06.09.2024
Artikel Nummer: 50663
China promises financial injection for Tazara
China, Tanzania and Zambia have signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway. The modernisation of the 1,860 km long line of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (Tazara) will improve rail-sea transport in resource-rich East Africa, the Chinese state-owned information office SCIO said.
The single-track railway was built between 1970 and 1975, offering a cargo transport route from Zambia's copper and cobalt mines to the sea on Tanzania's coast that bypasses South Africa and the former state of Rhodesia.
Earlier this year, the World Bank approved USD 270 million in financing to help improve connectivity between the neighbours Tanzania and Zambia. (ben)