DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) has signed a contract with Chinese state-run CRRC International Co., Ltd. (CRRC) to procure 1,430 wagons that will be deployed on the standard gauge railway (SGR) line.
The contract, worth 127.26 million U.S. dollars, was signed Tuesday by TRC director-general Masanja Kadogosa and CRRC International assistant general manager Tang Yunpeng in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of Tanzania, said a statement issued by TRC.
Kadogosa said in the statement that the 12-month contract will include the design, production and delivery of the 1,430 wagons for transporting various types of cargo.
The wagons will be delivered to Dar es Salaam by early February 2023 after completion of the second lot construction of the 422 km Morogoro-Makutopora stretch that will be joined with the 341 km Dar es Salaam-Morogoro section whose construction has reached 95 percent.
For his part, Tang said CRRC International was confident to deliver the best wagons for the SGR project within the agreed period.
Tanzania is currently constructing a 1,637 km SGR line from the major port of Dar es Salaam to Mwanza in northern Tanzania, which will be connected to landlocked countries of Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to facilitate transportation of cargo to these landlocked countries. ■
