Central Africa — Concept Stage

Central Africa — a network to the MMC standard.

7 corridors linking 20 cities, about 5,300 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 6,300 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 8 cross-border links and crossings. Kinshasa and Brazzaville to Katanga, the Lobito corridor across Angola, and Chad on the Trans-Sahel Line.

The Network Concept

The corridors.

Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.

Schematic map of an MMC network concept for Central Africa: corridors, cross-border links, sea crossings, mountain tunnels and the spines. — MMC Central Africa network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.

Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.

AO-1 Lobito: Lobito – Huambo – Luena – Luau
CD-1 Lobito: Dilolo – Kolwezi – Lubumbashi
TD-1 Trans-Sahel: N'Djamena – Abéché – Adré
CG-1 Congo–Ocean: Pointe-Noire – Dolisie – Brazzaville
CG-2 Sangha: Ouesso – Brazzaville
CD-2 Kinshasa–Katanga: Kinshasa – Kikwit – Kananga – Mwene-Ditu – Kamina – Kolwezi
AO-2 Atlantic: Luanda – Lobito

Engagement

To initiate the programme in Central Africa.

The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Central Africa: Make contact.