Adani Ports to operate CT2 at Dar es Salaam Port
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Progress on Great Lakes line
The governments of Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda have set up a joint venture to raise the US$3.5B needed to construct a new railway from the Great Lakes region to the port of Dar es Salaam
A feasibility study on the project has already been completed with funding from the African Development Bank. The line would connect with the existing Central Line, which runs from Lake Tanganyika to the port.
A total of US$2.63B would be required to construct a new line from the Central Line in Tanzania to Gitega in Burundi and Kigali in Rwanda. The remainder would be used to upgrade the Central Line itself.
Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete said: “We are ready to go into partnership with private companies that can raise the money for construction of the railway. We are ready to borrow, preferably from concessional sources.”
The three governments involved have not yet decided whether to form a joint venture to develop the line themselves, or to award a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract to a private sector company. An estimated 94% of cargo transported to Burundi and 57% transported to Rwanda passes through Dar es Salaam, but is currently carried by road.
Freight transported between Dar es Salaam and the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) could also make use of the line. Indeed, the Tanzanian and DR Congolese governments are in talks over extending the line further westwards into DR Congo itself.
However, the Tanzanian minister of transport, Omari Nundu, has revealed that an entirely different railway is also under consideration. It would run from Rwanda and Burundi parallel to the Central Line directly eastwards to Bagamoyo, to the north of Dar es Salaam.
This would cost US$2.47B, but would be dependent upon the construction of a brand new port at Bagamoyo, which would add further costs.
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