TransAfricaRail

TransAfricaRail is a proposal dated 2009 to use raw materials of African countries to build a railway network from Sudan in the east to Cameroon in the west.

The line would go via landlocked and rail-less Central African Republic.

2006 "It will take only 48 hours to transport goods between the Red Sea and the Atlantic Ocean using a double-stack container carrying express train at an average speed of 150 km/h".

A similar project is the TAZARA Railway which links Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to the railway network of Zambia.

This was completed in 1975 with financing from the People's Republic of China.