Southern Africa
Cargo to and from Zambia
Four corridors compete for Zambian cargo, and the Copperbelt decides between them.
Zambia is landlocked and unusually well connected, which is a mixed blessing. Dar es Salaam reaches Lusaka in roughly 1,950 km through Nakonde and Tunduma. Beira and Nacala come up from the Mozambican coast. Durban and Walvis Bay serve it from the south and west. Four viable doors mean four sets of rates, congestion states and border conditions to weigh on every shipment.
The Copperbelt is usually what settles it. Mining inputs bound for Ndola, Kitwe and Chingola are heavy, time-sensitive and expensive to get wrong, and copper moving the other way has its own schedule. Britex works these lanes as bonded transit with the haulage attached, so the corridor choice and the paperwork are made by the same people.
At a glance
- Four
- corridors serving Zambia
- 1,950 km
- Dar es Salaam to Lusaka, approx.
- Nakonde
- principal border post
- Copperbelt
- principal cargo destination
How cargo reaches Zambia
Principal routing
- Dar es Salaam
- Nakonde and Tunduma border
- Lusaka
- Ndola and the Copperbelt
Via the Mozambican ports
- Beira or Nacala
- Chanida or Mchinji border
- Lusaka and the Copperbelt
We don’t publish transit times against a route. Distance and corridor are geography; what a specific container takes depends on the border, the season and the vessel. Ask us and we’ll commit to a timing against your actual shipment.
Destinations we deliver to
Border posts on these routes
What moves on this lane
The commodities that dominate Zambia’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.
Inbound to Zambia
- Mining reagents, sulphur and consumables
- Heavy machinery and plant
- Fuel and petroleum products
- Fertiliser and agricultural inputs
Outbound from Zambia
- Copper cathodes and concentrates
- Cobalt and other minerals
- Tobacco and agricultural produce
What we handle for Zambia
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 Southern Africa
Moving cargo to Zambia?
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.