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Dathomir is co-ordinating the commitment of capital expenditure of up to USD $345 million for road upgrading from Lubumbashi to the project and refurbishment of the Piana Mwanga hydro facility. High quality road currently being built by China First Railway from Lubumbashi to Manono. Estimated to take 12 - 24 months to complete. The 1st 200km is already under construction.
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Here's stakx's excellent post:
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For all those people, unfamiliar with infrastructure in/near Manono in the DRC.
The Manono project is approximately 500km due north of Lubumbashi the capital of the Katanga Province in the South of DRC. The project area can be accessed from Lubumbashi by 1.5-hour flight or by road. There are roads there, but in poor condition. Mpiana Muanga Hydroelectric Power Station and transmission lines were damaged in 2007 by militant forces which require repairing. Dathomir Mining Resources SARL (10% owner of Manono project) will undertake repairs to this to facilitate the planed mine.
Dathomir is co-ordinating the commitment of capital expenditure of up to USD $345 million for road upgrading from Lubumbashi to the project and refurbishment of the Piana Mwanga hydro facility. High quality road currently being built by China First Railway from Lubumbashi to Manono. Estimated to take 12 - 24 months to complete. The 1st 200km is already under construction.
Contracts were awarded to the state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation Limited to rebuild the Luanda Railway and the Benguela Railway. A privately-owned Chinese mining company rebuilt the Moçâmedes Railway stretching 2,638 km in Angola the DRC’s neighbouring country.
narrow gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in): The Benguela Railway connects to the Katanga Railway at the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The maximum design speed is 90 km per hour.The design capacity is 20 million tons of cargo and 4 million passengers per year. There are 67 stations and 42 bridges along the route of the railway
Passenger trains also ran between Lubumbashi and Lobito, connecting with passenger ship services to Europe. This provided a shorter route for Europeans working in the Katangan and Zambian Copperbelt, and the name "Benguela Railway" was sometimes used loosely to refer to the entire Lubumbashi–Lobito route, rather than the Luau–Lobito section to which it strictly applies.
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/...ents-inaugurate-rebuilt-benguela-railway.html
https://hotcopper.com.au/posts/28374888/single
