The Trans-Kalahari Corridor comprises a tarred road linking the Port of Walvis Bay with Botswana and the industrial powerhouse of South Africa, Gauteng. The Corridor stretches over 1,900 km along Walvis Bay – Windhoek – Gaborone -Johannesburg/Pretoria.
It is supported by a railway line from the Port of Walvis Bay to Gobabis (via Windhoek), where transhipment facilities are available, and continues from Lobatse in Botswana. The Corridor is complemented by the Maputo (Mozambique) Corridor on the east coast of Africa, thus forming a transport corridor over the entire breadth of southern Africa. The corridor aims to simplify cross-border transactions and customs operations along the Corridor.
Government is therefore upgrading of railway network to double the volume of cargo transported between Walvis Bay and Kranzberg, Kranzberg and Oshikango, and Kranzberg and Windhoek. At present, government is rehabilitating the track between Kranzberg and Tsumeb.