DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 27 -- TANZANIAS growing investment in roads, railways, ports, airports and public transport is creating the physical foundation for a more connected economy.

However, as the country looks towards the ambitions of Dira 2050, the bigger challenge may no longer be how much infrastructure it can build, but how effectively it can make that infrastructure work together.

That was the central message delivered by Minister for Transport Professor Makame Mbarawa at the fourth International Conference on Transport, Logistics and Management (ICTLM) in Dar es Salaam recently.

Prof Mbarawa said Tanzania must move beyond developing individual transport projects and instead build an integrated multimodal system linking railways, ro...