JOURNAL OF DEFENCE STUDIES

China’s Bagamoyo Port Project: Geo-economic and Geo-political Imperatives for India

Captain (Dr) Sibapada Rath is a serving officer of Indian Navy and currently posted at National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi.
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  • January-March 2023
    Volume: 
    17
    Issue: 
    1
    Commentaries

    Tanzania is a strategically located country on the eastern coast of Africa. It is an important node of China’s Maritime Silk Road project and constitutes a significant part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Under the BRI, China had envisaged that Bagamoyo would be the largest port in all of Africa, supplemented by a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and a trans-continental railway line, making Tanzania a hub of commerce in East Africa. Bagamoyo itself is a tiny town located about 45 miles north of the former capital city Dar es Salaam.2 The port was expected to handle 20 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU) by 2045, which is 25 times the amount of cargo the Dar es Salaam port handles.

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