Turkey company signs $1.1bn TZ railway deal

Railway Assets Holding Company acting managing director Masanja Kadogosa (third right), Mota-Engil Africa head Manuel Antonio Mota (second left) and Yapi Merkezi director Murat Hasim Koksal (middle) sign an agreement on a railway project in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO | MINISTRY OF WORKS

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It will take two years to complete the works on the project in the first of several contracts planned for the overhaul of the more than 1,300-kilometre railway line to standard gauge