- Transport in Malawi
Railways
"total:"797 km
"narrow gauge:"797 km 1.067-m gauge (2001)Railway links with adjacent countries
* Tanzania - no -
break of gauge 1067/1000mm
* Zambia - no - same gauge 1067mm
* Mozambique - yes - same gauge 1067mm, the Nacala Corridor line via Nayuchi to the port ofNacala , andNsanje to theDona Ana Bridge andBeira (not operational since the war in Mozambique and in need of reconstruction.)Maps
* [http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/malawi.pdf UN Map]
* [http://www.rrdc.com/images/map_cear_cdn_new.jpgRRDC]2006
* A Brazilian company plans to build a rail branch line to the
Moatize coal mine in western Mozambique from the Nacala Corridor line to export coal via the port ofNacala ; the link would cross Malawi.* The
Railroad Development Corporation map shows a proposed extension across the border toChipata inZambia . Central East Afican Railways, part of RDC operates the privatisedMalawi Railways since a concession was awarded in December 1999. [cite web| url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news_view/article/2004/06/3652/a_luta_continua.html| title=A luta continua| publisher="Railway Gazette International " | author=Bradley J Knapp and Henry Posner III| month=June | year=2004| accessdate=2007-09-03| ]* Malawi Wants Link To Chinde -
Bingu wa Mutharika , President of landlockedMalawi , has asked his Mozambiquan counterpart,Armando Guebuza , to consider the provision of a new 250km rail connection fromNsanje - southern extent ofMalawi Railways - to the Indian Ocean port ofChinde , near the mouth of the Zambesi.
*List of transport museums Stations served
Highways
"total:"14,597 km
"paved:"2,773 km
"unpaved:"11,821 km (2001)Waterways
Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km
Ports and harbours
Lake Malawi
Malawi is
landlocked *
Chipoka -railhead
*Monkey Bay ,Nkhata Bay ,Nkhotakota ,Chilumba Airports
"total:" 44 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways
"total:"6
"over 3,047 m:"1
"1,524 to 2,437 m:"1
"914 to 1,523 m:"4 (2002)Airports - with unpaved runways
"total:"37
"1,524 to 2,437 m:"1
"914 to 1,523 m:"14
"under 914 m:"22 (2002)See also
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Malawi References
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