adminaverage of 23 percent with effect from July 1, the Times of Zambia reported yesterday.
Conrad Simuchile, the company’s head of public relations, said the railway firm had found it necessary to adjust the fares upwards because of the rising cost of fuel, the main operating expense for the company.
The official said the last fare adjustment was effected in 2011 and that there had been several fuel price increments since then without corresponding changes in the fares.
The full schedule of fares has since been displayed at all railway stations along the TAZARA line while further notices would run in the media before the fares become effective, he added.
The railway line, built with the assistance of the Chinese government, runs from the Zambian town of Kapiri Mposhi to the Tanzanian town of Dar es Salaam.
The company’s express passenger trains depart simultaneously from Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi every Tuesday. The trains serve about a million people. — Xinhua.
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