The Beira Railroad Corporation (CCFB) is a railroad company formed by a lease from the Mozambique Port and Railway Authority (CFM) to the Indian Rites and Ircon International consortium to operate a railroad that originates from the port of Beira, Mozambique as terminal. The Beira line is important as it provides a port access for landlocked states such as Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and the Katanga province. Originally the Beira railroad already established a connection to Salisbury, now Harare, in 1899 and had been a link in the rail system of southern Africa. The Beira railroad has two major segments, the Machipanda line to Zimbabwe, and the Sena line to the coal fields of Moatize with further connection to Malawi. Both segments suffered during the guerilla fighting in the 1980s when RENAMO sabotaged the railroad. Operational activity has been regained on the Machipanda line, and rehabilitation is expected to be completed on the sena line by 2009. Jump to: navigation, search Beira can mean one of the following: In the Celtic mythology of Scotland, Beira (mythology) was mother to all the gods and goddesses. ... Capital Lubumbashi Created June 1960 Dissolved January 1963 Demonym Katangan Katanga is the southern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regional capital Lubumbashi (formerly Elizabethville). ... Harare (formerly Salisbury), estimated population 5,480,645 (2004), is the capital of Zimbabwe. ... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ... The Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO; Portuguese: Resistência Nacional Moçambicana) is a conservative political party in Mozambique led by Afonso Dhlakama. ...
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Beira Jump to: navigation, search Beira can mean one of the following: In the Celtic mythology of Scotland, Beira (mythology) was mother to all the gods and goddesses. ...
The BeiraRailroadCorporation (CCFB) is a railway company formed by a lease from the Mozambique Port and Railway Authority (CFM) to the Indian Rites and Ircon International consortium to operate a railroad that originates from the port of Beira, Mozambique as terminal.
The Beira line is important as it provides a port access for landlocked states such as Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and the Katanga province.
The Beira railway has two major segments, the Machipanda line to Zimbabwe, and the Sena line to the coal fields of Moatize with further connection to Malawi.
The one major feature that railroads shared all over the world was that they represented the presence of that government in its territories, whether the rail line was built by the government or by private interests at a government's urging.
The railroad became the "permanent way"; it was possibly the fastest and best way to show your presence either to a region's citizenry or to other nations.
In 1895 the Beira Junction Railway was formed by both BSAC and Portugese interests to extend the line from Fontesvilla thirty-five miles down the river to Beira.
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