Parcerias público-privado em Moçambique: o caso da modernização do equipamento na terminal de contentores do Porto de Maputo 2003-2014

Abstract

This end-of-course work has its title “Public-Private Partnerships in Mozambique, looking at the case of equipment modernization in the container terminal of Maputo Port between 2003 and 2014”. This research was done by presenting the planned investments and effective investments made by Maputo Port Development Company in the equipment of the container terminal at the Port of Maputo and describing the process of inspection of the company that manages the project. It was identified as a central problem that at all stages of investment in the equipment at the Port of Maputo Port Terminal there is a dissonance between what Maputo Port Development Company plans and what it invests in reality. As a possible explanation for this problem it was argued that this Public-Private Partnership takes the form of a Corporate Joint Venture, thus it creates a hybrid company and because this type of company has a public and a private part in it, this reduces the margin for inspection, that there is no way to hold them accountable, thus creating an environment that does not stimulate efficiency in fully complying with the objective of modernizing the equipment of the container terminal at Maputo Port. The research was used the qualitative and quantitative as well as monographic methods. Concerning to the techniques, were used the interpretative technique of Law and indirect documentation. Regarding the practical part of the research, the chosen technique was semi-structured interviews, where people from Empresa Pública Portos e Caminhos-de-Ferro de Moçambique, Maputo Port Development Company, Ministério dos Transportes and Tribunal Administrativo were interviewed. The main conclusion of the research is that, legal imperatives and structural arrangements do not allow either the Tribunal Administrativo or the Ministério dos Transportes e Comunicações to oversee the MPDC, thus they fail to hold it accountable, this environment does not stimulate efficiency. This explains the inefficiency of the process of modernization of equipment of the container terminal of the Port of Maputo and the data reinforce this position.