JAPAN TO AID MALAWI
Posted on 24 December 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica), together with Malawi’s ministry of transport and public infrastructure, are to appoint consultants to undertake a feasibility study on reinstating the long-inoperable connection from Mozambique’s Sena line to the railways of Malawi. There have been no trains on this line since 1983, when the Mozambique civil war began. The Japanese government is to provide a grant of up to $US2.5 million for the study which is to include repairs to the flood-damaged Chiromo Bridge in the district of Nsanje.
Rehabilitation of the line will restore Malawi’s access to the port of Beira.
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