The joint venture formed by Turkey’s leading Yapi Merkezi and Mota-Engil from Portugal is starting to build East Africa’s first high-speed railway as the consortium won the railway project Dar es Salaam-Morogoro to be built in Tanzania. The project, which is of great importance in terms of being in the port city of Dar es Salaam, will greatly contribute to Tanzania’s trade and tourism, while also connecting Uganda and Congo to the Indian Ocean. The deal signed is USD 1.215 billion.
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.
There is a 207 km single line between Dar Es Salaam and Morogoro that will be constructed at a design speed of 160 km/h, all the design works of the railway, infrastructure construction works, rail laying, signaling, communication systems, spare part design, electrification and personnel training.
The 1224 km long high-capacity railway investment between Dar Es Salaam and Mwanza, planned by the Tanzanian State, was divided into 5 stages and then tendered. The Dar es Salaam -Morogoro section, which the Yapi Merkezi /Mota-Engil consortium has received, is the most critical part of the planned line. The project, which is crucial for Dar es Salaam port city, will not only make a great contribution to the trade and tourism of Tanzania, but will also allow countries like Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to export rich underground resources.
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