US-financed Lobito port rail corridor aims to speed delivery of minerals — and more — for export

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Biden visits US-financed Angolan rail hub

President of the United States makes the first trip to the continent in his term of office. An emblematic project will facilitate the export of strategic minerals from Congo and Zambia through the Angolan port of Lobito. “It's a revolution,” said the President of the United States, Joe Biden, in Angola, about the emblematic project of the “Lobito Corridor”, an important railway and commercial axis that intends, in the future, to cross the contin…

Presidente dos EUA faz primeira viagem ao continente em seu mandato. Projeto emblemático vai facilitar exportação de minerais estratégicos de Congo e Zâmbia por meio do porto angolano de Lobito "É uma revolução", declarou hoje o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, em Angola, sobre o emblemático projeto do "Corredor de Lobito", um importante eixo ferroviário e comercial que pretende, no futuro, atravessar o continente de leste a oeste.
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In Angola, Biden calls the railway corridor that will cut Africa a 'revolution'

US President Joe Biden arrived in the Angolan port city of Lobito on Wednesday (December 4). This was the last day of his trip to Africa. He highly praised the Lobito Corridor Railway (Lobito Corridor Railway). This railway is viewed as a response to the CCP's “Belt and Road” initiative in Africa.

美國總統拜登於週三（12月4日）抵達安哥拉港口城市洛比托。這是他非洲之行的最後一天。他大力稱讚洛比托走廊鐵路（Lobito Corridor railway）。這條鐵路被視為是對中共在非洲的「一帶一路」的回應。

拜登訪安哥拉洛比托港 宣傳橫跨非洲鐵路計劃

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Biden visits the port of Lobito in Angola to promote trans-African railway plans

LUANDA, Angola—On his final day in Angola, President Joe Biden traveled to the coastal town of Catumbela on Dec. 4 to visit a port terminal, a key site for his signature infrastructure project aimed at securing U.S. access to Africa’s rich mineral resources.
During the visit, Biden toured the Lobito port terminal and held meetings to review the progress made in the multi-billion-dollar railway infrastructure project, which is expected to play a …

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Biden Touts US Railway Investment Project in Africa

Lobito, Angola — President Joe Biden got a first-hand look Wednesday at a U.S.-financed rail project that weaves together his personal love of railroads with his desire to leave a legacy in Africa that will outlive his administration.
The Lobito Corridor is a 1,300-kilometer rail line stretching from copper-rich Zambia to the port of Lobito in the southwest nation of Angola. The network will form a “strategic economic corridor” under the Biden a…

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LOBITO, Angola >> President Joe Biden met African leaders in the Angolan port of Lobito on Wednesday to advance a plan to extend a railway that could channel critical minerals from Congo and Zambia to the West via Lobito, and counter Chinese clout in the region.

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Benguela -- The Multilateral Summit on the Lobito Corridor plays an important role in attracting investments to boost this US-backed railway project, the provincial governor of Benguela, Manuel Nunes Júnior said today.

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Angola: Benguela Governor Highlights Lobito Corridor Summit Importance

President Biden visits Angola to promote a $550M US-backed railway project.

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Biden tours Angola railway project to boost Africa-West trade links

It was the final act of his last planned visit abroad as president of the United States. Joe Biden has announced in Angola – his first and last trip to the African continent as head of state – an investment of $600 million in the Lobito railway corridor, the star project with which Washington aspires to offer an alternative to China's enormous influence in Africa.A news story with which he said goodbye from the appearances on the international s…

Era el acto final de su última visita prevista al extranjero como presidente de Estados Unidos. Joe Biden ha anunciado en Angola ―su primer y último viaje al continente africano como jefe de Estado― una inversión de 600 millones de dólares en el corredor ferroviario de Lobito, el proyecto estrella con el que Washington aspira a ofrecer una alternativa a la enorme influencia de China en África. Una noticia con la que se despedía de las comparecen…

Biden promueve un proyecto ferroviario para rivalizar con China en África en su último viaje previsto al exterior

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Biden promotes a railway project to rival China in Africa on its last planned trip abroad

President Joe Biden on his visit to sub-Saharan Africa has pledged another $600 million for a cross-continent rail corridor project. Biden used the third and final day of his visit to Angola to showcase the Lobito Corridor railway.

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Biden says ‘Africa is the future’ as he pledges millions more on the last day of Angola visit

BIDEN TOURS LOBITO RAILWAY PROJECTS U.S. President Joe Biden Wednesday used part of the last day of his diplomatic visit to sub-Saharan Africa to tout the Lobito Corridor, a railway project backed by Washington that will link Angola’s port city of Lobito to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. Biden toured the railway project […] The post BIDEN TOURS LOBITO RAILWAY PROJECTS first appeared on The Zambian Observer.

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