Tanzania SGR begins testing

The new president of Tanzania has announced that her government will seek to restart the stalled project to build a new port at Bagamoyo. Samia Suluhu Hassan, who became the country’s first female president after the previous incumbent, John Magufuli, died in March, has sought to revive several big infrastructure projects.

The Government of Tanzania has announced that 39 new locomotives and 800 freight wagons will be acquired for the redeveloped Central Line linking the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika and Dar es Salaam, via the nation’s capital Dodoma.

Tanzania’s largest port, Dar es Salaam, is to open a ro-ro terminal that will be capable of handling 600,000 vehicles a year. The new facility, which will have the capacity to store 3,000 vehicles at any one time, is scheduled to open in September this year.

The Tanzanian Government has secured US$1.46B in funding from Standard Chartered, the UK-based banking group. The money will be used to support the construction of the second stretch (426 km) of the country’s high-speed standard gauge rail (SGR) network. This stage will connect Morogoro and Makutupora in the country’s Dodoma region.

Work has begun on building a second berth at the Port of Mtwara, as the Tanzanian government seeks to expand the country’s most southerly
port.

After years of criticism of its operations, Tanzania International Container Terminal Services’ (TICTS) concession to operate Dar es Salaam container terminal has been extended by five years, pending a performance review. Meanwhile, the government of Kenya is to launch a new tender for the contract to operate the new container terminal at Mombasa