Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 Tanzanian shilling (TSh) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Tanzanian shillings (TSh) per US$1 - 558.18 (December 1995), 574.76 (1995), 509.63 (1994), 405.27 (1993), 297.71 (1992), 219.16 (1991)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
Transportation ———————
Railways:
total: 3,569 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,600 km 1.000-m gauge; 969 km 1.067-m gauge
note:: the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which
operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es
Salaam and New Kapiri M'poshi in Zambia is not a part of Tanzania
Railways Corporation; 969 km are in Tanzania and 891 km are in
Zambia; because of the difference in gauge, this system does not
connect to Tanzania Railways
Highways:
total: 55,600 km
paved: 20,572 km (including 50 km of expressways)
unpaved: 35,028 km (1992 est.)
Waterways: Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Lake Nyasa
Pipelines: crude oil 982 km
Ports: Bukoba, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Lindi, Mkoani, Mtwara,
Musoma, Mwanza, Tanga, Wete, Zanzibar