Customs officers in Nacala port, in the northern province of Nampula, have admitted that there could have been a failure in the control system which allowed the loading of hundreds of containers onto a ship under suspicious circumstances.On Tuesday the customs authority began an operation to reverify the suspicious cargo which is composed of 600 containers of timber. The cargo was seized before the ship could set sail for China.The press officer for the northern region of the Mozambican Tax Authority (AT) told the daily newspapers “Noticias” that the operation to reverify the goods is going to last several days.According to Albano Naroromele the decision to seize the containers followed an anonymous tip off that the ship “La-Tursw 51 N” was about to leave port with irregular cargo on-board. “Noticias” reports that the suspect goods were transported in trucks from the city of Nampula to Nacala port.If this is indeed an attempt to export wood illegally, it will not be the first case in Nacala in recent times. In 2007 authorities seized 750 containers of unprocessed wood at the port and the owners of the logs were fined. But rather than pay the fine and the storage fees the representatives of the eight Chinese companies involved simply disappeared.
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