ABSTRACT
Rhodesia, Zambia and Malawi are entirely landlocked states, dependent on their neighbours for trade outlets. By far the greater proportion of their trade passes across the border by rail into Mocambique, on its way to the two principal port outlets of Beira and Lourenco Marques. The main railway system of the Zambezi lands developed about the turn of the century. For the Zambezi lands Beira remains the chief exporting port, though not a very satisfactory one. Three-quarters of Beira’s trade passes to or from Rhodesia. Beira and Lourenço Marques are by far the most important cities in Mocambique. The southerly location of Lourenco Marques is a disadvantage for administration as a capital. But between them these two towns contain 60 per cent of all Europeans living in the territory, and both of them have a varied range of manufacturing industries.
