Malawi Unveils Plans for New Railway Link to Tanzania As Transport Costs Squeeze Consumers

Malawi Unveils Plans for New Railway Link to Tanzania As Transport Costs Squeeze Consumers

Malawi has dramatically ramped up plans to build a brand new north-bound railway connecting the landlocked nation to the Tanzania-Zambia rail network, in a bold bid to slash transport costs that are currently crippling businesses and piling fresh misery onto struggling households.

Malawi intensifies North-bound rail plans

Malawi has intensified plans to build a North-bound railway linking the country to the Tanzania-Zambia network, in a bid to cut transport costs which account for an estimated 60 percent of import and export expenses. The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority, popularly known as Tazara, is a bi-national railway linking the landlocked Zambia to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean …