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Tanzania and Angola agree to link ocean corridors by rail

By Reuters News

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Tanzania and Angola have agreed to connect their Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean transport corridors with a railway link via Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.

  • The Benguela railway in Angola will join the Tanzania-Zambia Railway line to Tanzania's port of Dar es Salaam, linking the Lobito corridor on the Atlantic coast with the central corridor on the Indian Ocean coast.

  • Hassan gave no date for completion of the initiative in comments to reporters on Thursday

• In 2025, China signed a $1.4-billion pact with Zambia and Tanzania to modernise the TAZARA railway, which it had financed in the 1970s to facilitate copper exports and fuel imports

  • This week Italian construction firm Webuild WBD.MI said it had won a tender to build a section of the Zambia Lobito Railway Corridor

• TAZARA has been widely seen as a counterweight to the US and EU-backed Lobito Corridor, a route from Angola through Zambia to the DRC


• Angola has also invited Tanzania to invest in an oil refinery, with state energy firm Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation assessing the viability of a partnership in the Lobito oil refinery project, Hassan said

  • Tanzania has not said whether it will take up an equity stake in a refinery being built in Kenya by Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote. East African governments have been offered a 30% stake and Rwanda and Kenya have so far committed to buying shares. Tanzania and Uganda are discussing plans to jointly build another refinery in Tanzania's port of Tanga

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