says on the tin, protecting any goods your business delivers or transports from place to place. Goods in transit insurance are useful not only if your business delivers goods, but also if you need to move items from one job to another. Considering the political and military situation in the Center of Mozambique and the worsening situation in Cabo Delgado, it is mandatory to get covered. Reach us for further assistance!
From short-term warehousing storage options of only a few days to longer term warehousing and logistics management, we are ready to offer a solution tailored to fit your needs. Whether you need short or long term storage space, we can assist you throughout Mozambique with our customized warehouse storage and distribution solutions with our experienced partners. We can provide superior inventory and delivery services to help you streamline your supply chain and make it more efficient, so you can focus on delivering a quality product to your customers.
Our Storage Solution incorporates many features to help you achieve your goals, including:
- Inventory management and control; General inventory services
- Crating and packing
- Inbound and outbound order processing
- Pallet services
- Pick and pack services
- Dedicated or Shared usage of warehouse facilities
For any and all of your freight shipping and warehouse storage needs nationwide, including the harvest environment in Cabo Delgado districts such as Palma, look no further than Serviços Moçambique. Please, reach us for a quote!
The expertise you need to move forward
Doing Business in Mozambique
We are passionate about helping our clients achieve practical results with real impact!
Serviços Moçambique operates in line with international standards, policies and procedures. Our set of core values and a strong code of ethics guides our business decisions, creating a corporate culture that fosters teamwork, intellectual growth and leadership.
Our dedicated team of professionals and collaborators include key players from all sectors across Mozambique, business managers, entrepreneurs, project engineers, HR specialists, attorneys and research specialists with extensive experience in the local and regional market. We are deeply engrained in the culture, language, laws and local regulations of this unique market allowing us to tailor solutions to our clients’ needs.
We have been providing high-quality consulting and procurement services in Maputo to a diverse base of clients from sole traders to multinational enterprises across a variety of industries and sectors, mining, manufacturing, construction and finance among others. The wealth of experience we have gained from our clients also fortified our role as top notch business development advisors.
We operate in Maputo, Pemba, Beira, Tete, Nacala and Nampula, dedicating all of our resources to the long-term success and general well-being of our clients.