China To Build Tanzania High Speed Railway By 2018
The Chinese Government has
manifested its intention to start with the construction of a high speed railway
in Tanzania by the year 2018, when it is expecting to finish the second one of
its kind in Africa which is currently being developed in Kenya by China
Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC).
As explained in a press conference in Beijing
by Li Tie, Director General of the China Center for Urban Development (CCUD), a
Chinese Governmental institution which carry out foreign aid projects, the new
high speed railway in Tanzania would be part of the China’s One Belt One Road
initiative (OBOR) launched in 2013.
The initiative which started last
year with the construction of the second high speed railway in Kenya connecting
coastal city Mombasa with its capital Nairobi, joins the list of high speed
railways in Africa that started with the currently operating in Angola
inaugurated early this year.
Tanzania would therefore be the third country
developing high speed railways in Africa as part of the OBOR to promote trade
between the Sub-Saharan Region, Europe and Asia to strengthen partnerships
among the countries along the Belt and Road. OBOR consists of two main
components, the land-based “Silk Road Economic Belt” (SREB) and oceangoing
“Maritime Silk Road” (MSR). SREB is expected to boost trade between China,
Europe and Africa to over USD 2.5 trillion a year in a decade from now.
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