The Lobito Integrated Economic Corridor Development Project is a multinational transport and regional integration project covering Zambia and Angola, designed to improve connectivity, trade facilitation, and broader economic development along the Lobito Corridor. The project forms part of a phased programme to develop a new greenfield railway linking Zambia’s Copperbelt and North-Western regions to Angola and the Port of Lobito, thereby connecting the Copperbelt to global markets through a shorter and more efficient Atlantic route. The full corridor investment includes approximately 829 km of new railway infrastructure, comprising 550 km in Zambia and 279 km in Angola, to connect Chingola in Zambia to Luacano in Angola and onward to the existing Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR). The railway will be implemented as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) under a user-pay, design-build-finance-operate-maintain-transfer model, with the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) as project developer. In addition to the railway, the project includes the improvement of approximately 105 km of the Mwinilunga–Jimbe road in Zambia under this phase, the construction of a One-Stop Border Post (OSBP), trade and transport facilitation measures, institutional support, and compensation and resettlement activities. The total cost of the present phase is estimated at UA 194 million, financed by an ADF loan of UA 186.1 million (including UA 2.7 million ADF-PBA and UA 183.4 million ADF-RO), a Rome Process/Mattei Plan Financing Facility (RPFF) grant of UA 7.3 million / EUR 8.6 million, and an in-kind Government counterpart contribution of UA 0.6 million

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African Development Bank Group

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