- According to the agreement, the equipment was supposed to be completed in November 2021 but as Eurowagon failed to meet the contractual obligations with the first phase of the construction from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro in its final stage of construction, TRC was forced to terminate the contract.
Tanzania Railways (TRC) and Turkish company Eurowagon entered into an agreement in October 2020 for the construction of two electric train locomotives and 30 passenger carriages to be completed by November 2021.However, as Eurowagon failed to meet the contractual obligations with the first phase of the construction from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro, TRC announced that it has terminated the contract. The contract entitles TRC to take responsibility for finalizing the repairs if the bidder fails to comply with the terms of the contract.
The head of the TRC liaison unit, Jamila Mbarouk announced this at a media briefing on June 15 about the progress of the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway. The other contracts signed by the corporation include contracts to purchase 1430 new freight carrier from China’s CRRC, 59 new passenger carriages from South Korea’s Sung Shin Rolling Stock Technology Limited, 10 new sets of 80 modern trains and 17 electric locomotives from Hyundai Rotem of South Korea worth Sh1.18 trillion. The press was also told that the delay in the completion of the project was also due to the Pandemic.
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