Zambia plans to construct a brand new rail connection to hyperlink a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an current line that runs to neighboring Tanzania, boosting commerce with three different nations that share borders with the world’s longest freshwater lake.
The southern African nation’s Transport and Logistics Ministry requested corporations to precise curiosity in financing, constructing and operating the concession that can be about 192 kilometers (119 miles) lengthy. The tracks will hook up with the Tanzania Zambia Railway, or Tazara, at Nseluka in northern Zambia and run to Mpulungu harbor on Tanganyika, the ministry mentioned in a press release revealed Thursday within the state-owned Occasions of Zambia.
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