10 Most Impressive Projects In Tanzania
In recent years,
Tanzania has turned out to be one of the major construction hubs in Africa;
with the construction of roads, railway lines,
dams, power plants, and airports underway in different parts of the country
The construction industry in Tanzania
has experienced strong growth in the past five years.
The contribution of the construction industry
to the country's GDP has grown from 7.8% in 2015 to 13.6% in 2020.
According to Tanzania's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS),
the growth of the construction industry is largely
attributed to Tanzania's government efforts into developing the country's infrastructure
The development of infrastructure in the country aims at nurturing industrialization for economic
transformation and human development
as well as attracting further investment and trading opportunities
Without further ado, here are the 10 most impressive Megaprojects in Tanzania.
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10} MSALATO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Construction is underway as Tanzania plans to build an international airport
in her new capital "Dodoma"
A new international airport project
is part of a program to expand
the country's infrastructure
it will be built in Msalato ward
14 kilometers (9 miles) from
the city's Central Business District
The project involves the construction of a passenger terminal,
runway, and other related infrastructure: and it will take approximately four years to construct.
The airport has the capacity to handle over 1.5 million passengers per annum
The Africa Development Bank is funding 87% of the total cost of the project
while the Tanzanian government is funding 13% of the total cost
Upon completion, the project will support the government's current priority to relocate
administrative functions from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma
and in so doing, meet the anticipated
increase in connectivity and access needs in Tanzania's new capital city.
China's Sino Hydro Corporation Limited, M/s Beijing Sino Aero Construction Engineering Company Limited,
and M/S China Jiangxi International Economic and Technical Cooperation Limited
are the main contractors of the project
9} DODOMA CITY OUTER DUAL CARRIAGE HIGHWAY PROJECT.
The Dodoma city outer dual carriageway ring road project comprises the construction of
the road to bitumen standard,
construction of embankment drainage structures involving;
bridges, box culverts, pipe culverts, as well as pavement layers and ancillary works.
its main objective is to respond to the need for improved logistics services to cope with the
expected population boom and expansion of economic activities in the political capital of Dodoma
it is also expected to provide efficient road transport access to the rest of the country at large
and boost regional integration for the East and Southern Africa regions
for it lies at the
crossroads of two major continental road corridors;
the central corridor which connects the port city
of Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, and Uganda
As well as the Trans-African highway
which starts in Cape Town South Africa,
and ends in Cairo Egypt.
The project is being financed by the
Tanzanian government and the Africa Development Bank
while China's Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC)
and Avic Project Engineering Company handle the construction works,
under the supervision of the Tanzania National Roads Agency (Tanroads)
Upon completion, the 110 kilometers
(68 miles): Dodoma outer ring road will be one of the longest ring roads in Africa.
8} DAR ES SALAAM MARITIME GATEWAY PROJECT
The government of Tanzania is implementing a project
to expand
seven birth 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 enables the Tanzania Port Authority
(TPA)
to increase the container through output to 28 million tons a year
from around 20 million containers currently
The extension of a nine-hectare yard birth zero roll yard
with the capacity to accommodate up to 6,000 vehicles has already been complete
The upgrade of the port
by the China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) is expected to boost the port's handling capacity
of cargo from across the world, allowing large vessels from across the world to dock in the Dar Es Salaam port.
Dar es salaam is an essential port for Tanzania, and neighboring countries such as Malawi,
Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC
The finalization of the project will significantly help to boost
trading and other economic activities in the region
The project comes at an estimated cost
of 430 million US$,
The World bank finances over 80% of the total cost of the project.
7} DAR ES SALAAM BRT
In May 2016, Tanzania inaugurated the first phase of the Dar es salaam BRT project
The Dar es Salaam Bus Rapid Transit
is a Bus Rapid Transit System that operates in Tanzania's financial capital.
Dar es Salaam, the largest city in East Africa, and one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
Due to its rapid growing population, the city struggles to maintain a convenient means of transport
construction of the first phase was complete in 2016 at a total cost of 381 million US$
funded by the African Development Bank, and the government of Tanzania.
The project covers over 90% of the city's population
due to cost of the investment the project is split into six phases
Phase two of the project involves the construction of infrastructure that includes;
20.3 kilometers (12.6 miles) of exclusive BRT lanes, and non-motorized transport NMT facilities
along Kilwa road corridor, and part of Kawawa road
The project corridor traverses from Mbagala area in Temeke district
to the city center where it connects with phase one of the brt system
at the Kariako ward
The project also includes the construction of a couple of flyovers
and interchanges
as well as the revamping of the current existing roads along the BRT
The Africa Development Bank are the main financers of phase two of the project
while the World Bank finances phase three of the project
some of the benefits of the project are; enhanced and improved traffic circulation
and elimination of bottlenecks to traffic flow to various economic activities, in centers such as
the industrial zones, and the vast populous residential areas of Temeke municipality
The project would therefore impact positively on the informal and formal businesses by
providing them with improved accessibility and enhanced roadside air quality
the total cost of the project is over 1.2 Billion US$.
6} MTWARA MEGA FERTILIZER PLANT
Tanzania plans to construct a 1.9 billion US$ fertilizer plant in Mtwara, southern Tanzania.
Local authorities have already begun the first process of upgrading infrastructure at the Mtwara site
and owners of the 989 acres of land which will be used for the construction of the plant
have been compensated
the plant will use natural gas as their main raw material to produce
about 3,900 tons of urea,
and 2,200 tons of ammonia
while natural gas will be harvested from Mtwara,
and other southern regions
Ferrostaal Industrial Projects of German, Haldor Topsoe AS of Denmark, and Fauji Fertiliser Company Ltd of Pakistan
together with the state-owned Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation
(TPDC) will jointly own the fertilizer plant
While other companies such as
Dangote group through their company's CEO, MR. Aliko Dangote have also shown interest
into investing in the project
the plant will provide over 5000 direct and indirect jobs,
boost the national economy with the agricultural sector benefiting the most,
and will position Tanzania as
East and Central Africa's fertilizer distribution Hub
providing a sustainable supply chain platform
to ensure product availability at all times
5} UGANDA – TANZANIA CRUDE OIL PIPELINE
Uganda-Tanzania crude oil pipeline also known as the East African Crude Oil pipeline (EACOP)
or the Hoima-Tanga port oil pipeline
is a proposed oil pipeline in East Africa which once completed,
the pipeline will be the longest heated crude oil pipeline in the world
The oil pipeline would
start in Bisaruka Hoima district in Uganda's western region
. It would travel in a general south-easterly direction to pass through Masaka in Uganda,
Bukoba in Tanzania, loop around the southern
shores of Lake Victoria, continue through Shinyanga and Singida town
and end at the port of Tanga in Tanzania
for export from the Indian ocean
over 80% of the pipeline would run through Tanzania.
The 1,444 kilometers planned pipeline is expected to be built at a budgeted cost of 3.5 billion US$
30% of the project costs are expected to be provided by the equity investors in the project
with the remaining 2.5 Billion US$ to be provided via project finance loans
Uganda and Tanzania signed an agreement in 2020 committing to jointly construct the 1445 kilometers
(898 miles) East Africa crude oil pipeline at an estimated cost of 3.5 billion US$
The pipeline is planned to have a capacity of 216,000 barrels of crude oil per day
it will be 24 inches centimeters in diameter and Uganda will pay Tanzania
12 US$ and 20 cents for every barrel flowing through the pipeline
4} RUFIJI HYDROPOWER STATION
Rufiji hydropower station also called Julius Nyerere hydropower station is a
2,115 megawatts (2,836,000 horsepower) hydroelectric dam under construction in Tanzania.
The power station is expected to produce 5,920 gigawatt-hours of power annually
In August 2017,
The Tanzanian government made an official public announcement for plans to construct this dam
in December 2018, "the Citizen" a Tanzania newspaper reported that the government of Tanzania had
awarded the construction contract for this power project to Arab contractors limited in Egypt.
at a budgeted cost of 2.9 billion US$,
and in February 2019, the government of Tanzania handed
over the construction site to the consortium comprising of Arab contractors and El Sewedy
both of which are Egyptian companies had been selected to build the power station.
according to the Tanzania energy minister Mr Medard Kalimani, the country's energy ministry
plans to increase the total installed capacity to 5 gigawatts by 2021, and to 10 gigawatts by 2025.
3} BAGAMOYO PORT
Billed as one of the most ambitious mega-projects ever undertaken in Eastern Africa
The Bagamoyo 11 billion US$ is a collaborative effort between Tanzania, China, and Oman.
through a collaboration between Tanzania, China, and Oman
The construction of the ambitious
Bagamoyo port comes along with the construction 190 industries
built throughout a 1,700-hectare special economic zone adjacent to the port
designed to handle 20 million
containers annually once complete
the Bagamoyo port will be Africa's largest port
talks about the project
had taken a big blow in 2016
this is after the former Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli
declared the terms of the project as exploitative and not good for Tanzania's interests.
Tanzania's new president Mrs samia Suluhu Hassan has however resumed talks with the Chinese investors
something which hasn't been received well by her critics and the local population
2} TANZANIA SGR
Tanzania will soon 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 close to 500 kilometers between Mombasa and Nairobi,
and also inaugurating its passenger services in June 2017.
The government of Tanzania is
constructing a new electric railway line using domestic resources from Dar es salaam-Morogoro
to Dodoma which is about 700 kilometers (434 miles)
The whole projects cover a distance of about 2,707 kilometers (1,682 miles)
with three branches from Dar es salaam-Tabora to Isaka which is 1,251 kilometers (777 miles)
Isaka to Mwanza 379 kilometers (235 miles)
and last but not least Isaka to Rusumo
which is 210 kilometers (130 miles)
which will be built in cooperation with the Rwandan government
The Tanzania SGR railway 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 neighboring
countries like Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
and it is being
built in different phases, it is also important to note that, upon completion, the Tanzania SGR railway will
be "the Longest SGR Railway in Africa",
and it will enable Tanzania to be "East and Central Africa Transport Hub"
1} Tanzania Mega LNG Project
the LNG project worth 30 billion dollars has
become the most valuable project in the region
Once complete, the LNG plant is expected to
contribute about 7% towards the country's economic growth
The Tanzania Liquefied Natural Gas project
is a planned liquefied natural gas processing plant in Tanzania.
It is one of the biggest Mega Construction Projects in Africa,
and upon completion it will be one of the biggest
LNG plants in Africa.
The construction of the LNG plant will create the scale to allow
the development of the offshore resources for both domestic and international markets
all from the Netherlands and Norway are expected to jointly construct the plant
and once complete it will make Tanzania "One of the Key Players in the Gas Industry in Africa".
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