Editing Mozambique (section)

===Transport===
{{Main|Transport in Mozambique|Rail transport in Mozambique}}
[[File:Steam locomotive Inhambane.jpg|thumb|Steam locomotive at Inhambane, 2009]]
[[File:LAM Boeing 737-200Adv C9-BAK JNB 2005-12-2.png|thumb|right|The national Mozambican airline, [[LAM Mozambique Airlines|LAM Mozambique]]]]

There are over {{cvt|30,000|km}} of roads, but much of the network is unpaved. Like its [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] neighbours, [[Left- and right-hand traffic|traffic circulates on the left]], in spite of having not been colonised by the British. There is an international airport at Maputo, 21 other paved airports, and over 100 airstrips with unpaved runways. There are 3,750&nbsp;km of [[Navigability|navigable]] inland waterways. There are rail links serving principal cities and connecting the country with Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. 

The Mozambican railway system developed over more than a century from three different ports on the coast that served as terminals for separate lines to the hinterland. The railroads were major targets during the Mozambican Civil War, were sabotaged by RENAMO, and are being rehabilitated. A [[State-owned enterprise|parastatal]] authority, ''Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique'' (Mozambique Ports and Railways), oversees the railway system and its connected ports, but management has been largely outsourced. Each line has its own development corridor.

{{As of|2005}} there were 3,123&nbsp;km of railway track, consisting of 2,983&nbsp;km of {{RailGauge|1067mm|lk=on}} gauge, compatible with neighbouring rail systems, and a 140&nbsp;km line of {{RailGauge|762mm|lk=on}} gauge, the [[Gaza Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mozambique/|title=The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency|website=cia.gov|access-date=16 May 2007|archive-date=10 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110035001/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mozambique|url-status=live}}</ref> The central [[Beira–Bulawayo railway]] and [[Sena railway]] route links the [[port of Beira]] to the landlocked countries of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. To the north of this the [[port of Nacala]] is also linked by [[Nacala railway|Nacala rail]] to Malawi, and to the south the [[port of Maputo]] is connected by the [[Limpopo railway|Limpopo rail]], the [[Goba railway|Goba rail]] and the [[Pretoria–Maputo railway|Ressano Garcia rail]] to Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa. These networks interconnect only via neighbouring countries. A new route for coal haulage between Tete and Beira was planned to come into service by 2010,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200807010992.html|title=Mozambique: Australian Company Plans New Coal Mine in Tete By 2010|publisher=Allafrica.com|access-date=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005073546/http://allafrica.com/stories/200807010992.html|archive-date=5 October 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> and in August 2010, Mozambique and [[Botswana]] signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a 1,100&nbsp;km railway through Zimbabwe, to carry coal from [[Serule]] in Botswana to a deepwater port at [[Techobanine]] Point.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/pointers-september-2010.html|access-date=10 September 2010|title=Railway Gazette: Pointers September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908094452/http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/pointers-september-2010.html|archive-date=8 September 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> Newer rolling stock has been supplied by the Indian [[Golden Rock Railway Workshop|Golden Rock]] workshop<ref>''[[Railway Gazette International]]'', August 2008, p.483</ref> using [[Janney coupler|Centre Buffer Couplers]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/06/23/stories/2008062350501700.htm|title=Golden Rock workshop exports locos to Mozambique|work=Business Line|access-date=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206072435/http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/06/23/stories/2008062350501700.htm|archive-date=6 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Railway air brake|air brakes]].