YOUR EXCELLENCIES, AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS: I WISH TO FORMALLY WELCOME YOU TO ZAMBIA AND TO STATE HOUSE IN PARTICULAR. LET ME CONGRATULATE YOUR EXCELLENCIES ON YOUR APPOINTMENTS AS AMBASSADORS AND HIGH COMMISSIONERS TO THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA. YOU HAVE JOINED A VIBRANT DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY IN LUSAKA. ZAMBIA VALUES THE WARM RELATIONS SHARED WITH EACH COUNTRY REPRESENTED HERE, PREMISED ON MUTUAL RESPECT, TRUST AND COOPERATION AT BOTH BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL LEVELS. I AM CONFIDENT THAT YOUR APPOINTM ENTS TO REPRESENT YOUR RESPECTIVE GOVERNMENTS IN ZAMBIA WILL SERVE TO FURTHER ENHANCE OUR RELATIONS AND TRANSCEND OUR BILATERAL AND MULTILATERAL COOPERATION TO...

We, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) Council of Ministers, comprising the Ministers responsible for Transport, Finance and Industry in Tanzania and Zambia, meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this 13th Day of October 2019, do hereby declare the following. Operational Performance We noted that the performance of the Authority remained below breakeven point and therefore requiring immediate action to improve the situation. Review of the TAZARA Act We noted that the review of the TAZARA Act is nearing final conclusion and the Bilateral Agreement to pave way for the revision of the Act will be signed by the end of...

By Conrad K. Simuchile || Business Communicator || Head of Public Relations, Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority Head Office, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania   The Dar es Salaam Corridor Group (DCG) and the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) have entered into a partnership agreement for the development of a Dry Port at the terminal end of TAZARA in New Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia.   DCG emerged winner from an open competitive bidding process and is soon expected to begin constructing the Dry Port on a Build-Lease-Transfer (BLT) Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model.   Included in the terms are that DCG will take hold of the four (4) hectare piece...