Transport and Logistics
With an exceptional track record spanning over 17 years in the field of Transport and Logistics services, CONTRATUZ LDA stands out as a pinnacle of excellence in service provision. Leveraging our extensive experience, CONTRATUZ, Lda’s Transport and Logistics Department proudly presents a comprehensive array of 8 services, each meticulously designed to cater to diverse needs.
Explore below to discover the main operational lines of our Transport and Logistics Department, where our unparalleled expertise and commitment to excellence come together to redefine industry standards.
Transport and Logistics Studies
As the transport and logistics sector is what literally keeps the world moving, CONTRATUZ, Lda participates in the supply chain with a distinctive analysis and understanding of the systems, processes and practices that shape the way people and goods move. Consequently, we provide to supply chain operators, their financiers, donors, governments and other stakeholders with in-depth analysis on the planning, implementation and management of the flow of people, goods and services from the point of origin to the final destination, with in-transit through specific terminals, including the storage of goods. This is done without ever losing sight of the generation, processing, flow and archive of information concerning these complex supply chain processes.
Therefore, do not get distracted nor waste time in searches when you have needs in studies of the sector, whether air and airport, road, rail, port, maritime, fluvial, lake or multimodal, without or with temporary stops in specific terminals with warehouses for the case of goods. CONTRATUZ, Lda reserves you the best of the market, with a permanent professional with almost 3 decades of national and international experience, not only in studies, but also holding senior positions in companies and projects of great reference.
Private Transport
Inspired in the early times of CONTRATUZ, Lda, when we operated a fleet of buses for the regular transportation of passengers on long distance routes, our Company kept this line of transportation of people, but now turned to the corporate transport of employees, of a group of people on a private trip, or in demand of a tour. In addition, we also aggregate the rental of light vehicles for private activities, with or without a driver.
In all cases, our vehicles are equipped with the most advanced approaches to safety and comfort, giving our valued clients an experience they will certainly want to repeat. Although your journey may be long, our client can hardly feel the weight of the distance, because the on-board entertainment equipment, together with the comfort inside the cabin, always puts the customer in business class, in a true lunar dream.
These and other reasons are more than enough to always think of CONTRATUZ, Lda when you want to rent vehicles for collective or private transport of people.
Air Freight
The search for efficiency and reduction of travelling time in goods transportation turns the air mode in one of the most sought in sending or transporting merchandise due to its quickness in the total transit time from one point to another.
Notwithstanding the freight charges in the air transport being higher than in other modes, in addition to lack of adequate space for transportation of large volumes, CONTRATUZ, Lda counts on partnership with large global companies that operate in the logistics of air freight, thus allowing circumvent such constraints and add value to the offers of air freight to our customers.
Therefore, if you are looking for a partner that can help in negotiating the air freight for the transport of your goods, you can count on CONTRATUZ, Lda, since it is a more than ideal solution for transporting your air cargo with speed, efficiency and more competitive rates of the market, having a kind team of professionals with acquaintance of the regulatory framework for the transport of goods by air freight, that will confer you a VIP treatment.
Road Freight
In the road sector, CONTRATUZ, Lda is one of the very few companies in the sector with a hybrid license for goods and passenger transport, bestowing us this prerogative a great comparative advantage. The other comparative advantage is that, by force of CONTRATUZ, Lda standard operating procedures, all transportation of goods and passengers must be done under insurance cover, granting the passengers themselves as well as the owners of the goods on board total comfort over the risks of this operation.
With in-depth knowledge of national and regional legislation on the domestic and regional transport of goods and passengers, derived from direct intervention in various spheres, we ensure timely planning of all documentary processes prior to the departure of any vehicle under our flag, enabling total transit time to be kept to a minimum. This documentary compliance is allied to our focal points established at critical transit stations such as checkpoints of police, customs, migration and other authorities, which enable the physical inspection of goods and passengers as well as the documentary processing to be as short without match.
Rail Freight
We have privileged contacts with the Ports and Railways of Mozambique (CFM), as well as with the railway administrations of the countries bordering our country and beyond. Such connections allow us to access not only the most competitive tariffs of the market, but also that the cargo moving under our auspices be towed in priority, without losing sight of the observance of the general principles applicable in the involved railway administrations.
Our transport managers assigned to each moment of the operations ensure a permanent supervision at loading and offloading times to guarantee strict compliance with CONTRATUZ, Lda standard operating procedures. Furthermore, we monitor the movement of the cargo while in transit from the point of loading to the final destination, subsequently generating periodic reports which are sent to our prestigious client as often as he wishes. These and others are more than enough reasons for all your rail transportation references of your cargo, light or heavy, unitized or bulk, to end up in our Company.
Ocean Freight
Continuing our active participation in the supply chain, our company also offers you sea freight through different shipping lines and shipowners to and from several ports spread across various quadrants of the globe. Given such active participation, we have built up over many years of reputable operations a network of contacts with numerous shipping lines and other shipowners, thus allowing us to obtain unsurpassable discounts on ocean freights.
We perform with all delicacy the intermediation of sea freight with the best options in the market, not only with regards to the rate of the sea freight itself, but also with regards to the total transit time, free days granted on the equipment, as well as with regards to the demurrage or retention fees of the equipment if this occurs. We therefore invite you to benefit from all these advantages, whether for parcels in consolidation (less than container load), as for full containers; whether for dry cargo, as for liquid cargo; whether for unitised cargo, as for bulk goods.
Port Clearance
Port clearance is carried out in the light of what is stipulated in chapter IV.4 of CONTRATUZ, Lda’s Standard Operating Procedures. Consequently, we inform our esteemed customers in advance of all applicable port documents and regulations for each type of cargo, both before the relevant port operator as well as before the sector regulating authorities involved in each operation. Benefiting from our involvement in other branches of the transport and logistics chain, we trigger advance diligences with all the other stakeholders with a direct impact on port operations such as shipping lines, transporters, customs brokers hired for the purpose, inter alia, so that the documentation required for port clearance is filled in and submitted to the relevant port operator in the shortest possible time.
Furthermore, our rooting in the Ports of Beira, Nacala, Maputo and Pemba allows us to assure you preferential port tariffs on cargo handling and storage, in addition to the extended free period for storage of goods, consequently resulting in great savings for our prestigious client. Therefore, we await for your request to act on your behalf before the port operators and regulators in the above mentioned cities, so that you can enjoy the competitive advantages highlighted above in the port clearance of your goods.
Customs Clearance
We advise our valued clients on the best possible approach to the customs benefits available in Mozambique for their international trade operations, strictly observing the national legislation. We fill customs declaration meticulously, with regards to your goods, their respective legal documents and the means of transport designated by you. Considering the precepts of the national legislation that only customs brokers can interface with the customs authorities, we have a restricted network of the best customs brokers in the Country, through whom we submit the customs clearance process into the customs authorities’ system without delay.
Our services cover the whole spectrum of customs regimes, namely Permanent Imports with Exemption of Customs Duties; Permanent Imports without Exemption of Customs Duties; Temporary Imports, Exports; and Temporary Exports. Likewise, this service is available on all means of transport involved in international trade, whether by sea, rail, road or air at the main border posts in the Country, and is carried out with the highest standards of quality, speed and permanent communication flow with our prestigious client.
Warehouse Management
In this service, we apply the finest principles and procedures involved in the management of the daily operations of a warehouse, from storage contracts in accordance with each type of goods, organisation of the appropriate space, labour scheduling, stock control, execution of reception and orders delivery. Therefore, warehouse management is an important component of the supply chain, providing for directed stock rotation, cross docking to maximise the usage of valuable warehouse space, as well as the implementation of intelligent directives on incoming and outgoing goods.
A team of professionals specialised in the matter and on the most advanced information technology platforms are at our prestigious clients’ disposal to accord them a total peace of mind regarding the safety of their goods. Furthermore, under the cover of Chapter IV.6.3.2 of CONTRATUZ, Lda Standard Operating Procedures, both the stored goods and the warehousing facilities must be insured in a capital equal to or greater than the value of the concerned components, giving you a second safety belt. Furthermore, periodic reports on stock, delivery operations, reception and other details pertaining to your goods are periodically generated, with our client receiving them as an added value of our service as often as they wish.