Transport in Burundi

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Transport in Burundi

Contents 1 Railways 1.1 Railway links to adjacent countries 1.2 Maps 1.3 2006 2 Highways 3 Waterways 4 Ports and harbors 4.1 Lake Tanganyika 5 Airports 5.1 Airports - with paved runways 5.2 Airports - with unpaved runways 6 See also

[edit] Railways

[edit] Railway links to adjacent countries

• Rwanda - no railways yet.
• Tanzania - no - 1000mm gauge.
• DR Congo - no - 1067mm gauge.

[edit] Maps

• UN Map

• Railways in southern Africa

[edit] 2006

• CHINA STUDY - AUGUST 2006 - China promises to fund a study for the construction of a $US2.7bn railway from the Tanzanian system at Isaka via Kigali in Rwanda to Burundi. Choice of gauge is problematic since Tanzania is 1000mm, while other railways in the vicinity are mostly 1067mm.

• PROPOSED RAILWAY TO LINK FIVE COUNTRIES - Consultants are to be briefed shortly to undertake a $US600,000 feasibility study into a proposed line to link Burundi and Rwanda, which have no railways, with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia; and thereby with the rest of Southern Africa. At a meeting to inaugurate the Northern Corridor Transit Coordination Authority (NCTCA), the governments of Uganda and Burundi backed the proposed new railway from the Ugandan western railhead at Kasese into the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo).

• Burundi Joins Kigali-Dar Rail Link Project October 2006 -

Burundi has been added to a planned railway project to connect Tanzania and Rwanda. Pre-qualified international firms, that have bid to carry out a feasibility study and implementation of the multimillion dollar project, which will connect Tanzania with Rwanda by rail through Isaka Dry Port, are in the process of presenting their final proposals. The head of communication at the African Development Bank, Eric Chinje, told The EastAfrican last week that Burundi has been added to the feasibility study to link Bujumbura to Isaka-Kigali. The ADB has promised to provide $2.6 million for the project. Mr Chinje said the winning bidder will evaluate the best alternative link from the proposed Isaka-Kigali railway to Burundi. According to Mr Chinje, one alternative would be to link Rusumo in Rwanda to Kabanga in Tanzania and Kabanga to Gitega and Bujumbura in Burundi - a distance of approximately 200 km. The other alternative would be to link Rusumo in Rwanda to Kabanga in Tanzania and Kabanga to Muyinga to Ngozi to Bujumburain Burundi - a distance of approximately 220 km. Mr Chinje said the firms to conduct the feasibility study will be picked from eligible member countries of the African Development Bank. The bidding part will include a study that will cover a line of approximately 450 kilometres, of which 275 km are in Tanzania and 175 km in Rwanda. The Tanzania-Kigali rail section will be linked with the TRC on a single-track metre gauge. The Tanzania network is approximately 2,600 km of single-track metre gauge. The network consists of two main lines, the Central line and the Tanga line.

[edit] Highways

total: 14,480 km
paved: 1,028 km
unpaved: 13,452 km (1996 est.)

[edit] Waterways

Lake Tanganyika

[edit] Ports and harbors

[edit] Lake Tanganyika

• Bujumbura

[edit] Airports

4 (1999 est.)

[edit] Airports - with paved runways

total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (1999 est.)

[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (1999 est.)

[edit] See also

• Burundi

This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.