This is a best prospect industry sector for this country. Includes a market overview and trade data.
Last Published: 7/24/2019

Overview

Zimbabwe’s infrastructure needs rehabilitation.  The government is in the process of reconstructing the road network.  The 2019 Cyclone Idai caused significant infrastructural damage in the areas around Chimanimani and Chipinge.  While the government has rehabilitated the main east-west highway with funding from the Development Bank of Southern Africa, there is an urgent need to rehabilitate the busy Beitbridge to Chirundu highway as it is the main trade route linking the southern ports of South Africa to Zimbabwe and other Southern African Development Community (SADC) states.

Leading Sub-Sectors

The transport sub-sectors of road and rail continue to be constrained by capitalization challenges.  Prospects exist in upgrading the roads and rail networks in order to improve the movement of goods to the markets.

Opportunities

Opportunities exist for American companies to provide road and rail construction machinery and equipment in the form of either outright selling to local construction companies or renting out and leasing to construction companies.  Opportunities also exist for American companies to sell rolling stock to the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ).

Web Resources

Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe
256 Samora Machel Ave
Harare, Zimbabwe.
infor@cifozzim.co.zw 
Telephone: +263 24 2746937

Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) House
STAND No. 489 
Runville,
Glenroy Shopping Centre,
Highlands, Harare, 
Zimbabwe
Tel:+263 24 2442711-3
www.zinara.co.zw

National Railways of Zimbabwe
NRZ Parkade Centre, Corner 9th Avenue and Fife Street,
Box 603,
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Telephone: +263 29 2363595
www.nrz.co.zw
 

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Zimbabwe Design and Construction Trade Development and Promotion