Transport in Malawi
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[edit] Railways
total: 797 km
narrow gauge: 797 km 1.067-m gauge (2001)
[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries
Tanzania - no - break of gauge 1067/1000mm
Zambia - no - same gauge 1067mm
Mozambique - yes - same gauge 1067mm, the Nacala Corridor line via Nayuchi to the port of Nacala, and Nsanje to the Dona Ana Bridge and Beira (not operational since the war in Mozambique and in need of reconstruction.
[edit] 2006
- A Brazilian company plans to build a rail branch line to the Moatize coal mine in western Mozambique from the Nacala Corridor line to export coal via the port of Nacala; the link would cross Malawi.
- The Railroad Development Corporation map shows a proposed extension across the border to Chipata in Zambia. Central East Afican Railways, part of RDC operates the privatised Malawi Railways since a concession was awarded in December 1999.[1]
- Malawi Wants Link To Chinde - Bingu wa Mutharika, President of landlocked Malawi, has asked his Mozambiquan counterpart, Armando Guebuza, to consider the provision of a new 250km rail connection from Nsanje - southern extent of Malawi Railways - to the Indian Ocean port of Chinde, near the mouth of the Zambesi.
[edit] Maps
[edit] List of towns served by rail
- Moatize (Tete Province, Mozambique) - proposed coal mine
- Mchinji, Malawi - near Zambian border.
- Makhanga - near Mozambique border.
- Nayuchi - on Mozambique border on line to Nacala
- Nkaya - junction
[edit] List of towns proposed to be served by rail
[edit] Highways
total: 14,597 km
paved: 2,773 km
unpaved: 11,821 km (2001)
[edit] Waterways
Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km
[edit] Ports and harbours
[edit] Lake Malawi
Malawi is landlocked
- Chipoka - railhead
- Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba
[edit] Airports
44 (2001)
[edit] Airports - with paved runways
total: 6
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 4 (2002)
[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 37
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 14
under 914 m: 22 (2002)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Bradley J Knapp and Henry Posner III (June 2004). A luta continua. Railway Gazette International. Retrieved on 2007-09-03.
- ^ Railroad Association of South Africa
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