page_title: Mozambique Ports and Railways
hierarchical_section_title: Mozambique Ports and Railways
caption_attribution_description: English: Digital photograph of Caminhos de Ferro de Mocambique, Railway Station in Maputo, Mozambique. Taken by myself, Justin K G Dumpleton, during business travel 12 March 2005. This is my own work and I release this image into the public domain.
context_page_description: Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique is the parastatal authority that oversees the railway system of Mozambique and its connected ports.
  The rail system is composed of a total of 2,983 km rail of the 1,067 mm gauge that is compatible with neighboring rail systems. In addition there is a 140 km line of 762 mm gauge, the Gaza Railway.
  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. Management has been largely outsourced. At this time there is no directly interconnecting rail service between the three lines. Each line has its own development corridor.
  In August 2010, Mozambique and Botswana signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a 1,100 km railway through Zimbabwe, to carry coal from Serule in Botswana to a deepwater port at Techobanine Point in Mozambique.
context_section_description: Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (abbreviated CFM; in English Mozambique Ports and Railways) is the parastatal authority that oversees the railway system of Mozambique and its connected ports.
  The rail system is composed of a total of 2,983 km rail of the 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge that is compatible with neighboring rail systems. In addition there is a 140 km line of 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge, the Gaza Railway.
  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. Management has been largely outsourced.  At this time there is no directly interconnecting rail service between the three lines.  Each line has its own development corridor.
  In August 2010, Mozambique and Botswana signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a 1,100 km railway through Zimbabwe, to carry coal from Serule in Botswana to a deepwater port at Techobanine Point in Mozambique.
caption: The Maputo Railway Station was designed by architects Alfredo Augusto Lisboa de Lima, Mario Veiga and Ferreira da Costa, and built between 1913 and 1916. Sometimes mistaken with the work of Gustave Eiffel
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