TRANSPORT

Tanzania's $2.33 Billion SGR Lots 3, 4, and 5 Financing Is Now Confirmed. The Trains Will Run From Dar es Salaam to Mwanza. The Freight Question Remains Open.

r Standard Chartered arranged USD 2.33 billion in syndicated financing for Tanzania's SGR Lots 3, 4...

Apr 30 17 min

TRANSPORT

Tanzania's Aviation Network: 58 Airports, 300-Plus Airstrips, and the Infrastructure Gap Between Connectivity and Capacity

Tanzania's aviation network is the physical expression of an economy that generates 17.2 percent of ...

Apr 28 9 min

REAL ESTATE MARKET

Dar es Salaam Is Getting a Luxury Waterfront Mall in Masaki. The Building Is Not the Story. What It Signals About the City's Economic Trajectory Is.

Large-scale private commercial development does not happen speculatively. It happens when capital ha...

Apr 21 14 min

LOGISTIC SYSTEMS

Africa Has USD 360 Billion of Infrastructure Committed Under PIDA. A March 2026 Report Found It Faces a 57 Percent Shortage of the Construction Professionals Needed to Deliver It. That Gap Is the Infrastructure Speed Problem, Not Finance.

The comparison between China's infrastructure delivery capacity and Africa's infrastructure delivery...

Apr 17 10 min

LOGISTIC SYSTEMS

Kenya, Uganda Push Railway Link as Great Lakes Trade Potential Drives Corridor Build-Out

The EAC’s own trade data show exports are increasingly shaped by mineral commodities, with copper ...

Apr 15 6 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Dar es Salaam Is Adding 500,000 People a Year and Running Out of Water at the Same Time. The Kidunda Dam Is the Missing Piece.

Dar es Salaam's water supply is drawn more than 90 percent from the Ruvu River system, which experie...

Apr 10 15 min

LOGISTIC SYSTEMS

The Isaka-Kigali SGR Is the Most Important Railway Rwanda Has Never Built. The Financing Gap Between the Vision and the Track Is the Honest Story.

Rwanda has no railway network. Every container of imports arriving from the Port of Dar es Salaam tr...

Apr 10 6 min

TRANSPORT

TAZARA and Lobito Are Not Competing Railways. They Are Competing Systems for Moving Africa's Critical Minerals to the World. Tanzania Needs to Understand the Difference.

The rehabilitation of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway and the parallel development of the Lobito Corrido...

Apr 5 16 min

TRANSPORT

Dar es Salaam’s BRT Expansion Is Not About Traffic. It Is an Attempt to Reduce the Economic Cost of Movement Across Tanzania’s Core Urban Engine.

Dar es Salaam is scaling one of Africa's most ambitious urban transport systems, with six BRT phases...

Mar 31 17 min

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Air Tanzania Grew from One Plane to Sixteen in a Decade. The Real Story Is What It Is Building Toward.

East Africa recorded a 24.3 percent jump in departure seats to 46.5 million in 2026, outpacing every...

Mar 31 14 min

LOGISTIC SYSTEMS

Kenya Built LAPSSET to Win East Africa's Logistics Future. Tanzania May Have Already Won It.

The Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor was conceived as Kenya's boldest infrastructur...

Mar 20 16 min

TRANSPORT

The Daladala Was Broken. These Tanzanians Spent Five Years Fixing It.

For decades, millions of Dar es Salaam residents have boarded the daladala with no idea when it woul...

Mar 14 9 min