[1][2][3] The railway line will offer a direct railway transport route of goods and people between the two countries, as well between Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the port of Durban in South Africa, being an alternative to the existing route through Zimbabwe.
The completion of the combined railway and road bridge over the Zambezi and the new railway link is supposed to allow for swifter transport of goods and people in the Southern African region.
It is not known if the existing line to Francistown needs upgrading to allow for the proposed increase in railway transports.
[3] It is prospected that the railway will follow a merely straight northern direction along the A3 road from Mosetse to Nata, Botswana and then along the A33 highway between Nata and Kazungula on the south bank of the Zambezi river, a distance of 367 km.
It will then pass the 923 metre long Kazungula Bridge directly from Botswana to Zambia.