“We’re at present engaged in lively negotiations with the China Civil Engineering Building Corp.,” the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority mentioned in an emailed assertion Tuesday.
The road could play an important function within the power transition, as copper and cobalt mine operators in Zambia and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo search routes to get their rising manufacturing to ports. Trucking already faces logjams and journeys that take weeks. The Tanzania-Zambia Railway will compete with a US-backed rail line often known as the Lobito hall that runs westward to an Angolan port.
The rehabilitation of infrastructure and rolling inventory will take about two years, Tazara mentioned. The concession interval will likely be so long as 30 years, and annual tonnage on the road carries will quadruple to about 2 million tons, it mentioned.
(By Matthew Hill and Taonga Mitimingi)