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9:03 CAT | 19 Jan 2016
In file Club of Mozambique.
Trains on the Sena line have been halted since Saturday January 16 following the derailment of a locomotive of the Brazilian mining company Vale, causing considerable damage to the line and the train itself.
The derailment happened shortly after 6.40 a.m. between the Sinjal and Mapangali stations in the districts of Doa and Mutarara in Tete povince. According to a Ports and Railways (CFM) source, the accident was due to heavy rains in the region washing away the ballast that supports the railway.
The CFM has already sent workers and equipment from Beira to start restoring the line, which carries 21 to 25 trains a day, mainly passengers and coal to the port of Beira. Another repair crew has been mobilized from Tete province.
The Sena line was closed to traffic for the same reasons in February 2013, when 800 metres of line between the Sinjal and Doa railway stations was destroyed, affecting communities as far away as Malawi which depend on the Beira-Moatize trains for supplies.
Mining companies Rio Tinto and Vale Mozambique, who used the line for the export of ore, estimated that the three-week interruption cost them in the region of US$8 million, not counting the US$400,000 and US$500,000 for railway repairs.
Losses for the latest interruption are still being calculated.
Source: Jornal Notícias
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