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Impact of Limpopo line closure

    JOHANNESBURG

    The closure of the flood-wrecked Limpopo line, linking Zimbabwe to the
    Mozambican port of Maputo, has so far cost Mozambique's publicly-owned ports
    and railway company, CFM, some US $7.5 million.

    The Maputo daily, 'Noticias', on Saturday quoted a CFM press officer as
    saying that the losses are running at about US $50,000 a day, PANA reported.
    With the 534-km line out of commission, Zimbabwean exports destined for Maputo have to transit through South Africa.

    CFM has begun emergency rehabilitation on the worst affected stretches at a
    cost of US $7 million and hopes that the line will be operational by
    September, PANA reported. Major work on the line is currently under way in
    Chokwe district, where 14 km of track was destroyed by the flooding of the
    Limpopo river caused by cyclones earlier this year.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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