Copperbelt Rail Revitalisation
Transport & Mining
Zambia, DRC
Rail Concessionaire & Mining Consortium
R9.4bn
2020 to 2024
Decades of underinvestment had left the region's principal copper export corridor operating at a fraction of design capacity, forcing costly road haulage. TBH Holdings structured a rehabilitation and capacity expansion programme co-funded by the rail concessionaire and a consortium of mining offtakers.
The structure tied capital contributions to guaranteed haulage volumes, aligning the incentives of infrastructure investors and the mining companies who would become the corridor's anchor users.
The corridor reached full rehabilitated capacity in 2024, cutting logistics costs for anchor offtakers and materially reducing heavy-vehicle traffic on parallel road networks.
Shared-use provisions negotiated into the concession now allow smaller mining operators to access the corridor on regulated tariff terms, extending the benefit beyond the founding consortium.