TAZARA Railway Upgrade

Objective

Over time, the rail has not been properly maintained due to lack of financing. Capacity has been reduced to a mere 2.5 million tons per year, a fraction of its designed 15 million...the upgrade will.result in a tripling of capacity permitting 7.5 million tons of copper to be transported annually, generating an estimated $1.2 billion in revenues for Zambia and Tanzania (Source: https://www.emergingreal.com/post/500-million-of-new-rail-to-connect-tazara-to-lake-tanganyika)

Description

The project was built from 1970 to 1975 as a turnkey project financed and supported by China. At its completion, the TAZARA was the longest railway in sub-Saharan Africa.[2] TAZARA was also the largest single foreign-aid project undertaken by China at the time, at a construction cost of US $406 million (the equivalent of US $3.06 billion today) (Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAZARA_Railway.). In 2022 Tanzania and Zambia agreed to upgrade the railway line