Africa-Press – Mozambique. The stretch of railway between the northern Mozambican cities of Cuamba and Nampula reopened to traffic on Wednesday, after an interruption of nearly a week following the derailment of a coal train on the bridge over the Namutimbwa River, close to Cuamba.
A press release issued by Nacala-Logistics, the company that operates the line, confirms that, following the removal of debris from the tracks, trains are moving again between Cuamba and Nampula.
The accident interrupted traffic from Nacala-a-Velha on the coast to Cuamba, but it did not affect traffic further west, on the stretch from Cuamba to Entre-Lagos on the border with Malawi, or on the branch line from Cuamba to Lichinga, capital of Niassa province.
Nacala-Logistics runs trains from the Moatize coal basin, in the central province of Tete, to the coal terminal in Nacala-a-Velha. The line also carries general cargo and passenger trains.
Last week’s derailment caused two deaths and seven other people were injured, two of them seriously. They were airlifted to a health unit in Maputo where they are receiving suitable health care.
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