If you have recently driven between Harare and Mutare, you will appreciate the dangers the road poses for non-trade users.

Zimbabwe used to be the main user of Beira port but due to its economic crisis the flow of Zimbabwean freight has fallen drastically. A similar corridor in southern Mozambique is already operational.

Yet despite efforts to forge a seamless trading corridor, Beira is only operating at 40% capacity. Work to deepen the port and therefore attract bigger vessels will soon get underway.

Shoddy repair work on a section of the Beira Corridor railway line, which is an alternative lifeline for landlocked Zimbabwe, is now proving costly to the Zimbabwean government as traffic is hit ...

Figure 1: The Development of the “Beira Corridor” in Mozambique, seen through Nighttime Light Levels in 1992, 2001, and 2012. Source ...

The Beira Corridor undertaking comes just months after the US and European Commission-backed multimillion-dollar Lubito Corridor including the Angola Zambia railway link project took centre stage.

The J&J Group is the largest integrated logistics operator on Mozambique’s Beira corridor. The company has an extensive cross border fleet which is supported by a network of trucking depots in ...

THE sealing of the Zimbabwe-China citrus trade protocol continues to inch towards full consummation with the country’s three containers of lemon that recently left Beira en route to China ...

Yet despite efforts to forge a seamless trading corridor, Beira is only operating at 40% capacity. Work to deepen the port and therefore attract bigger vessels will soon get underway.