Italferr meets with Tanzanian railway executives

Rome, 2 December 2025

Italferr, the digital and hi-tech engineering company of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group, welcomed the top management of Tanzania Railways Corporation (TCR) to its headquarters in Rome.

The Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Prof. Dario Lo Bosco, welcomed the General Manager of TCR, Machibya Masanja Shiwa.

The meeting was attended by senior executives of Italferr, including the President Laura Martiniello, Irene Gionfriddo, Director of Foreign Business Development, Business Affairs and Sustainability; Marco Carleo, CEO Office; Ugo di Bennardo, Director of Strategy and Planning; and a delegation from ITS Engineering.

The meeting further confirmed Italferr's mission to consolidate its global leadership by establishing synergies with key global stakeholders.

"In line with its mission to spread the excellence of Italian engineering throughout the world, Italferr is a key player in this process. Thanks to our outstanding know-how, we are able to build railway and road infrastructure and interconnections with mobility hubs, with a focus on sustainability, innovation and digitisation. We also believe that training local talents is a fundamental part of this approach, also through our digital platforms, which are unique in Europe and worldwide, with BIM 4D and 5D and subsequent developments, to enable digital control of schedules and costs and ensure adequate prevention and protection in the processes, with the primary objective of “zero deaths at work”, said Prof. Lo Bosco, emphasising Italferr’s interest in and full willingness to put its highly specialised know-how at the service of Tanzania's infrastructure development objectives, achieved through the design of new railway lines and the inspection, assessment, supervision, monitoring and maintenance planning of existing infrastructure, with a special focus on safety, reliability and operational continuity.

During the meeting, the digital and technological skills that have enabled Italferr to position itself as an international benchmark in the design and construction of complex infrastructure, were also highlighted.

Italferr had already entered into business relations with Tanzania in the past, contributing to the upgrading of the railway sector as part of the development of the signalling and telecommunications system on the Dar Es Salaam-Morogoro railway line (205 km) and the Morogoro-Makutupora line (344 km), an integral part of the Tanzania Central Corridor project, consisting in the preliminary design activities that included both the development of technical specifications and functional requirements, and the design of signalling based on the ETCS Level 2 System and Computer Based Interlocking. The project concerned a total of more than 550 km of an ERTMS Level 2 electrified line for passenger and freight trains.

With this in mind, the meeting aims to strengthen important international synergies, according to the new Italferr policy in support of the increasingly widespread international cooperation activities of the Italian Government and the MIT, in line with the Business Plan of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group.