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Central Africa was begun building an infrastructure that had to make. Economic and social progress of the region as possible a century ago With Allied forces are Belgians and Congolese managed to achieve. Undeniably remarkable results Significantly the wealth of the soil was already being reclaimed, so that the raw materials are deposited, in spite of the many difficulties that arise from the soil and the great distances at this time. Regularly bear their own on foreign markets The cornerstone of the Congolese progress has been the happy solution, which one trembles found. shipping container for sale For transport problems Only through the mediation shipping container for sale of OTRACO shipping container for sale the designated road, the River Congo with its highly variable flow, could be fully exploited. This was OTRACO the flow as it were, to submit to it navigable for themselves and in some places the task to contribute. To the railway We would like to bring this website tribute to the wonderful work that was achieved by OTRACO well as its thousands of agents, who without any interruption contributed to the development of the systems and the rational use of transport. We are proud at the thought that OTRACO one of the finest institutions by Belgian Administration will be transferred. The independent Congo Read more via this link
In the Belgian Congo engineers spread their talents exhibited by laying connecting Matadi to Leopoldville. Railway to This line was the umbilical cord that was essential to the fight against the slave trade, shipping container for sale to the end of the veroer on the back and the valorisation of Central Africa.
Under the impetus of Captain Albert shipping container for sale Thys and with the support shipping container for sale of LEOPOLD II, the construction of the 398 km long Iijn was begun under the direction of Hector CHARM ANNE, it was completed only in 1898 under the leadership of Georges Espanet. This task was scarcely terminated when the Belgians started the construction shipping container for sale of the railway Mayumbe in the same year, the track reached Lukala (in km 8l) in 1901, the building was put on in 1910 and reached the railway terminus, Tshela (at km 140), in 1915.
The lines of communication had to be over Stanleyville (anciens de la Colonie). Continue pulled The main idea that prevailed at the time for transport, consisted in the creation of long north-south rail lines that would traverse areas. With different climate This would be the creation of inter-regional traffic to favor. LEOPOLD II and engineers who surrounded him, shared this view. The circumstances brought the prince is yet to assign his plan and implement a mixed rail and Shipping line in the direction of Katanga, which would, moreover, may also be included in the Trans African Railway. Therefore, the Empain group the realization of this part of the Congolese was just charged. The first section of 125 km, which was inaugurated in 1906, breaking the watevallen between Stanleyville shipping container for sale and Ponthier city and the second, which was 355 km long and was taken into use in 1911 Kindu covenant with Kongolo. In the same year the work on the line Kabalo-Albert City on Lake Tanganyika started: this route that runs through the rocky valley of the Lukuga, was completed only in 1916. While the British had adopted, 1,067 m (3'6 ") wide track, the track gauge was the Chemin de Fer des Grands Lacsu (CFt) 1.00 m
The connection of Katanga in the Congo was just a matter of urgency, because in 1910 the railway reached the Cape Elizabeth Town. The construction of the line Elizabeth City Lukama was started in 1911 by the two ends together, the works were seriously delayed by the war, and this section of 710 km was completed in l9l8. The line of r, Chemin de Fer du Bas-Congo au Katanqarr (BCK), which was an extension of that of Rodesi, was built with the track gauge of 1,067 m through the net of the CFL and the River Congo, they formed The initial evacuation for Katanga fully lay on Congolese territory. The founder of the company "was JADOT Jean, who had distinguished himself. shipping container for sale Recently in China Given the short time since Belgians were involved in the mines of Mozambique, studied the inqenieurs Paul FONTAINAS and KINNEN is the trac of a railway from Tete to Beira. shipping container for sale B. The period 1924 to 1960
During this period, the Belgians shipping container for sale in the Congo deployed a large activity: completing cle lines Kabalo-ibertstad and Elizabeth City Bukama, a second connection Katanga tlantische