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The Lobito–Dar es Salaam Railway is a planned narrow gauge railway line that connects the Angolan port city of Lobito to the Tanzanian port city of Dar es Salaam, through the Zambian city of Kapiri Mposhi. [1] It is an African transcontinental railroad connecting the Atlantic and Indian oceans and it is financed by China. [2]
The Lobito Atlantic Railway is a joint venture between Trafigura, Mota-Engil, and Vecturis, an independent rail operator. Trafigura plans to invest $455 million in Angola and up to $100 million in DR Congo. [2] [3] We see the Lobito rail corridor as a partnership between the private and public sectors.
It starts in Lobito, Angola (north-east of Benguela), as part of the EN100 route.After a few kilometres north-east, it becomes the EN250 route eastwards. It is the EN250 route for the remainder of the Angolan section, through Cuíto, to Luau, Moxico Province, where it crosses the Kasai River Borderline into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and the town of Dilolo.
The initiative aims to create an efficient transport link from Africa’s mineral-rich interior to the port of Lobito on its west coast for export. A rejuvenated railway could change how minerals ...
LOBITO, Angola (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden met African leaders in the Angolan port of Lobito on Wednesday to advance a plan to extend a railway that could channel critical minerals from ...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed progress in the construction of the Lobito Corridor, a rail link key to metals exports from the central African Copperbelt, during a visit to Angola ...
Angola - no direct link - but indirectly via DR Congo to Benguela on the Benguela Railway - same gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). In October 2023, Zambia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Angola, DR Congo, the United States and the European Union for the construction of a new railway line connecting northwestern Zambia to the Lobito Atlantic ...
Nacala Corridor: road to Lilongwe then rail to Nacala, Mozambique. Tazara Corridor: road or rail via Kapiri Mposhi to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Lobito Corridor: rail via DR Congo to Lobito Bay, Angola (not currently operational, depends on Benguala Railway re-opening). Corridors 1 to 6 may also be used by southeastern DR Congo though Zambia.