This is the Official page for TAZARA, a bi-national railway offering both freight and passenger services across Tanzania and Zambia and, by extension, linking the tripartite regional groupings of COMESA, SADC and EAC: http://www.tazarasite.com TAZARA, covering a distance of 1,860km, runs from Tanzania’s major seaport of Dar es Salaam into the heart of Zambia’s Central Province, terminatin
g at New Kapiri-Mposhi, where it is further linked by road and rail to Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka (about 200km), Zambia’s mining nerve centre, the Copperbelt province (about 100km) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). TAZARA’s core business is freight and passenger railway transportation services. It is a major transporter of copper and other minerals out of Zambia and the DRC, but also conversely serves as a key conduit for all kinds of bulk imports from all over the world feeding the mines and agricultural farmlands of Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania and the DRC, as well as Rwanda and Burundi through the Port of Mpulungu on Lake Tanganyika. TAZARA connects the three regional groupings of COMESA, SADC and the East African Community (EAC). TAZARA’s passenger transportation not only eases mobility for some of the most disadvantaged rural communities in Tanzania and Zambia, but also provides a public railway service that is predictable, reliable, safe and convenient to the citizens of both countries as well as tourists from all over the world.