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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The railway line roughly follows old trade routes between the ancient trading centre of Benguela and its hinterland of the Bié plateau. [9] In 1899, the Portuguese government initiated the construction of the railway to give access to the central Angolan plateau and the mineral wealth of the then Congo Free State. [10]
In 2023, the Lobito Atlantic Railway took over this corridor. [14] The following lines have been completely removed and are not listed for future rehabilitation: Mayumbe line: Boma to Tshela, 1889–1984, 610 mm (2 ft) gauge, [6] 140 km [4] long and opened in stages from 1901 to 1913. [10] removed in 1984. [15]
In 2023, the governments of Zambia, DR Congo and Angola agreed to a 30-year concession for the 1700 km section of the parallel Benguela railway (Lobito Corridor) from Kolwezi to the Atlantic coast (Lobito; Benguela) in order to link the landlocked Copperbelt Region with its closest ocean (the Atlantic Ocean) for trade, [2] as Zambia and DR ...
All railway infrastructure, lines, tracks, stations, and maintenance facilities were declared to be in the public domain and controlled by the state. The three railway companies became Empresa publica (E.P.), government-operated enterprises reporting to the transport ministry. The infrastructure was separated from the operation of the trains ...