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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican Federation of Building Contractors has accused the government of favouring Chinese companies in public tenders for public works contracts.<\/p>\n

According to the president of the Confederation, Bento Machaila, cited on Tuesday by French International Radio (RFI), there is a \u201ccartel in the construction area\u201d, which creates privileges for Chinese companies, leaving Mozambican companies behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chinese are creating a cartel in the construction area, they create companies whose owners are the same, they set the prices (ten companies have almost identical prices and this is to influence the assessment). If the work doesn\u2019t go to A, it goes to B. If it doesn\u2019t go to B, it goes to C. We\u2019re monitoring this and the state isn\u2019t seeing it. Jobs are being given to Chinese companies and many of them don\u2019t even have licenses\u201d, Machaila protested.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a federation, we think the state should abandon this because direct awards of contracts are being abused with arguments that are not valid. What is happening is that the direct awards are benefiting a very small layer of contractors\u201d, he claimed.<\/p>\n

He also expressed concern about the state\u2019s debt to the business community, especially to small and medium-sized companies.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican Federation of Building Contractors has accused the government of favouring Chinese companies in public tenders for public works contracts. According to the president of the Confederation, Bento Machaila, cited on Tuesday by French International Radio (RFI), there is a \u201ccartel in the construction area\u201d, which creates privileges for Chinese companies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-46492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nBuilding contractors accuse government of favouring Chinese companies - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mozambican Federation of Building Contractors has accused the government of favouring Chinese companies in public te ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Building contractors accuse government of favouring Chinese companies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mozambican Federation of Building Contractors has accused the government of favouring Chinese companies in public te ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-11T17:34:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-11T18:56:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2023\/09\/sm_1694442082.868263.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"749\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Building contractors accuse government of favouring Chinese companies\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-11T17:34:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-11T18:56:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies\"},\"wordCount\":224,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2023\/09\/sm_1694442082.868263.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/building-contractors-accuse-government-of-favouring-chinese-companies\",\"name\":\"Building contractors accuse government of favouring Chinese companies - 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