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A Luta Continua! PROGRESS REPORT A luta continua! ABOVE: Nacala port is the principal gateway for traffic to and from the region Despite financing delays and setbacks caused by LEFT: Trains meeting at Liwonde on the CEAR main line between Nkaya and Nayuci cyclones and famine, a multinational concessionaire is All photos: Railroad Development Corp starting to make progress with the renovation and Mchinji via the capital at Lilongwe and operation of the Nacala Corridor linking Mozambique south towards Mozambique’s Beira and Malawi Corridor via Blantyre. This latter line is unserviceable south of Makhanga due to washaways, destruction of the line and Bradley J Knapp and Henry Posner III For a variety of reasons Africa is a very damage to the Zambezi River bridge Railroad Development Corp* difficult environment in which to find that occurred during Mozambique’s civil opportunities meeting these parameters. war. To date, the Nacala Corridor has been • An uncompleted 26 km extension from HIS YEAR marks a critical point in our only investment on the continent. Mchinji in Malawi to Chipata in Zambia. the long-running programme to The corridor consists of four The alignment has been graded, and a Trevitalize the Nacala Corridor components: new station has been built at Chipata, linking Zambia and Malawi to the • The Port of Nacala, owned by but only 3 km of track was ever laid, at Indian Ocean port of Nacala in Mozambique’s parastatal railway and the ‘far end’ of the extension! Mozambique. After nearly seven years port authority CFM. The 1 067 mm gauge network is of negotiations, funding has been put • The Northern Railway network in single-track throughout, and largely in place for renovating the line, Mozambique, completed in the 1970s, unsignalled in both countries. Train streamlining the management and and also owned by CFM. This has a main operations are managed by radio in putting the operation back onto a line of 611 km which runs from the port Mozambique and by an electro- commercial footing, able to support the of Nacala to the Malawi border at mechanical token system in Malawi. economic and industrial revitalisation of Nayuci with a 262 km branch line from the local community. Cuamba to Lichinga. The disused 41 km Concessioning proposal Monapo – Lumbo branch near the coast RDC’s involvement with the Nacala The Nacala Corridor has proved is excluded from the concession. Corridor began in the mid-1990s. In unusually complex for its size but • Central East African Railways, which 1997 the government of Mozambique nevertheless it provides a valuable case operates the 797 km network of the announced that it was looking for a study of how projects in developing former Malawi Railways. This runs from private-sector solution for the countries can evolve from plans to the Mozambique border at Nayuci to development of the Nacala Corridor, reality. Hence the title of this article – a Nkaya, where it splits into two routes covering both the port and the slogan coined by the first President of running north to the Zambian border at railway, together serving as the only Mozambique after independence, Samora Machel, which translates as ‘the struggle Lake Malawi continues’! ZAMBIA MALAWI Lichinga Nacala Corridor RDC’s investment philosophy is based CEAR lines CFM lines on a diversity of experiences in many Salima Cahur Other CFM lines economic, political and cultural Mchinji Mitande environments. Foremost is the discipline Lilongwe Chipoka that three factors are essential for a Nacala Chipata Balaka Cuamba Monapo successful railway business. In Ribáuè descending order of priority, these are: Liwonde 0 160 km Lumbo governments which are serious about Nayuci Malema Nampula involving the private sector, strong local Nkaya N partners, and rational competition Blantyre among bidders. Moatize Shire River MOZAMBIQUE Zambezi River Chiromo * Bradley J Knapp is Vice-President of Railroad ZIMBABWE Development Corp and formerly General Manager of CEAR. Henry Posner III is Chairman Border of RDC, based in Pittsburgh. Further details of the Indian Ocean company and its activities can be found at Vila de Sena www.rrdc.com Beira © RBI 2004 www.railwaygazette.com June 2004 Railway Gazette International 363 PROGRESS REPORT ABOVE: A refurbished diesel loco shunts at ches, which resulted in the formation of corridors leading south to Durban and Kanengo yard in the Malawi capital Lilongwe Corredor de Desenvolvimento do Norte. north to Dar-es-Salaam. Additionally, CDN is structured as a joint venture CEAR suffered major damage from RIGHT: Track has not yet been laid on the between CFM and a private-sector Cyclone Delfina in January 2003 that completed formation of the 26 km cross- partner, Sociedade de Desenvolvimento has left the Lilongwe section isolated for border link between Mchinji and Chipata do Corredor de Nacala. SDCN in turn is more than a year. All of this is reflected owned by a consortium of private-sector in CEAR’s disappointing traffic levels to entities: ERL, Mozambique freight for- date (Table I). connection to Malawi Railways. warder and port operator Manica, various Traffic on the corridor is predominantly We were contacted by Edlow Resources Mozambican private investors and RDC. exports sent via the port of Nacala. Ltd, an international company with SDCN began negotiations with the These consist of sugar, tobacco, pigeon previous investment in Mozambique’s government of Mozambique in 1997. mining sector. Our skills were felt to be However, these negotiations proved more La lutte continue complementary – theirs being regional difficult than anticipated, and obtaining business experience and ours being in finance was even more difficult. En dépit de retards de financement et de railway operations. Together we contretemps causés par des cyclones et la responded to the government’s approa- Malawi moves ahead famine, un concessionnaire multinational Despite the slow progress in Mozam- commence à réaliser quelques progrès dans End of the line; CEAR’s route to Beira is bique, the process had the effect of le domaine de la rénovation et de currently broken by this washout by the Shire stimulating Malawi to award an operat- l’exploitation de la ligne du corridor de River at Chiromo and by war damage to the ing concession for Malawi Railways, in Nacala reliant le Mozambique au Malawi. Le Zambezi River bridge at Vila de Sena the interest of taking a more proactive trafic a augmenté depuis que les Central role in the development of the Nacala East African Railways ont repris le réseau du Corridor. Malawi Railways was Malawi en 1999, mais les progrès futurs concessioned with effect from December dépendent des apports de financement pour les réparations à effectuer à la ligne au 1 1999. The new operator, CEAR, has the Mozambique et de la mise en place d’une same shareholders as CDN. équipe d’exploitation unie We are very proud of CEAR’s leadership role as the first rail privatisation in Africa Der Kampf geht weiter not involving a parastatal operator. All the other successful concessionaires on Trotz Finanzierungsproblemen und durch the continent have been backed by the Zyklone und Hungersnöte bedingte state railways of France and South Africa Verzögerungen beginnt ein multinationaler in some form or other. Konzessionär Fortschritte zu machen bei der CEAR has made some substantial Renovierung und Inbetriebnahme des Nacala achievements in its first few years, Corridors, welcher Mozambique mit Malawi including the in-house rehabilitation of verbindet. Der Verkehr hat zugenommen seit locomotives to a high level of reliability, die Central East African Railways das and the modification of varied wagon Malawische Netz 1999 übernommen haben, types to reflect individual customers’ aber weitere Fortschritte hängen stark von needs. But with half of the corridor der Finanzierung für die Reparaturen der Strecke in Mozambique ab sowie dem remaining in state ownership, CEAR has Einsetzen einer konsolidierten been somewhat left on its own, Betriebsleitung competing with Table I. CEAR traffic in Malawi one hand tied La lucha continua behind its back, Year Import Export Local Total Tonne-km like every railway A pesar de las demoras financieras y los tonnes tonnes tonnes tonnes million commercially contratiempos provocados por ciclones y Malawi Railways dependent on hambrunas, un concesionario multinacional 1995 77 500 35 200 226 400 339 100 63·1 other operators. comienza a realizar progresos con la 1996 87 800 32 700 131 600 252 100 43·3 Although CEAR is renovación y operación del Corredor Nacala 1997 100 600 37 600 145 100 283 300 46·8 the only rail oper- que une a Mozambique y Malawi. El tráfico 1998 115 700 27 800 167 100 310 600 46·6 ator in Malawi, it ha aumentado desde que los Central East 1999 108 700 38 600 196 900 344 200 53.5 faces substantial African Railways se hicieron cargo de la red competition from nacional de Malawi en 1999, pero poder Central East African Railways llevar a cabo mayores progresos depende de 2000 155 100 101 000 249 700 505 800 79·6 lorries moving traffic to and from la posibilidad de lograr mayor financiación 2001 139 700 135 600 172 000 447 300 99·8 para la reparación de la línea en 2002 186 000 93 700 183 500 463 200 95·0 the port of Beira in Mozambique y de poder consolidar un 2003 150 000 83 300 39 700 273 000 81·2 Mozambique, and equipo de operaciones from road and rail 364 Railway Gazette International June 2004 Progress REPORT peas, and tea. Import traffic to Malawi 11 CFM-owned GE U20-Cs dating from LEFT: A mixed train to Makhanga arrives at consists of fertiliser, fuel, food products the 1970s. Two Alstom-built locos Limbe, just south of Blantyre such as vegetable oil and grain, plus donated in the early 1990s have been containerised consumer goods.
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