Port of Maputo

Mozal Aluminium Smelter

Mozambique's largest industrial exporter, converting imported alumina into primary aluminium using hydro-based electricity.

Capacity

Approx. 580,000 tonnes per annum aluminium

Status

Operating; long-term electricity supply is the critical variable

Mozambique petroleum licensing round (INP)

Competitive award of exploration and production concession contracts for offshore and onshore blocks. Terms, blocks and deadlines must be confirmed directly on the INP portal.

Mozambique LNG contractor and supplier registration

Local content and supplier registration channels for construction, logistics, catering, civil works and specialist services around the Afungi site.

Mozambique transmission backbone participation

Mphanda Nkuwa cannot deliver value without new high-voltage transmission, creating opportunities in EPC, financing and equipment supply.

Aluminium

Smelting is a power business. Africa's largest smelters — Mozal in Mozambique and Hillside in South Africa — depend on long-term electricity supply.

From molecules to metal: can Mozambique convert gas into industry?

Mozambique's strategic question is not whether it can export LNG, but whether any of those molecules become domestic industrial capacity.

Country intelligence: Mozambique resource economy

Gas, graphite, coal, heavy sands and aluminium in one economy — and the infrastructure that determines whether they connect.

Why bauxite value addition keeps stalling

Alumina refining is capital-heavy and energy-intensive; the economics turn on long-term power price, not on ore availability.

African liquefaction capacity: what is actually under construction

Separating announced capacity from sanctioned, financed and physically progressing capacity across Nigeria, Mozambique and Egypt.