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of seven trans-shipments from rail to water or vice versa. 
The Belgians are now pushing a railroad from both ends to 
join Bukama (the Katanga terminus of the South African 
railway system) with the navigable portion of the Kasai 
River, the line to be extended to Kinshasa and the existing 
railway, so as to carry ores direct from the mines to the ocean 
steamers. The Benguella railroad will form the shortest 
line from Katanga to the coast. Its rail head at Silva Porto, 
Angola, is now connected with Katanga by a motor truck 
line covering 800 miles. A motor road also connects the 
head of navigation on the Itimbiri branch of the Congo with 
the Nile. Rapid mail and passenger service between Stan- 
ley Pool and Stanley Falls is assured by airplanes, and the 
colony is equipped with nineteen radio stations, which it has 
been found necessary, however, to replace by more powerful 
ones.