{"id":368,"date":"2020-03-08T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infrastructurebrief.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2023-12-18T19:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:29:23","slug":"dodoma-targets-one-million-visitors-annually-at-new-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infrastructurebrief.com\/dodoma-targets-one-million-visitors-annually-at-new-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodoma Targets One Million Visitors Annually At New Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s capital city, Dodoma, will get a new airport that is expected to carter for over one million people.<\/p>\n<p>A loan of US $272m has been forwarded to the government of Tanzania to upgrade the infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The African Development Bank ( AfDB) has forwarded the US $272m loan to the government of Tanzania to construct an international airport in Dodoma.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of a programme to expand the East African nation\u2019s infrastructure. The funding package comprises a US $198.6m loan from the AfDB, US $23.52m from the African Development Fund, and US $50m in co-financing from China\u2019s Africa Growing Together Fund, which the AfDB manages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn expanded air transport network in Dodoma, together with the ongoing high-speed railway construction on the central corridor, are necessary infrastructure investments to help unlock and disperse spatial development in the countryside.This will strengthen the city\u2019s potential as a strategic growth pole in keeping with Tanzania\u2019 national development aspirations of fostering shared growth for all the regions,\u201d said Amadou Oumarou, the AfDB\u2019s infrastructure and urban development department director.<\/p>\n<p>The modern airport will be built in Msalato, 12 km from Dodoma. It will include a passenger terminal, runway and related infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The new airport project will take approximately four years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion it will have a capacity to handle 1 million passengers annually and will have a runway of just over 2km in length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania&#8217;s capital city, Dodoma, will get a new airport that is expected to carter for over one million people. A loan of US $272m has been forwarded to the government of Tanzania to upgrade the infrastructure. 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