Project ID: 40912

China sends 140 experts to investigate the Tazara Railway in Zambia

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Zambia

Sector

Transport and storage (Code: 210)

Flow type

Free-standing technical assistance

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2014-01-01

Description

In 2014, a team of 140 Chinese experts was conducting a close investigation to establish the problems that are afflicting Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority in order to improve the railway line and its running authority. These inspections have come because Tanzania and Zambia have agreed to decentralize and transform the Tazara operations by making it operate 'commercially and profitably.' The Minister for Transport, Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe, told a press conference in Dar es Salaam that under the new modality, each country could run its business, saying the new modality allows a partner state to run trains without consulting another. The governments of Tanzania, Zambia, and China built the railway. It provided the only route for bulk trade from Zambia's Copperbelt to reach the sea without having to transit white-ruled territories. The commitment date for this project is unknown.

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

1

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Zambia [Government Agency]