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Normale Ansicht

Key Congo Copper-Export Route Cut Off After Bridge Collapses

02. März 2026 um 06:39
Flooding severed the Democratic Republic of Congo’s main copper-export corridor after a bridge collapsed just south of the Zambian border, disrupting shipments from the world’s second-largest producer of the metal.

Copper plates on wagons ready for onward shipping at the Mufulira refinery, operated by Mopani Copper Mines Plc, in Mufulira, Zambia, on Friday, May 6, 2022. A recent 1,900-mile journey from mines in Congo and Zambia shows how, a century after commercial mining began here, the world’s hunger for copper is again reshaping the region.
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