Moving bulk freight
by rail.
GoRail Freight Limited is a Zambian minerals handling and logistics provider. We own and operate the locomotives, wagons and sidings that carry bulk freight from source to customer across the Zambia Railways network.
A minerals handling and logistics provider. Plainly.
GoRail moves bulk minerals and general freight on the Zambia Railways network. We are not a broker and we do not hand the load to someone else — the locomotives, the wagons, the sidings and the people are ours.
Everything we do is set up to suit the customer's needs: the tonnage, the schedule, the specification, the delivery point. That is the whole job, and we do all of it.
From the mine to the market — under one operator.
Most freight changes hands three times before it reaches the customer. Ours doesn't. The same company that loads it at the mine puts it on rail and hands it over at the gate.
- 1The Source
At the mine
Freight loaded at origin sidings with quality tested at source — the spec is confirmed before a wagon moves.
- 2The Rail
On our line
Our own locomotives and wagons haul the consignment across the ZRL corridor — one operator, end to end.
- 3The Customer
At the gate
Offloaded, weighed and documented at destination. Delivered to the customer's requirement, not to a middleman.
This is what we put on the line.
Locomotives, wagons, loading machinery, workshops and the people who run them — the working weight behind every consignment GoRail moves in Zambia.
Tonnage in motion, every day of the week.
Loaded consists working the ZRL mainline between Senkobo, Batoka, Chandwe Musonda and Bwana Mkubwa.
Sixteen mainline locomotives.
A fleet of JNR DE10 mainline locomotives, shipped from Japan, collected at the port by our own team and rebuilt in our own workshop — port to corridor, bogie to cab.
Four sidings. One rail corridor.
Operational nodes along the Zambia Railways line — from Southern Province loading through our Lusaka workshop hub to Copperbelt offloading.
- Southern ProvinceSenkoboZimbabwe clearance sidingOur border-clearance point near Livingstone — cross-border freight from Zimbabwe is cleared here before joining the corridor north.↓ ≈ 239 km
- Southern ProvinceBatokaCoal loading sidingPrimary coal loading point. Southern Province coal is received, stockpiled and loaded onto rail here.↓ 226 km
- LusakaChandwe Musonda / NKMWorkshop & assembly hubThe engineering heart of the fleet — locomotive rebuild, maintenance and train marshalling on the Lusaka node.↓ 297 km
- CopperbeltBwana Mkubwa, NdolaCoal offloadingCopperbelt destination siding — wagons are offloaded, weighed and documented for delivery to the customer.
Zambia at the centre of it.
Our corridor runs Senkobo to Bwana Mkubwa. From it we connect south into Zimbabwe, north into the DRC and east to the Indian Ocean on TAZARA. Tap any point on the map.
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Work in progress.
Rebuilds on the workshop floor, loading at the sidings, wagons on the corridor — a working record of the job as it happens.
The work, as it happens.
Trusted by operators across the corridor.
Put your freight on the line.
Talk to our operations team about capacity, sidings and scheduling on the ZRL network.