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China sends 140 experts to investigate the Tazara Railway in Zambia

Commitment Year•2014Country of Activity•ZambiaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•ZambiaSector•Transport And StorageFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2014

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Zambia

Loan desecription

China sends 140 experts to investigate the Tazara Railway in Zambia

Narrative

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Project narrative

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.