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Chinese firms to build $2bn Tanzania rail

14th February 2025

By: Bloomberg

  

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Tanzania signed a $2.15-billion deal with two Chinese firms to construct a railway line linking its main port of Dar es Salaam to a nickel mine in neighbouring Burundi.

Tanzania Railways awarded the contracts to China Railway Engineering Group and China Railway Engineering Design and Consulting Group in Dar es Salaam.

“The signing of this contract is the coming into fruition of a bilateral agreement between the governments of Tanzania and Burundi,” Tanzania’s Transport Minister Makame Mbarawa said.

Mbarawa said the main purpose of the 282 km Uvinza-Musongati standard- gauge railway line is to facilitate the export of the critical mineral and open up cross-border trade between the two East African nations.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will finance construction through a concessional loan, according to Tanzania’s Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba. “This is a very significant moment because it marks the first foray of the AfDB in the financing of Tanzania’s railway projects,” he said.

Edited by Bloomberg

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