CLIN, or the Sociedade do Corredor Logístico Integrado do Norte (Integrated Northern Logistical Corridor Society), is a business company related to logistics, whose main business is railway management in Mozambique and Malawi.
[1] In 1997 was formed a consortium between state owned Mozambique Ports and Railways (CFM) and the Sociedade de Desenvolvimento do Corredor de Nacala (SDCN), composed of American rail operator Railroad Development Corporation (RDC), mining company Edlow Resources, and various Mozambican interests.
[3] It was founded in response to the Mozambican government's request for private operators to take control of the 1970s-built state owned Nacala railway, though negotiations took almost a decade and control was not handed over to SDCN until January 2005, at which time the company began rehabilitation of the west end of the rail line from Cuamba to the Malawi border and port improvements at Nacala.
[5] In 2009, Mozambique received a US$500 million investment from Denmark, the Netherlands, and the European Union to develop coal fields around Moatize in western Mozambique, with the majority of the money earmarked for improving SDCN trackage and constructing a new line through Malawi directly to Mozambican mines.
[10] Two new lines will be built, as well as the new coal port; one between Moatize and the Malawi border, and the other between Mossuril and Ponta Mamuaxi.