East Africa
Cargo to and from D.R. Congo
Two different countries logistically: the east off the Northern Corridor, the south off Dar es Salaam.
The DRC is not one destination. Cargo for Goma, Bukavu, Beni and Butembo comes off the Northern Corridor through Mombasa and Kampala and crosses at Kasindi or through Rwanda, roughly 2,000 km from the port. Cargo for Lubumbashi and the Katanga mining belt does not use this lane at all: it runs from Dar es Salaam down to Kasumbalesa, or up from the southern ports.
Which half of the country a consignment is going to therefore decides the port, the corridor and the paperwork before anything else does. It is worth settling the destination city first, because the two lanes share almost nothing but the container.
At a glance
- Mombasa
- gateway port, eastern DRC
- 2,000 km
- Mombasa to Goma, approx.
- Northern
- corridor
- Kasindi
- principal eastern border post
How cargo reaches D.R. Congo
Principal routing
- Port of Mombasa
- Malaba border
- Kampala
- Kasindi border
- Goma and Beni
Katanga, via the Central Corridor
- Dar es Salaam
- Tunduma border
- Kasumbalesa border
- Lubumbashi
The eastern and southern lanes are quoted separately. Tell us the destination city and we will price the corridor that actually serves it.
Destinations we deliver to
Border posts on these routes
What moves on this lane
The commodities that dominate D.R. Congo’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.
Inbound to D.R. Congo
- Fuel and lubricants
- Construction materials and steel
- Mining and industrial equipment
- Consumer goods and retail stock
- Relief and humanitarian cargo
Outbound from D.R. Congo
- Coffee
- Timber and forest products
- Agricultural produce
What we handle for D.R. Congo
Britex has presence and yards across the thirteen countries we cover. The same six services apply on this lane as on every other.
Also in East Africa
Moving cargo to D.R. Congo?
Tell us the destination and what’s in the box, and we’ll come back with the routing and what it takes to get there.