Business Opportunities – Canada-Mozambique

Business Oportunities

AGRICULTURE

This sector offers vast opportunities for the production and export of cereals, fruits, flowers, vegetables – both for the vast local market and the world market. Indeed, over the past decade in particular the country has been exporting various agricultural products to the world market, including baby-corn, flowers, citrus, cashew nuts, various fruits, peppers and paprika to the intensely-competitive European market.

For the strategic production of these and similar products for the international market in particular, the highly fertile Zambezi valley represents an excellent opportunity, according to key feasibility studies. The chamber is well-placed to work with prospective importers, exporters and investors to tap these agricultural opportunities.

FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE

The past decade has seen this sector rapidly develop with the active participation of both local and foreign investors. This has led to strong growth and competitiveness of Mozambican seafood products in various European and Asian markets, including the high-demand Mozambican prawns and other seafoods. By all accounts Mozambique, with its unusually long, 2,700 km Indian Ocean coastline and abundant fishery resources, presents a huge but largely untapped acquatic resource base that offers excellent prospects for both regular and aquaculture fishery businesses.

INDUSTRY

One of the country’s biggest challenges is adding value to its primary products for both the domestic and international markets, so significant incentives are now available to investors seeking to establish industrial enterprises to maximize their returns using the country’s many and varied natural resources. Indeed, the natural resource base exists to support a large variety of industrial ventures all over the country, from textile and agro-industry, through aluminium, iron and steel, to coal and natural gas!

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TOURISM AND HOTELS

This sector has been growing steadily in recent years, given the major potential the country has and the public investments made in terms of infrastructural development. This has resulted in the opening up of the country to a wide variety of locations, monuments and other attractions that were previously inaccessible to visitors. Here again the country offers unique investment opportunities.

Investors may wish to consider investing in the creation and operation of national parks and reserves, or in private game farms in the interior of the country, which boasts magnificent fauna and flora. Other investors may wish to explore beach tourism businesses along the country’s 2,700 km coast, featuring various islands and archipelagos. Certainly both historic and business tourism are at the very cusp of a major take-off, and investors would be strategically placed to ride the wave of the coming tourism boom in the new and re-awakened Mozambique.

ENHANCED PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Increasingly, the Government of Mozambique, in partnership with the private sector, has been massively investing in the development of the country’s public infrastructures over the past two decades, including roads, bridges, telecommunications and energy, amongst others.

There is, however, much room for additional investment in these areas, and foreign companies are being invited to explore innovative infrastructural ventures that not only bring additional improvements but lead to significant returns on their investment. The Chamber would be happy to guide investors as they seek to pursue these opportunities.

MINERAL RESOURCES

Unsurpassed business opportunity exists in the areas of natural resource exploration, extraction, processing and utilization, given the significant variety and abundance of the country’s largely-unexploited mineral resource base. The key natural resources include natural gas, coal, gold, titanium, ilmenite, zircon, rutile, tantalite, marbles, and precious stones, and the Chamber can assist investors as they consider business action on any of these resources