Tanzania Railways Corporation inaugurated freight service on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) between Dar es Salaam and Dodoma. • The SGR is part of a $6 billion strategy to turn Tanzania into East ...

Africa’s Great Migration sees millions of wildebeest and zebra thunder across the sun-bleached savannah, drawn by instinct to ...

The railway will span 282 km – from Uvinza to Musongati – and will comprise 240 km of the main line and 42 km of passing loops. The project will consist of two sections: the first from Uvinza ...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) on Monday announced the successful completion of trial runs for 264 Chinese-made cargo wagons for standard gauge railway ...

The first section of the SGR route, from Dar to Dodoma, opened in August 2024, cutting the journey time from 10 hours to just over three. We watched a man heave a large block of ice on to his ...

Tanzania’s Ministry of Finance is actively pursuing international debt capital markets to fund the construction of the 411km railway line from Tabora to Kigoma. Valued at $2.3bn, the SGR project aims ...

Tanzania is scrambling to stop vandalism of its new electric standard gauge railway (SGR) infrastructure after two incidents in recent weeks disrupted train services from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma. The ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan yesterday officially launched the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) electric train services, directing the Tanzania Railway Corporation to integrate it with other sectors ...

Makame Mbarawa, the minister for Transport, said the entire SGR project in Tanzania will cover 1,560 km from Dar es Salaam to the Mwanza Region, out of the entire 2,102-km railway that will be ...