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FrançaisComplaint
- Complaint number
- NTB-000-534
- NTB Type
- 8.4. Transport related corruption
- Complaint
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On the aforemention date, one of my fuel tankers, was stopped by Mozambique Environmental Officials at the Machipanda border post. The officials advised that they wanted to inspect the fire extinguishers and the driver cooperated by placing the 4 extinguishers at their disposal.
The Officials then pulled the pin on all four extinguishers and discharged the powder. They then told the driver that they were satisfied that the extinguishers worked, and he could proceed.
You cannot do this to a fire extinguisher. It is not like an aerosol can that keeps its pressure. Once you depress the handle and discharge even a small amount of powder, the fire extinguisher is exhausted and of no further use.
Officials can check if the extinguisher is valid on the certificate on the side of the extinguisher and if the site glass indicates pressure in the green.
If we need an extinguisher and the officials have discharged it, we are at the mercy of the fire. - Status note
- At the Tripartite NTBs Online Reporting, Monitoring and Eliminating Mechanism Meeting to Launch the SMS Reporting Tool held from 9-10 April 2013 in Lusaka, ZambiaMozambique reported that this was a mistake by officer on duty and this matter has since been corrected and therefore resolved.
- Progress update note
- Policy or regulatory NTB
- No
- Location
- Mozambique: Delegação Aduaneira de Machipanda (Road) (Border post)
- Reporting Country or Region
- Zambia
- Country specific trade issue
- No
- Date of incident
- 2012-09-30
- Status
- Resolved
- Date of resolution
- 2013-04-10
- Product Description
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Fuel
- Total value
- 250.00
- Date reported
- 2012-10-11 13:24
- Modified
- 2013-04-16 10:03
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