Several companies are benefiting from what is being dubbed a railway renaissance in Africa as new opportunities emerge in markets across the continent buoyed by a rush for mineral wealth. But things are far from simple, as Paul Ash explains.
THE prospect of a direct rail link from the coal mines of Mozambique's western Tete province and the Indian Ocean port of Nacala via Malawi has moved a step closer following the signing of a build-and-operate concession agreement between the Malawian government and mining giant Vale.