More on Nsanje Port

The prospects of the Nsanje port are improving rapidly. Mota-Engels and Djibouti’s involvements are only part of the story. One additional factor that may prove crucial is that the interest in make the Zambezi navigable is also shared by Mozambique. The huge coal finds in the Tete province mean that the rehabilited Sena rail line, from the Tete coal belt to the port of Beira cannot handle such large quantities of coal, Hence the search for other outlets. The two that have been mooted include sending the coal on barges down the Zambezi and building a new railway across southern Malawi to take the coal to Nacala. Down here in Chingwe's Hole we suspect Mota-Engels  knows more about what is cooking on the Mozambique side, hence its decision to build the facilities in Nsanje on its own.