Tanzania to revive port project in Bagamoyo amid China s hope to ease Malacca Dilemma ANI | Updated: Jul 01, 2021 07:05 IST
Dodoma [Tanzania], July 1 (ANI): Tanzania s decision to resuscitate a USD 10 billion port project in Bagamoyo has set off guesswork that China, the port s main financier, is seeking a foothold on the East African coast.
Last week, President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that Tanzania would resume the port project, which had been stopped due to concerns regarding the demands about the usage of the facility. We are going to start talks with the investors that came for the project with the aim of opening it for the benefit of our nation.
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01 Jul 2021, 11:55 GMT+10
Dodoma [Tanzania], July 1 (ANI): Tanzania s decision to resuscitate a USD 10 billion port project in Bagamoyo has set off guesswork that China, the port s main financier, is seeking a foothold on the East African coast.
Last week, President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that Tanzania would resume the port project, which had been stopped due to concerns regarding the demands about the usage of the facility. We are going to start talks with the investors that came for the project with the aim of opening it for the benefit of our nation. Multiple reports suggest that the port could be used for purposes that go beyond commercial needs. According to a report by Nikkei Asia, the project may also be used as a ship repair hub for the Chinese Navy, or perhaps even more. For China, East Africa provides an easier entry point to the Indian Ocean than other locations closer to the Strait of Malacca, sa
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July 1, 2021
After years, a Chinese-built port is being revived in the East African nation of Tanzania, the completion of which may provide strategic advantages to the PLA Navy in the Indian Ocean.
Now, Tanzania has decided to revive the $10 billion port in Bagamoyo, reported Nikkei Asia.
Located about 75 km south of Tanzania’s major port Dar es Salaam, the Bagamoyo port could also provide China with an entry point to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the land beneath which lies an estimated $24 trillion of untapped mineral deposits, including gold, experts noted.
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