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== Infrastructure ==
[[File:Ancien Bâtiment du barrage Mpozo à Matadi.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Former building of M'pozo dam in Matadi]]
[[File:Matadi train station (21236934082).jpg|thumb|right|Matadi train station, September 2015]]
The port of Matadi serves as a major import and export point for the whole nation. Chief exports are coffee and timber.  The state fishing company "[[Pemarza]]" uses the port to supply fish to Kinshasa. [[Tshimpi Airport]] is nearby.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}} 

[[Matadi Bridge]], a suspension bridge 722 m- long with a main span of 520 m, built in 1983, crosses the river just south of Matadi, carrying the main road linking Kinshasa to the coast. It is the only bridge over the main stem of the [[Congo River]]. After passing through Matadi and over the bridge, it continues to Boma, [[Muanda]] and Banana. Although built as a mixed rail and road bridge, no rail line is now operating over the bridge. Matadi is the port railhead for the 366&nbsp;km long [[Matadi-Kinshasa Railway]], constructed to bypass the rapids on the river upstream. A monument to the builders of the railway stands on a nearby hill.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}}

A power station on the [[M'pozo River]] supplies power to Matadi.{{Citation needed|date=December 2014}}