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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.
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]
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.
LUANDA (Reuters) - 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 ...
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 ...
In 2023, a joint venture was formed to invest in the Benguela railway corridor, upgrading infrastructure and services. There are plans to transport ore from mines in the Congo, and to extend services into Angola. [18]
In 2022, the Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR), a joint venture between Trafigura, Mota-Engil of Portugal, and independent Belgian rail operator Vecturis, secured a 30-year concession to operate the Lobito rail corridor, which runs across Angola to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Railway lines built, planned and under construction. The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating the railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and building new railways to serve Rwanda and Burundi.