{"id":24659,"date":"2019-08-20T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abdas.org\/?p=24659"},"modified":"2019-08-20T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T04:44:15","slug":"tanzania-signed-a-deal-with-two-chinese-groups-for-the-construction-of-a-3-2km-bridge-over-parts-of-lake-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/2019\/08\/20\/tanzania-signed-a-deal-with-two-chinese-groups-for-the-construction-of-a-3-2km-bridge-over-parts-of-lake-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Signed A Deal With Two Chinese Groups For The Construction Of A 3.2km Bridge Over Parts Of Lake Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bridge-Over-Parts-Of-Lake-Victoria.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bridge-Over-Parts-Of-Lake-Victoria.jpg 750w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bridge-Over-Parts-Of-Lake-Victoria-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bridge-Over-Parts-Of-Lake-Victoria-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Bridge-Over-Parts-Of-Lake-Victoria-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/> Tanzania signs deal on new bridge to cut time on Central Corridor. The country signed a deal with two Chinese groups, that is China Civil Engineering Construction and China Railway 15th Bureau in order to construct a  3.2km bridge over parts of Lake Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge will connect Kigongo and Busisi areas in Mwanza region, and help to connect Tanzania to Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi via road.<\/p>\n<p>At present, vehicles take about three hours to cross to either side of the lake via a ferry \u2014 two hours in a queue to get onto the ferry and another hour to get to the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive of the Tanzania Roads Agency, Patrick Mfugale, said \u201cthe bridge will reduce transport time and make trade easier among countries in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government, through the Marine Service Company Ltd and Uganda Railway Corporation, has also set up a one-stop centre for the smooth haulage of cargo and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to strengthen trade and transport on Lake Victoria received a boost in November last year when Presidents John Magufuli and Yoweri Museveni signed a landmark deal.<\/p>\n<p>An official with information on the project said, plans for a new ship to function between Mwanza and ports in Kenya and Uganda in the next one year are ongoing as the ship is about 35 per cent complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania signs deal on new bridge to cut time on Central Corridor. The country signed a deal with two Chinese groups, that is China Civil Engineering Construction and China Railway &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49501,"featured_media":24660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}