Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:11:18 +0000 …as CBU agrees to train Zambian railway engineers, artisans in Mpika By KALOBWE BWALYA THE Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) is an integral part of the Southern Africa Regional Rail Transport Network. It is a rail link of approximately 1,860 km long rising at sea level from the East African port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, to New Kapiri Mposhi in central Zambia, at 1,400m above sea level. The railroad is designed with a 1,067 mm gauge that permits through traffic operations with contiguous railway of Southern Africa, equipped with adequate facilities, and it has a designed capacity of 5 million tonnes of freight a year. The idea to connect Central and Southern African states to the Eastern coast through a rail link started as far back as 1947. Both Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) had for a long time wished to agriculturally […]
