Dar Es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati (DIKKM) Railway Project

The Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati (DIKKM) Railway Project is a new standard gauge railway line from Dar Es Salaam to Isaka to Kigali with a link to Burundi that will run from Keza to Musongati via Gitega. The new railway line will facilitate the efficient movement of freight and passenger traffic and provide access to the port of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania for Burundi and Rwanda.. The 100 year-old railroad that extends from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, toward Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern DRC and Uganda, is the backbone of Tanzania’s transport infrastructure and the most efficient transportation route from the coast into Central East Africa.The project involves a new standard guage (1435mm) line from Dar Es Salaam to Isaka (970 km) which will largely parallel the existing meter gauge (1000 mm) Central corridor railway and in some locations be constructed within the right-of-way of the existing line. Together with new Greenfield lines from Isaka to Kigali (494 km) and Keza to Musongati (197 km) The 691km of new railway will link the commercial capital of Rwanda, Kigali with a dry port in central Tanzania, the Isaka dry port. The project costs have been put at US$3.5 million.