of Zambia's copper exports but is currently closed). The Ndola railhead
was responsible for the town becoming the country's centre of distribution.
Before the road network was built up in the 1930s, a track from Ndola to
Kapalala on the Luapula River, and boat transport from there to the Chambeshi
River was the principal trade route for the Northern Province, which
consequently formed part of Ndola's hinterland
