Transcaprivi Highway

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The TransCaprivi Highway opened in 1999 runs from Rundu, in north eastern Namibia, along the Caprivi Strip to Katima Mulilo on the Zambezi River which forms the border between Namibia and Zambia. The Katima Mulilo Bridge spans the river to the Zambian town of Sesheke from where a road runs to Livingstone and on to Lusaka and the Copperbelt.

The TransCaprivi Highway is a section of the Walvis Bay Corridor, a trade route linking land-locked Zambia (and neighbouring countries such as DR Congo, Malawi and Zimbabwe) to the Walvis Bay port on the Atlantic Ocean. An example of the function of the corridor as a trade route is that trucks carry copper ore concentrate from the Dikulushi mine in South-East DR Congo across Zambia and down the TransCaprivi Highway to the copper smelter at Tsumeb in Namibia. The refined copper is then exported from Namibian ports.