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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: RVtitem on February 03, 2017, 11:14:45 PM
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DAR ES SALAAM Feb 3 (Reuters) - Tanzania signed a deal worth $1.215 billion with a consortium of Turkish and Portuguese companies on Friday to construct a 300-kilometre railway line, part of plans by the east African country to boost trade with its land-locked neighbours.
In total, Tanzania wants to build a 2,561 km standard gauge railway network connecting its main Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam to eastern and southern Africa's hinterland.
The port's vast hinterland loops in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
In a statement, state-run railway firm, Reli Assets Holding Company Ltd (RAHCO), said it had signed an agreement with a joint venture of Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi and Portugal's Mota-Engil Engenharia e Construção África, S.A.
The firm said construction of the railway line would start next month and take 30 months to be completed.
It did not give details on how the infrastructure project would be financed but last July Tanzania said it had secured a $7.6 billion loan from China's Export-Import Bank (Exim) to build part of the new railway network.
Tanzanian government officials said 40 foreign companies had initially expressed interest in the project, but only the Turkish-Portuguese consortium submitted a bid and was picked.
RAHCO said winners of bids for four other tenders for construction of additional standard gauge railway lines covering about 1,000 km would be announced in April.
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N1FO5TD
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It is interesting that Tanzania chose "competitive" split contracts for its rail project; unlike jubileee so-called government to government contract. I suppose this will spread risk while also pitting the contractors against each other to do a good job. The split contracts mean that there is a good chance that Magufuli will allocate a section of rail line to local contractors :)
It also looks like Tanzania is doing electric rail.
Magufuli at work!
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(http://www.railwaygazette.com/uploads/pics/tn_africa-dikkm-railway-map_01.jpg)
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Kenya will become the Tail Grabber in East Africa thanks to corruption. The Kenyan SGR was out-dated before construction. Who still builds a railway line for diesel locomotives in this day and age?
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In all fairness the project ws started by Raila but it was hazardly managed by Uhuru. Costs are waay out of control.