Tanzania to Build Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar Bridge.
Dodoma. To facilitate the free flow of people and goods throughout Tanzania and the surrounding islands of Zanzibar, Tanzania plans to construct a bridge that will span a distance of fifty kilometers (km) and will serve as the continent’s very first bridge of its kind.
Godfrey Kasekenya, the deputy minister of Works and Transport, made this announcement in Parliament today, April 28, adding that discussions that started on March 11, 2023, have reached an advanced stage.
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Kasekenya reported that both parties had a meeting with the potential investors of M/S China Overseas Engineering Group Company (COVEC). Who have expressed interest in the construction of the bridge.
He has stated that both parties in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar are still working on the outcome of the meeting. And he has mentioned that the plan for the construction of the bridge will involve a partnership with the private sector.
He was responding to a question that had been posed by Mwantum Dau Haji. Who sat in the CCM Special Seats and was interested in finding out when the construction of the bridge would begin.
In the year 2020, a group of Tanzanians living abroad proposed the idea. Of constructing a sea bridge to connect Unguja Island and Dar es Salaam. This was the origin of the bridge’s concept.
The concept generated a lot of discussion among the citizens. With some of them arguing that it is nothing more than a pipe dream.
However, recent advancements in science and technology have demonstrated that the project to build a bridge between Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam of approximately 50 kilometers in length is feasible. Provided that sufficient funding is made available.
Tanzania to Build Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar Bridge.
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