Friday, June 15, 2007

Zambia to revoke railway firm's concession

(Reuters) - Zambia plans to revoke a 20-year concession awarded to the company which operates the national railways network, a key transport route for its vast copper and cobalt mines, President Levy Mwanawasa said on Friday.

Railway Systems of Zambia (RSZ), a subsidiary of New Limpopo Bridge Investments (NLBI), will lose the concession to provide freight service -- one of the country's major privatizations -- because of its poor management, said Mwanawasa.


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