DR Congo: Chinese company revives pipeline plan

Hydrocarbons minister Aimé Ngoy Mukena held talks on 30 November with Zhenghwei Technique Corporation managing director Tu Da Jun on a project for a new ministry building in Kinshasa and a proposed 100km products pipeline from the Zambian border to Lubumbashi.The Lubumbashi-Kasumbalesa pipeline would aim to cut transport costs by two thirds compared to tanker trucks, and to link up with other pipeline projects.