In Tanzania, on August 1, a 541-kilometer railway line from the port of Dar es Salaam and Morogoro to the capital of the country, Dodoma, was put into operation. The cost of the project was $3.1 billion. The construction was carried out by the Turkish company Yapi Merkezi.

The new railway connects Tanzania with countries that do not have access to the Indian Ocean: Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda.