BY DIRAMAKINI
THE Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a railway system, under construction, linking the country to the neighbouring countries of Rwanda and Uganda, and through these two, to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as part of East African Railway Master Plan.
The new Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), is intended to replace the old, inefficient metre-gauge railway system.
Dar es Salaam to Morogoro Section
This section, measuring 300 kilometres (186 mi), was contracted to a 50/50 consortium comprising Yapi Merkezi of Turkey and Mota-Engil of Portugal.
Construction began in April 2017 and Yapi Merkezi have been showing the progress of construction with monthly video reports on YouTube.
Partial funding for this section, amounting to US$1.2 billion, was borrowed from the Export Credit Bank of Turkey. Phase 1 was 42% complete February 2019, 82% complete in June 2020, and 95% complete December 2021.
With infrastructure complete electrical test, and live train trials began in late April, 2022. There will be six stations: Dar es Salaam, Pugu, Soga, Ruvu, Ngerengere and Morogoro. Three trains will make daily round trips.
Here are key benefits of the SGR to the Tanzania economy:
1.) Job creation. ...
2.) Increased industrialisation. ...
3.) Reduced cost of doing business. ...
4.) Urbanisation along its route. ...
5.) Improved tourism opportunities. ...
6.) Improved regional trade. ...
7.) Reduction of road maintenance cost
3.) Reduced cost of doing business. ...
4.) Urbanisation along its route. ...
5.) Improved tourism opportunities. ...
6.) Improved regional trade. ...
7.) Reduction of road maintenance cost