The Exim Bank of China has approved a loan of USD 7.6 billion to the Government of Tanzania for the upgrading of the country’s Central Railway Line. The central line is considered the most important railway in the country outside of the TAZARA network. The line runs west from Dar es Salaam to the country’s port at Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika via Dodoma and covers 1,254 kilometres. The loan will facilitate the construction of a 2,190 kilometre standard gauge line to replace the existing metric gauge.
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