The GAZEDA General Director, Danilo Nalá, presented an address, last 5th of April 2012, in Beira Province, during the VIII Session of the Sofala Province Development Observatory, on the topic “Development Model Based on SEZ and IFZ”.

In his address, the General Director said that the Sofala Province has conditions for the establishment of a Special Economic Zones.

Speaking on the Province potentialities, the General Director said that Sofala has conditions to establish this kind of model for (i) the Beira City is an important Commercial Warehouse and an important platform for the interland; (ii) it can be a basis for heavy industry, through the profit on energetic raw materials such as the Buzi natural gas; (iii) it can be an excellent agro-processing area, through the Zambeze Valley agriculture potential.

Additionally, he said that for a Special Economic Zones to be established it would be necessary to create basic infrastructures such as roads, schools, hospitals, among other conditions to be established by the Government.