Tanzania: China Injects U.S.$40 Million in Tazara Railway

Dar es Salaam — China has granted a soft loan of US$39.9 m for strengthening the Tanzania and Zambia Railways Authority (TAZARA) whose performance has drastically gone down.

The loan would be spent on 11 areas including purchase of six new locomotive engines, rehabilitation of nine more and purchase of 90 new cargo carriages and rehabilitation of four cranes and two rescue cranes.

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