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Primary corridor documents — financing agreements, appraisals, environmental studies, policy papers — each read once and distilled into a structured tearsheet. Compare them side by side below, then open any one for the full extraction.

Document	Financing	Key parties	Location	Sectors
AFC signs concession agreements for the Zambia–Lobito rail project Appraisal · Africa Finance Corporation	US$2 million USTDA grant funding	Africa Finance Corporation, Government of Angola, Government of Zambia, United States Government…	Angola and Zambia (Benguela rail line in Luacano, Angola to Chingola, Zambia)	railminingagricultureenergy
DFC signs $553m loan agreement for the Lobito Atlantic Railway Financial · U.S. DFC	$553m DFC direct loan	U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR), Trafigura…	Angola (Lobito port to Luau border region); serving Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia	critical mineralsinfrastructurerail transportport operations

Policy

EU Global Gateway — the Lobito Corridor programme

Tearsheet pending.

Appraisal

AFC signs concession agreements for the Zambia–Lobito rail project

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) signed concession agreements with the governments of Angola and Zambia on 25 September 2024 for the financing, construction, ownership and operation of the Zambia Lobito Rail Project. The project involves construction of approximately 800km of greenfield rail connecting the Benguela rail line in Luacano, Angola to the Zambia Railways Line in Chingola, Zambia. AFC also received US$2 million in grant funding from the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) for environmental and social studies. The completed corridor is expected to generate approximately $3 billion in economic benefit, reduce emissions by 300,000 tons per year, and create over 1,250 jobs.

Financial

DFC signs $553m loan agreement for the Lobito Atlantic Railway

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) signed a $553 million loan agreement for the Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) in Angola on December 17, 2025. The financing, provided alongside the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), will support rehabilitation and operation of a brownfield mineral port in Lobito and approximately 1,300 kilometers of rail line connecting Lobito port to Luau on the Angolan border. The investment is expected to increase Lobito's transportation capacity to 4.6 million metric tons and reduce critical mineral transportation costs by up to 30 percent, while facilitating regional trade and access to mineral-rich regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.