Alarm over safety on Dar commuter train

The lack of spare parts makes it impossible for commuter train operations to begin.

 Reli Assets Holding Company (Rahco), the state-owned firm responsible for railway infrastructure, plans to construct new rail routes to increase commuter train services in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, the firm said.

TRC eyes six commuter railway networks in Dar  The Citizen Daily

By a Special Correspondent

The country has continued to suffer massive pipeline fuel losses, alarming the regulators who are now calling for urgent solution to stop the negative trend.

This comes in the wake of a recent report that around two million liters of fuel were lost when two vessels discharged fuel at the Single Point Mooring (SPM) recently.

A letter by the Petroleum Importation Co-ordinator (PIC) dated March 2 to oil terminal owners signed by its General Manager Michael Mjinja...

>Two weeks ago, the government announced it has entered into agreement with an investor from US to establish a 13km commuter train route from the Dar es Salaam city centre to the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) by the end of  December or early next year.

Dar man hit by train, dies on spot
Daily News
A PEDESTRIAN died and six other people injured in separate accidents on Wednesday in Kinondoni Municipality in Dar es Salaam. In the first incident, an unidentified man aged between 25 and 30 years old was knocked down and died on the spot by a train ...

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Dar marks Road Safety Week with bitter memories
IPPmedia
Road accidents have been dogging Tanzania for decades now. However, government and other key stakeholders have tirelessly been taking various initiatives to ensure that the country gains zero accidents. According recent statistics, road accidents claim ...

>President Paul Kagame of Rwanda yesterday launched the beginning of a freight train route from Dar es Salaam to Rusumo and Isaka that borders the two countries.

TAZARA revises commuter schedule
Times of Zambia
THE Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) has re-organised its passenger train operations and introduced new travel timetables on major routes. Head of public relations Conrad Simuchile said yesterday that with effect from Tuesday August 26 2014 ...
TAZARA terminates cross-border passenger train servicesGlobalPost

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