Mozambique Ports and Railways

Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (abbreviated CFM; in English Mozambique Ports and Railways) is a state-owned company that oversees the railway system of Mozambique and its connected ports.

[1] The system developed over more than a century from three different ports at the Indian Ocean that serve as terminals for separate lines to the hinterland.

The railroads were major targets during the Mozambican Civil War, were sabotaged by RENAMO, and are being rehabilitated.

An additional 46 km were constructed northwestwards to Vila Cabral (present-day Lichinga).

The Sena line of the Beira railroad connects to the coal fields of Moatize with the potential to link to the railway of Malawi as well as to Zambia.

Like the Ressano Garcia Railway Company, the Pretoria-Maputo line is managed by the NLBP (New Limpopo Bridge Project Investments) together with Transnet Freight Rail and CPM with the aim to rehabilitate and operate the line to the border of South Africa.

Railway network of Mozambique
New LHB Coaches added in Mozambique railways
Train timetable of Maputo
The port of Lourenço Marques in 1896