"The pandemic brought new ways of working, it brought new communication mechanisms and we managed, despite the circumstances, to reach goals and objectives that we had advocated and proposed, seeking to collectively and individually improve our performance for the common good", he said.
In his message, the holder of the transport portfolio took stock of the sector during 2021, noting that with the approval of the National Master Plan for the Transport and Road Infrastructure Sector, at the end of 2020, they "have a guiding instrument" of its action "with a view to promoting a modern, safe and efficient sector that responds to the various dimensions of its intervention".
"We managed to reach the conclusive phase of the structural reforms that we proposed to carry out, at the level of almost all sectors", he indicated, emphasizing the civil aviation sector, which now has a new Civil Aviation Law, "a new governing body for the sector, endowed with total autonomy and independence, an innovative figure in the national legal framework, the first Independent Administrative Entity, the ANAC – Autoridade Nacional da Aviação Civil".
Also during this year, the minister mentioned the approval and publication of the Organic Statutes of the new regulation, supervision and inspection entities of other subsectors: the National Maritime Agency, the National Land Transport Agency, the National Institute for Investigation and Prevention of Accidents in Transport and the Angola Cargo Certification and Logistics Regulatory Agency.
The government official also refers that in the sector he oversees there are no "finished products, they evolve and need to be continuously improved", there is a "degree of unequivocal commitment to the continuous training and qualification of all the human capital in the sector".
Emphasis is still on the business level, in several domains. "Despite the circumstances, we can also consider a positive performance of the companies under supervision", he said, adding that they were able to "assure the concession of the Multipurpose Terminal of the Port of Luanda to an internationally renowned company committed to the development of the national logistics sector".
It was also possible to guarantee, at the railway level, the possibility of resuming ore exports in the south of the country, as well as "the transport of fuel and other hydrocarbons to reach their destinations, even those farthest away".
Ricardo D'Abreu also spoke about the reinforcement of public transport: "We were also able to reinforce the national urban public transport fleet with 448 new buses, including the famous machimbombos, of which 45 have already been delivered, which today provide a better quality of life for the populations. of the respective provinces, out of a total of 1299 since we started the Public Transport Strengthening Program in 2019".
About the next year, the government official considered it as "challenging", stating that they should "continue to implement the guidelines of the National Development Plan and the actions contained in the Master Plan for the Sector".
He indicated that they have projects of great economic and social impact, highlighting "the start of the Cabotage Norte project, the acceleration towards completion of the projects for the Caio Deep Water Terminal and the New Luanda International Airport, the start-up via concessions for the logistics platforms of Soyo and Luvo" as well as "the entry into operation of Automotors in Luanda and Benguela, the progressive increase in the urban public transport fleet and the introduction of the public transport pass".
Tenders will also be concluded for the concession of infrastructure and transport services, launched this year, and which in early January will launch a tender to select private partners for the construction of the Luanda Surface Metro, he indicated.
The tutelage plans for 2022 also include the Social Fund or Mutual Association of Transport Workers and the training and continuous training of professionals and their certification.
"We need to attract and generate talents, only in this way will it be possible for us to think with optimism for the future", he said, predicting a 2022 with "more victories" and "prosperities for all members of the sector and for the entire Angolan people".
