10 most impressive mega construction projects in Tanzania
‍Lake Tanganyika is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world by volume and depth; second
only to Lake Baikal in Siberia.
In fact, it is so large that it belongs to four different countries; Tanzania, Burundi,
Zambia, and Congo.
The lake is fed by at least 50 streams and rivers and is regarded as one of the world’s
most biologically rich and scientifically valuable habitats.
Lake Tanganyika holds an astounding 8 percent of the world’s freshwater, and is home 500
fish species; most of which stay within 20 metres of the surface.
Today we’ll be looking at the mega construction projects one of the owners of Lake Tanganyika,
Tanzania.
Tanzania is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean
to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda,
Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in northeastern Tanzania.
As of 2021, according to the IMF, Tanzania's gross domestic product (GDP) was an estimated
$71 billion (nominal), or $218.5 billion on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis.
GDP per capita (PPP) was $3,574.
From 2009 through 2013, Tanzania's per capita GDP grew an average of 3.5% per year, higher
than any other member of the East African Community (EAC) and exceeded by only nine
countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tanzania's largest trading partners in 2017 for its US$5.3 billion in exports were India,
Vietnam, South Africa, Switzerland, and China.
Its imports totalled US$8.17 billion, with India, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, China, and
the United Arab Emirates being the biggest partners.
Tanzania weathered the Great Recession, which began in late 2008 or early 2009, relatively
well.
Strong gold prices, bolstering the country's mining industry, and Tanzania's poor integration
into global markets helped to insulate the country from the downturn.
Since the recession ended, the Tanzanian economy has expanded rapidly thanks to strong tourism,
telecommunications, and banking sectors.
All of these gives us a clue as to why Tanzania will involve itself in large mega development
projects to further expand its economy.
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10.
Hoima - Tanga Crude Oil Pipeline Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed
the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project agreement with his Tanzanian counterpart Samia
Hassan Suluhu.
The agreement, signed in the Ugandan capital Kampala, paves the way for the construction
of a 1,440 km crude oil pipeline from Uganda's Albertine region to Tanzanian seaport of Tanga.
Extraction will take place at two oil fields: the Kingfisher field, which is operated by
China National Offshore Oil Corporation Ltd, and the Tilenga field, operated by Total S.A.
The $3.55 billion pipeline could be the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in
the world.
Once completed, more than 10,000 job opportunities will be created during execution.
Environmental activists say the project poses risks to protected environments, water sources
and wetlands in both the countries due to C02 emissions from the burning of oil through
the pipeline.
9.
Julius Nyerere Hydro power Project Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station is a hydroelectric
dam under construction across the Rufiji River in eastern Tanzania.
Although controversial, the government approved the plans in 2018.
The power station is expected to have an installed capacity of 2,115 megawatts (2,836,000 hp)
and to produce 5,920GWh of power annually.
The project, power station and dam are owned by and will be managed by the government owned
Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO).
Construction began in 2019 and is expected to be completed in 2022.
When completed, the dam will be fourth largest in Africa, the ninth largest in the world,
and the largest power station in East Africa.
The 134 metres (440 ft) arched, concrete dam is expected to create a reservoir lake, 100
kilometres (62 mi), in length, measuring 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi), with 34,000,000,000
cubic metres of water.
This power station is located in Selous Game Reserve, one of the world's largest World
Heritage sites, measuring 45,000 square kilometres (17,000 sq mi).
The power station and reservoir lake are planned to occupy approximately 1,350 square kilometres
(520 sq mi), within the game reserve.
8.
Mtwara Fertilizer Plant The fate of the planned $1.9 billion fertiliser
plant on the Mtwara coastline is still unclear as the government is yet to agree with potential
investors on the project’s commercial framework.
The project was supposed to start in 2016 through a joint venture of the Tanzania Petroleum
Development Corporation (TPDC) with several foreign companies - but they did not strike
a deal with the government on the commercial terms to be involved.
The Petroleum Upstream Regulatory Authority (Pura) which regulates the exploration, development
and production of natural gas and the liquefied natural gas (LNG) said at the weekend that
the fertiliser project is still on - but the negotiations on commercial terms have not
yet been concluded.
The issue is mainly on the price of natural gas which would be used as raw material for
manufacturing the fertiliser.
The project is one of the oil and gas-related projects which still waiting both the government
and investors decision to commence.
The national oil company Tanzania Petroleum Development Company (TPDC) has started paying
compensation to people who will leave the area identified for the construction of the
$30 billion project.
Negotiations between the investors and government commenced again in January this year.
7.
Rusumo Hydropower Project Despite criticism from environmentalists,
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has inaugurated a new hydroelectric power project in Selous
Game Reserve, a world heritage site.
The project is expected to provide an additional 2,100 megawatts of electricity, which will
more than triple Tanzania's installed hydropower capacity of 562 megawatts.
Currently only 10 percent of households in Tanzania have access to the national grid
for electricity, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Magufuli said the project will not affect the environment and will boost the economy
through industrialization.
The project will be contained to 3 percent of the Selous Game Reserve, a protected area
about the size of Switzerland.
Once completed, the dam will be owned by the Ministry of Tourism.
Ahmed Elsewedy, spokesman for Elsewedy Electric, an Egyptian company which has financial interests
in the project, said the company will open schools and help boost the economy.
Adding that the company plans to build factories, inrease trade, and open technical schools
to train employees.
But conservation organizations have been raising concerns about the dam's environmental impact
since plans were released in 2009.
The World Wildlife Fund says the project will endanger the livelihoods of some 200,000 people,
including farmers and fishermen living downstream from the proposed dam.
According to the WWF, the Selous Game Reserve is one of Africa's largest remaining wildnerness
areas, and is home to elephants, black rhinos and wild hunting dogs.
6.
Phase 2 of DART Project Tanzania is set to commence construction of
phase two of the Dar es Salaam Bus Rapid Transit (DART) in June this year.
The DART administration confirmed the reports and said that 88.9% of the project would be
financed by the Africa Development Bank (ADB) while 11.1% of the project would be financed
by the Tanzanian government.
The DART project is 49% owned by the government and 51% owned by Simon Group Limited.
The Usafiri salama Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit (UDA-RT) operates the system with Surface
and Marine Transport Regularity Authority (SUMATRA) overseeing them.
Phase one of the DART begun in 2012 and was completed by 2015.
The transit goes for 21.1km with 29 stations and a dedicated bus lanes.
The project cost US $180m and was funded by the Africa Development Bank, the World Bank
and the Government of Tanzania.
Phase two of the 20.3km DART project starts at Gerezani and City Council BRT station.
This involves Kilwa Road, Chang’ombe Road, Kawawa Road, Gerezani Street, Bandari Road,
and Sokoine Drive.
The project will be built with infrastructures such as 29 bus stations, one bus depot at
Mbagala-Rangitatu and two bus terminals at Mbagala-Rangitatu and Kariakoo-Gerezani.
Two fly-overs at VETA and Uhasibu will be constructed, Uhasibu and Non-Motorized Transport
facilities and five feeder stations at Dar es Salaam University College of Education
(DUCE), Mtoni Kwa Azizi Ali, Mbagala-Rangitatu, , Zakhiem and Misheni.
The DART Stakeholders have proposed mitigation measures to tackle matters that will arise
during construction period such as relocation of commuter bus stand and removing of petty
traders at Gerezani Kariakoo and Mbagala-Rangitatu respectively.
5.
New international airport in Dodoma The project is part of programme to expand
the East African nation’s infrastructure.
It will be built in Msalato, 12 km from Dodoma.
It will include a passenger terminal, runway and related infrastructure.
The new airport project which will take approximately four years for construction, will have a capacity
to handle 1 million passengers annually and will have a runway of just over 2km in length.
Project funding The funding package comprises a US $198.6m loan from the AfDB, US $23.52m
from the African Development Fund, and US $50m in co-financing from China’s Africa
Growing Together Fund, which the AfDB manages.
4.
New Likong’o-Mchinga Liquefied Natural Gas plant US $30bn
Tanzania expects a consortium of international oil companies to start building a long-delayed
liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in 2022 and will be compleyed in 2028.
Construction of an LNG export terminal near huge offshore natural gas discoveries in deep
water south of the East African country has been held up for years by regulatory delays.
The government said in March it planned to conclude talks in September with a group of
foreign oil and gas companies led by Norway’s Equinor on developing the LNG terminal.
The country’s central bank believes just starting work on the $30 billion plant would
add another two percentage points to annual economic growth of around 7%.
The project will have capacity to produce 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquefied
natural gas.
The international oil companies (IOCs) will develop the project in partnership with the
state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC).
The plant would be located on approximately 2,071.705 hectares in Likong'o Village in
the town of Lindi on the Indian Ocean coast, approximately 460 kilometres (286 mi), by
road, south of Dar es Salaam. 3.
Expansion of the Dar es salaam Port The Government is implementing a project to
expand 7 berths depth from the current 8 meters to 15 meters.
The expansion will allow the Port to receive larger vessels able to carry up to 19,000
containers.
The project will enable the Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) to increase the container
through output to 28 million tons a year from around 20 million containers currently.
The port will be able to handle ships with more than 304 meters from the current 204
meters.
2.
Tanzania SGR project Tanzania will become the third country in
East Africa to start enjoying modern railway services after Kenya and Ethiopia.
Kenya was the first country in the region to start the construction of an SGR line,
completing over 500km between Mombasa and Nairobi, and also inaugurating its passenger
services in June 2017.
The Government is constructing a new electric railway line using domestic resources from
Dar es salaam – Morogoro – Dodoma about 700 Km.
The whole projects cover a distance of about 2,707 Km, with three branches from Dar es
salaam – Tabora-Kigoma (1,251 kms); Tabora – Mwanza (379 kms) and Kaliua – Mpanda
(210 kms).
The project is expected to improve transportation of cargo and passengers in the central corridor.
It is expected to reduce time and freight for cargo destined to neighbouring countries
like Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC. 1.
Bagamoyo Port US $11bn Through a collaboration between Tanzania,
China and Oman, the ambitious Bagamoyo port is now being developed in Tanzania, along
with 190 industries built throughout a 1,700-hectare special economic zone adjacent to the port.
At a cost of US $11bn, this mega infrastructure project is designed to become Africa’s largest
port.The port should be able to handle 20 million containers annually once it’s fully
completed by 2045.
The project will position Tanzania into a regional economic powerhouse.
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