by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Intellectual
Behind the Lobito Corridor sits a strategic template that is worth reading more carefully than the map. The Democratic Republic of Congo has been offered many roads, railways and ports over the years; what makes this one distinctive is the model of how it is being...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Property
For twenty years the argument over how Congolese copper reaches the world has been an argument about the east and the south — Dar es Salaam on the Central Corridor, Mombasa far to the north-east, and the long southern haul toward South African ports. Each route...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Consumers
A logistics corridor has customers, even if they are not the people usually pictured at a launch. Its customers are the shippers, miners and traders who must decide, cargo by cargo, whether to route their metal along it — and like any customer, they defect the moment...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Content
On a day of announcements it is easy to confuse what was declared with what was delivered. The Democratic Republic of Congo has an interest in keeping the two apart, because corridors are financed on promises and judged on evidence. On 26 October 2023, in Washington,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Lifestyle
Corridors are drawn as freight, but they are lived as towns. Behind the copper tonnage and the port statistics are Congolese places along the route — settlements around Kolwezi and across the copperbelt where a railway is not an export line but a fixture of daily...