Contributions for this section should be sent to the Editorial Office, with the following exceptions:
• Southern Africa – John Middleton, c/o Editorial Office.
Email: johnmiddleton3401@gmail.com
• South America – Lionel Price, 9, Liverpool Road West, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 1PE. Email: jldprice@btinternet.com
• Spain & Portugal – Joan Carles Salmerón, c/o Editorial Office. Email: cet@terminus.cat
Contributions which are primarily photographic in nature should all be sent to the Editorial Office to give the best choice of material for covers etc. Similarly historical articles and features should be sent to the Editor. The Editor’s contact details are inside the front cover.
AFRICA
MALAWI
Services in both Malawi and Mozambique are now being marketed under the brand “Nacala Logistics”. Nacala Logistics represents CDN, CLN / CLA, CEAR and VLL, companies whose shareholder is Vale, the Brazilian multinational mining company, which currently extracts coal in Moatize, Tete province. One result of this and a surplus of locomotives for the Moatize coal traffic has seen the massive Dash 9 General Electric BoBo-BoBoDE locomotives cleared for use on inter-modal traffic as far inland as Blantyre in Malawi where a new container depot has been built behind Limbe workshops. 16 bridges needed rebuilding to accommodate the 176 tonne bulk of the Dash 9s. The first such working was on 20th September and saw 1830 + 1850 + 1863 arrive amid much fanfare. It seems quite incongruous to see such huge US locomotives on a line where for many years the largest locomotives were
