Project Showcase

The project concerns feasibility and future development of the Kinshasa-Ilebo railway link, often discussed together with the Kinshasa-Brazzaville road-rail bridge agenda. The strategic rationale is to overcome a long-standing bottleneck in the DRC transport system by connecting Kinshasa more effectively to the interior and to regional rail corridors.Historically, DRC s transport network has depended heavily on a combination of river, road and ageing rail assets. AfDB-backed studies considered the feasibility of extending rail connectivity and improving intermodal movement between Kinshasa, Ilebo and neighbouring corridors. This is particularly important for freight movements between the Atlantic gateway, the Congo River basin and mining/agricultural hinterlands.Validation note: external AfDB sources validate the feasibility-study scope and the approximate 1,015 km survey/study distance, but they do not validate the current construction capex_cost of 16,939 USD million. The cost should remain provisional.Sources reviewed: AfDB MapAfrica, Feasibility Study of the Extension of the Kinshasa-Ilebo Railway, https://mapafrica.afdb.org/en/projects/46002-P-Z1-DC0-014; AfDB, Study on the Road-Rail Bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville and the Kinshasa-Ilebo Railroad, https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/document/multinational-study-on-the-road-rail-bridge-between-kinshasa-and-brazzaville-and-the-kinshasa-ilebo-railroad-8186.

The governments of Kenya and Uganda and Rwanda have committed to the development of a standard gauge railway that links the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Uganda with Mombasa port in Kenya. This project entails the section from Nairobi to the Kenya/Uganda border at Malaba.

The project will connect Mtwara Port with Mbamba Bay through southern Tanzania and provide branch lines to the Mchuchuma coal and Liganga iron-ore deposits. The PAP II concept covers approximately 1,000 km of standard-gauge railway and is designed for passenger speeds of up to 160 km/h and freight speeds of up to 120 km/h. The PAP II baseline was USD 5.5 billion at 2016 prices, excluding VAT; Tanzania's March 2026 PPP pipeline gives a current indicative estimate of approximately USD 5.6 billion. The railway is intended to form the transport backbone of the Mtwara Development Corridor. It would support movement of minerals, agricultural products, fuel, industrial inputs and general freight between inland production areas, Lake Nyasa and the Indian Ocean. Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are identified as beneficiaries in the PAP II record. Feasibility and preliminary design were completed before the current reporting period. Government reporting in 2023 described the next step as engagement of a transaction adviser to review the earlier feasibility work and prepare procurement documentation for selection of a PPP investor. The PPP model reflects the project's large capital requirement and the need to link railway demand with development of the mineral and agricultural base. In February 2026, Tanzania's Deputy Minister for Transport confirmed that feasibility and preliminary design had been completed and that the government was continuing to mobilise resources, including through public-private partnership arrangements. No official record reviewed confirms financial close, award of a railway works contract, contractor mobilisation or construction.

The governments of Kenya and Uganda and Rwanda have committed to the development of a standard gauge railway that links the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Uganda with Mombasa port in Kenya. This project entails the section from Mombasa port to Nairobi in Kenya.

The governments of Kenya and Uganda and Rwanda have committed to the development of a standard gauge railway that links the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Uganda with Mombasa port in Kenya. This project entails the section from Kampala to Kasese in Uganda.

The governments of Kenya and Uganda and Rwanda have committed to the development of a standard gauge railway that links the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Uganda with Mombasa port in Kenya. This project entails the section from Kasese in Uganda, to the border with Rwanda at Mirama Hills.

The Nacala Railway Corridor Project will transport approximately 18 million tons of coal, derived from the expansion of Moatize Mine (Mozambique) through a railway system connecting the existing mine in Moatize to a new coal terminal in Nacala Velha (Mozambique). The project was funded by Vale, and has the potential of being developed into a transport corridor for Mozambique's Tete Province, and potentially Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The railway line is located in the north-western region of Mozambique, starting at Moatize in the Tete Province, going through Malawi and connecting to the existing railway network at Nkaya Junction. From here the route follows the exisitng alignment through Entre Lagos, Cuamba and Nampula. Finally, in the region of Monapo, the railway follows a new route up to the new coal terminal at Nacala Velha. Aurecon previously developed FEL 1, 2 and 3 (Front End Loading) studies for the development of the corridor. The Detail Design (FEL4), included the design of the entire railway line and its associated infrastructure from the mine loadout station to the car dumper at the proposed new port terminal at Nacala Velha. The railway line is designed for a 20.5t axle load. Apart from providing an export conduit for the client, the rail corridor will have direct- and indirect social benefits to the larger community in terms of job creation, improved mobility (passenger train services) and the economic development of the region.

The port expansion for Durban are driven by the major container expansions required to ensure that the port component of the Durban to Gauteng Freight Corridor can meet future demand. Short term expansions will be made within the existing port followed by medium term development of a complementary new port on the old airport site, followed by a long term expansion in Bayhead.

Tanzania is constructing the high speed electric standard gauge railway line from the port of Dar es Salaam to the inland Lake Victoria (at Mwanza) (1219 Km) with a target speed for passenger trains travelling at up to 160kph and cargo trains at up to 120kph and a branch from Isaka to Rusumo connects Keza in Kigali (371 Km)

Tanzania is constructing the high speed electric standard gauge railway line from Isaka to Rusumo connects Keza in Kigali (371 Km)

The governments of Kenya and Uganda and Rwanda have committed to the development of a standard gauge railway that links the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Uganda with Mombasa port in Kenya. This project entails the section from the Malaba border post (between Kenya and Uganda) to the Ugandan capital Kampala.

Expansion of the Maputo port, including the dredging of the port from its current 9,4 m draught to 11 m to accommodate the larger Panamax vessels, which will improve the port"’s competitiveness in terms of bulk and container traffic, and expansion of the coal terminal.

The Nacala Railway Corridor Project will transport approximately 18 million tons of coal, derived from the expansion of Moatize Mine (Mozambique) through a railway system connecting the existing mine in Moatize to a new coal terminal in Nacala Velha (Mozambique). The project was funded by Vale, and has the potential of being developed into a transport corridor for Mozambique's Tete Province, and potentially Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The coal terminal will have the capacity to handle 30 million tons per annum.

Rehabilitation and upgrading of the 197 km of road which would be the first toll road in Tanzania (First 100 km 6 lanes and then 4 lanes). The project requires the construction of a new road, adjacent to the existing road, that will give drivers the choice between paying for a superior toll road, constructed to expressway standards, or making use of the existing road. The project comprises four and six lane carriageways, 8 interchanges, 7 toll plazas and weigh bridges as well as a number of bridges. Tanzania"’s Roads Act 2007 recognises the Dar es Salaam - Chalinze - Morogoro road section as part of the main TANZAM Highway and Central Corridor T-1 route which connects Dar es Salaam and its port with land locked neighbouring countries.

The project involves the upgrading of the 640 km road from Eldoret to Nadapal, the border with South Sudan.

Development of new container terminal (berths 13 and 14) with dredging of the access channel at Dar es Salaam Port.

Construction of a 500kV high voltage transmission line and associated Substation or Converter station that connects the power networks of Egypt and Sudan to facilitate trading in electricity and promote power systems stability. The project comprises the update of project studies.

This project includes development of 3 new berths on the eastern side of Dar es Salaam port, linked by a bridge south of the existing dockyard and fronting the new Kigamboni city extension. The new berths will allow avoidance of access chanel limitations making it possible to handle 6th generation vessels.

This project concerns the Sudan section of a high-voltage Ethiopia-Sudan power interconnection designed to move power from Ethiopia into Sudan and strengthen the Eastern Africa Power Pool. The existing database record describes a 500 kV transmission line ending near Khartoum, with new or upgraded high-voltage substation facilities at Rabak and Jebel Aulia in Sudan and bay extensions linked to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance area and Sudanese network nodes.The project has an important history. Ethiopia and Sudan already implemented an earlier interconnector, which the Nile Basin Initiative documents as commissioned around 2010-2013 and used to support regional power trade. That earlier success provides a technical and institutional basis for the larger 500 kV scheme, but it does not by itself validate the very high CAPEX currently stored against this record.Validation note: external sources confirm the strategic rationale and earlier Ethiopia-Sudan interconnection history, but I did not find a reliable external source confirming the current capex_cost value of 48,494 in USD million. The financial fields should therefore remain under owner validation before being used in investment material.Sources reviewed: World Bank, Regional Eastern Nile - Ethiopia-Sudan Power System Interconnector Project, https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/935901468201843498; Nile Basin Initiative, Ethiopia-Sudan interconnection success story, https://nilebasin.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/Ethiopia-Sudan%2520interconnection%2520success%2520story.pdf.

This project entails the upgrading of the Mombasa -Voi road to a dual carriageway. An alternative short term solution is to rehabilitate the road and provide climbing lanes along sections where heavy vehicles reach crawl speed as a result of steep gradients.

Construction of 365 km Juba-Torit-Kapoeta-Nadapal single cariageway road in South Sudan. The road links with the proposed South Sudan/Kenya OSBP project at Nadapal.

The project will enable a direct road link between the Central Corridor and Lake Victoria at Kigoma.

Widening of the road from 6m to 7m with a paved shoulder to harmonise with EAC standard. The Muyinga-Gitega road is about 104 km on the RN12. This road forms part of the shortest route to the port of Dar es Salaam and carries 60% of international traffic with Burundi.

The project involves the extension of Chingola - Solwezi Railway to the border with Angola at Jimbe, to service new mines in the Copperbelt region. Angola has already commenced construction from Luena on the Lobito Corridor towards Jimbe which lies on the Angola- Zambia border. This project will see full rail service on the Lobito Corridor.

Strategically located half-way down the coast of Namibia, with direct access to principal shipping routes, Walvis Bay is a natural gateway for international trade. Walvis Bay is Namibia's largest commercial port, receiving approximately 3,000 vessel calls each year and handling about 5 million tonnes of cargo. In order to deal with even higher levels of throughput, cargo-handling facilities have been improved, and Namibia Port Authority (Namport) remains committed to infrastructure development, in line with Namport's Mission to provide efficient and effective port and related services. The project will expand the Port of Walvis Bay"’s container handling as well as bulk handling capacity ahead of demand by the construction of a 30 hectare large new modern container terminal on reclaimed land with 600m of quay wall length designed for a water depth of 16.5m alongside but dredged to 14.0m initially. In so doing the current container terminal will be converted back to a multipurpose terminal capable of handling more bulk and break bulk cargo.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the section of 670km of 400kV transmission line from Iringa to Shinyanga via Dodoma and Singida. The design capacity of this section is 2000MW.

Construction of a transmission linethat connects the power networks ofTanzania and Kenya. This projectincludes the section of 414km of400kV transmission line from Singidato Namanga via Arusha. The designcapacity is 2,000MW.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project initially included the section of 400kV, 1134km bidirectional Tanzanian section of the 2,800km ZTK interconnector from Kasama in Zambia to Tunduma-Mbeya-Iringa-Singida-Arusha in Tanzania terminating at Isinya in Kenya. The design capacity of the Tanzania section is 2000MW. The original concept for the ZTK Interconnector was a high voltage 330 kV transmission line going from Pensulo (Zambia) to Nairobi (Kenya) with three connection points in Tanzania (Mbeya, Singida and Arusha). At that time, Tanzania grid was operated at 220 kV. The original concept of the ZTK Interconnector has been replaced, by two interconnections between two national grids: the Kenya-Tanzania Interconnection and the Zambia-Tanzania Interconnection.

The project involves the upgrading of 29 km of the Nairobi Southern Bypass road in Kenya.

The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia's Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6 k), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.

The project involves the construction of a new coal terminal at Beira port. A 50 ha site has been set aside for this purpsoe. The terminal is intended to process export coal mined by Brazilian group Vale and Anglo-Australian group Rio Tinto.

The project is part of the Inga-Cabinda-Pointe Noire transmission interconnector, linking the power systems of DRC, Angola and Congo, with a transfer capacity of 600 MW. The project involves the construction of a section in DRC from Inga to the border with Angola.

The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia's Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6 k), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the section of 905km Zambian section of the 2,800km ZTK interconnector from Kabwe-Pensulo-Nakonde-Kasama in Zambia to Tunduma in Tanzania. The project was envisioned to be implemented in two phases starting with the Kabwe-Pensulo-Kasama-Nakonde section and the second phase would have comprised the Kabwe-Pensulo-Mpika-Kasama section. It will have had a capacity of 500MW, upgradable to 2000MW depending on power demand. The original concept for the ZTK Interconnector was a high voltage 330 kV transmission line going from Pensulo (Zambia) to Nairobi (Kenya) with three connection points in Tanzania (Mbeya, Singida and Arusha). At that time, Tanzania grid was operated at 220 kV. The original concept of the ZTK Interconnector has been replaced, by two interconnections between two national grids: the Kenya-Tanzania Interconnection and the Zambia-Tanzania Interconnection.

The road runs in a southern direction from Harare to Beitbridge Border Post (between Zimbabwe and South Africa), covering a total distance of 571km. The Harare-Beitbridge road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 25). This section covers 184 km from Turn Off to Beitbridge Border Post.

The Sena line runs from Limbe (going through Chiromo where the railway line crosses the Shire River, where the culvert has been washed away and Nsanje) to Marka, the border between Malawi and Mozambique.

The Serenje-Nakonde project road runs in a north eastern direction from Serenje in Zambia's Central Province to Nakonde (at the border post between Zambia and Tanzania) in the Northern Province covering a total distance of 611.5 km. The road is divided in 3 links: Link 1: Serenje to Mpika (238.3 km), Link 2: Mpika to Chinsali (164.6m), Link 3: Chinsali to Nakonde (208.6 km) The Serenje-Nakonde road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link 15) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 4.

The road runs in a southern direction from Harare to Beitbridge Border Post (between Zimbabwe and South Africa), covering a total distance of 571km.The Harare-Beitbridge road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 25). This section covers 151 km from Chivhu to Masvingo.

Construction of a transmission line that connects the power networks of Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. This project includes the section of 400kV, 292km Iringa - Kisada - Mbeya transmission line, 122km of 400kV Mbeya - Tunduma transmission line and 4km of 400kV transmission line from Tunduma to Border of Zambia.Â

The road runs in a southern direction from Harare to Beitbridge Border Post (between Zimbabwe and South Africa), covering a total distance of 571km. The Harare-Beitbridge road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 25). This section covers 141 km from Harare to Chivhu.

Construction of a 500kV high voltage transmission line and associated Substation or Converter station that connects the power networks of Egypt and Sudan to facilitate trading in electricity and promote power systems stability. The project comprises the update of project studies.

The road runs in a south westernly direction from Bulawayo to the Beitbridge Border Post (between Botswana and South-Africa), covering a total of 320km. See this project on an interactive GIS map (with Google Earth satellite imagery and geo-referenced photographs) at www.tmsagis.co.za. The Bulawayo - Beitbridge road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 311).

The road runs in a north-easterly direction from Harare to the Nyamanpanda Border Post (between Zimbabwe and Mozambique), covering a total distance of 278km. See this project on an interactive GIS map (with Google Earth satellite imagery and geo-referenced photographs) at www.tmsagis.co.za. The Harare-Nyamapanda road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link NR 25) as well as the Trans-African Highway NR 9 and the rehabilitation of Marehwa-Nyamapanda is a section of this project, which covers a distance of 172km.

The Chirundu-Harare road runs in a south-easterly direction from Chirundu Border Post (between Zimbabwe and Zambia) to Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, covering a total distance of 348 km. The Chirundu-Harare road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 22) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 9. This section covers a distance of 101 km from Chinhoyi to Harare.

The road is currently paved with bitumen and needs upgrading to asphalt concrete as well as carriageway expansion from 6 meter to 7 meters. The Kobero-Muyinga is on the RN6. This road forms part of the shortest route to a trade port (Dar es Salaam), and carries 60% of international traffic with Burundi.

The road runs in a southern direction from Harare to Beitbridge Border Post (between Zimbabwe and South Africa), covering a total distance of 571km. The Harare-Beitbridge road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 25). This section covers 95 km from Masvingo to Turn Off.

The Chirundu-Harare road runs in a south-easterly direction from Chirundu Border Post (between Zimbabwe and Zambia) to Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, covering a total distance of 348 km.The Chirundu-Harare road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 22) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 9. This section covers a distance of 94 km from Karoi to Chinhoyi.

The Chirundu-Harare road runs in a south-easterly direction from Chirundu Border Post (between Zimbabwe and Zambia) to Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe, covering a total distance of 348 km. The Chirundu-Harare road is part of the Regional Trunk Road Network (RTRN Link Nr 22) as well as the Trans-African Highway Nr 9. This section covers 78 km from Makuti to Karoi.

Rehabilitation of 75 km of existing Kampala-Jinja road to widen and strengthen the carriageway. The road forms a critical section of the Northern Corridor, linking landlocked East African countries with the Port of Mombasa.