Mpulungu port is situated on the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika in the Northern Province of Zambia. The port was built in 1930 before Zambia gained it’s independence. It operated as a fishing berth. Post-independence, the port was used mainly as an alternative storage facility for fuel imported through East Africa and supplied to the Northern part of Zambia. In 1977, the port started handling exports to the Great Lakes Region.
Mpulungu Port is accessed from the Zambian side by road and mainly services cargo traffic destined for Burundi, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the ports of Bujumbura, Kigoma and Kaleimie respectively