Mtwara

Mtwara is the capital town of Mtwara Region in southeastern Tanzania. In the 1940s, it became deliberate and built as the export facility for the disastrous Tanganyika groundnut scheme, however was rather omitted when the scheme was deserted in 1951. The metropolis is spread out over a large place deliberate to deal with as much as 200,000 humans.

The present populace is around 80,000. As part of the improvement associated with the failed Tanganyika groundnut scheme, Mtwara features a deep-water port which could accommodate ocean-going vessels, and quite a number large municipal buildings, inclusive of a submit office. Recent upgrades inside the port made it feasible for huge container ships to berth there. Mtwara might be the port 3 for the export of iron ore and coal. There are plans to build a railway linking Mtwara with Lindi and mines at Mchuchuma and Liganga thru Songea. In the year 2003, there had been proposals for transporting coal from the Ludewa and Njombe areas respectively through rail to the port of Mtwara in Southern Tanzania as part of the Mtwara Development Corridor assignment.