Tanzania To Revive $10B Port Project That Will Transform It Into A Trade And Transport Hub

Government of Tanzania considers reviving $10 Billion port project that may transform it into a trade and transport hub. 

President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Saturday that Tanzania will look to revive a $10 billion stalled port project on the eastern coast of the country.

Tanzania inked a framework agreement in 2013 with China Merchants Holdings International to construct the port and a special economic zone that aimed to transform the east African country into a trade and transport hub to rival its neighbours.

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The government of the late president John Magufuli, whom Hassan succeeded after he died in March, had complained that the conditions proposed by the investors, which included Oman’s State General Reserve Fund, were commercially unviable.

China Merchants, China’s largest port operator, said in 2019 that years of negotiations with Tanzania had failed to produce an agreement. The port was to be located in Bagamoyo, about 75 km (47 miles) north of Dar es Salaam.

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“I would like to share with you the good news that we have started negotiations on reviving the whole Bagamoyo port project,” Hassan said during a gathering with the private sector in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

Samia, the former vice president, will lead Tanzania as the first female and first Muslim to rule the East African country for the remainder of former Magufuli’s term until 2025.

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