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from southern Malawi and from the Sena-Nhamayabué region, in addition to the sugar production by the company Sena Sugar
Estates. The permission for the construction of the north-lakes stretch, beyond Blantyre, was later transferred to the company Central African Railways.
335:. The rest of the railway on the Mozambican side, between Nhamayabué and Vila Nova de Fronteira, was slowly completed until 1930. In 1930, therefore, the railway already connected Beira, Nhamayabué, Vila Nova de Fronteira, Nsanje, Chiromo and Blantyre, mainly transporting
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303:. The irregular river flow in the region — sometimes with large and destructive floods, sometimes with severe droughts — made safe navigation almost impossible, causing this option to be discarded and the continuation of a railway line to
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