Trans-Kalahari Corridor

The Trans - Kalahari Highway ( German: Trans- Kalahari Highway ) is a planned by the SADC countries Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique and partially finished, across leading through the sand desert Kalahari trade and transport.

The design goes back to the expedition of James Chapman, already explored the route as a trade in 1850. The then existing as sand pad road was built late 20th century throughout their course as asphalt road and it started in 1998 as a connecting road between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund on the Atlantic Ocean and Maputo on the Indian Ocean are available. The Trans - Kalahari Highway is now mainly used by tourist private transport, as it shortens the distance from Windhoek to Johannesburg opposite of the usual southern route via Upington to about 400 kilometers.

Course

From the Atlantic coast, the Namibian National Road B2 forms the connection to the inland as far as Okahandja, where it joins the National Road B1. The route follows the south to the capital, Windhoek. From there, the National Road B6 branched further east. It leads up to the Botswana border crossing Buitepos. In Botswana, the track will be continued as A2. Nearly 150 kilometers across the border ends the route leading eastward and branches to the northeast and southeast; the way to South Africa and the east coast continues south and passes through small villages such as Kang and Sekoma before Jwaneng and Kanye are achieved. Behind Lobatse crosses the Highway border crossing to South Africa. The designated here as N4 National Road runs through Zeerust and Rustenburg before the South African capital Pretoria will be avoided. There the N4 highway is expanded like. Further east, the city of Mbombela is crossed, near Komatipoort is the border crossing into Mozambique. The continuing operations in Mozambique route is marked as EN4. After about 80 kilometers on the EN4 the track in the Mozambican capital Maputo extend to the coast of the Indian Ocean.