Tourism potential in Tazara railway yet to be exploited

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A road trip is suggested too, but there is little mention of train travel, despite the presence of a railway line leading to the game reserve.

He said the Chinese government has sponsored a feasibility study that looked at the business opportunities along that Tazara line, and one of them was tourism. The Citizen learnt that this week, from October 17, a team of transport experts the government are expected to travel to China to join their counterparts in the Asian country as they work out a strategy that would help to revive Tazara into a commercially viable business enterprise. Tazara has remained to be a “failed” corporation for years now. For the past 40 years, it boasts of having transported about 28.4 million tons of good and 47.5 million passengers. It was designed with capacity to handle five million tonnes of freight per annum, with a 1067mm-gauge that allows through traffic operations with other Southern African railways.

Tourism potential in Tazara railway yet to be exploited

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