Sena Line: Passenger trains resume a month after cuts caused by Cyclone Freddy
-
Loading... - Martins Abilio
- 19 Apr 2023
- 62 Views
- 0 Like
- 0 Comment
Passenger services on the Sena railway line in central Mozambique were due to resume this Tuesday, a month after they were cut due to Cyclone Freddy, the authorities announced yesterday.
“The circulation of Beira-Moatize passenger trains” will resume, “obeying the same schedules [as before],” the Company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) says.
The line was cut in the district of Doa, Tete province, in March, interrupting circulation between the port of Beira in Sofala province, central Mozambique, and Moatize, an important coal production area in Tete province.
Flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy also washed away part of a railway bridge in Mutarara district, also in Tete province, leaving a section of the Sena Line suspended between a bridge support and the bank of the river.
A month later, “passenger trains will start circulating again and then the freight trains will follow”, Governor of Tete Domingos Viola was quoted by Rádio Moçambique as saying yesterday.
Governor Viola said that the interruption of circulation had caused both the companies that use the line and the general population “very large losses”. Read More…
