ANGOLA: The Ministry of Transport has called tenders for a concession to operate and maintain the 855 km Namibe Corridor, which it wants to see run as a ‘competitive, efficient and financially sustainable’ asset supporting high volume operations as part of the wider region’s principal logistics routes.
The Namibe Corridor is based on the 1 067 mm gauge Moçâmedes Railway which runs inland from the port of Namibe (formerly Moçâmedes) to Menongue, with branches to Jamba and Tchamutete. Resources in the area served include iron, copper, cobalt, chromium, titanium, quartz and ornamental stone, and the railway has an established cargo base of between five and six million tonnes of mineral and agricultural traffic per year.
The concession would run for 30 years, extendable to 50 years, and would cover operations, maintenance, modernisation and potentially network expansion to Namibia and Zambia.
Applications are invited by May 4 2026.
The concession is designed to provide legal stability and a competitive business environment. This builds on the model used for the Lobito Corridor, where the Lobito Atlantic Holdings consortium of Trafigura, Mota-Engil and Vecturis has a 30-year concession to modernise, maintain and operate the 1 344 km railway connecting the deep water port of Lobito to Luau on the border with the DR Congo.
