Tanzania, a country in the Southern African region carries a "dream" of becoming a regional hub in the member states' supply value chain.

It is that in 2017 it launched a rail development project, and gradually it is coming to fruition.

Proof of this is that recently, by means of a new agreement signed at the end of the year, the Turkish company Yapi Merkezi has just been entrusted with the construction of the railway axis to link Makutupora, located in the capital Dodoma, to Tabora, a city in the northwest of the country.

According to information published by African Markets, the infrastructure is valued at 1.9 billion, and is a segment of a 1,219-kilometer line of the SGR network under development.

It should be noted that the SGR project is part of the implementation of the modernization and extension plan for the national railway network, to be increased to around 2,560 kilometers.

This network, which will connect the entire territory of Tanzania, will have links to neighboring countries, including Mozambique.

The idea is to make Dar es Salaam the natural extension of the Indian Ocean for these landlocked states.

It must be said that Tanzania is not alone in nurturing the ambition to become the center of trade with these countries without opening up to the sea.

Since the entry of the new presidency, Tanzania has been the target of a serious investment drive. Among several objectives concerned is the reactivation of billion-dollar projects.

Examples include the construction of the $10 billion Bagamoyo megaport and special economic zone and the $30 billion liquefied natural gas project located in Lindi, and which had been set aside under the administration of the now deceased former president.