page_title: Kigoma
section_title: Maritime transport
hierarchical_section_title: Kigoma / Transport / Maritime transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Mv.Liemba was the ship used as a military submarine by the Germans during World War I and was known then as Graf von Goetzen. The Germans tied the navy with big guns to increase its capacity and it became a large armored ship on the lake. It was sunk into the lake by the Germans themselves after the war in 1916 but eight years later it was revived and renamed Liemba. Today it is one of the oldest ships in the world still serving Lake Tanganyika. It was developed in 1913 and is now estimated to be 106 years old as a major tourist attraction in Kigoma. This is an image with the theme "Africa on the Move or Transport" from: Tanzania
context_page_description: Kigoma is a town and lake port in north western Tanzania, on the north eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. It serves as the capital for the surrounding Kigoma Region and has a population of 135,234 and an elevation of 775 m.
  The historic trading town of Ujiji is 6 km south-east of Kigoma.
context_section_description: Kigoma is one of the busiest ports on north eastern Lake Tanganyika, since historically it was the only one that had a functioning railway connection (the one at Kalemie in The Democratic Republic of the Congo is not operational at the moment), a direct link to the ocean port at Dar es Salaam. Kigoma Port in the Kigoma Bay has a wharf of two hundred metres and several cranes and is equipped to handle shipping containers. However, the bay is suffering from silting up as a result of soil erosion from surrounding hills, and the water depths at wharfside has diminished from 6 m to 1.8 m. This may threaten the economic growth of the port. In May 2007 the Tanzanian Government announced a plan to create an economic zone at the port to stimulate trade and to ensure stable economic growth of the Port for the government in Power in 2015 and 2020.
  The MV Liemba sails every week from Kigoma to Mpulungu in Zambia at the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika, stopping at a number of other lakeside towns in Tanzania on the way. The MV Mwongozo sails from Kigoma to Baraka, Uvira and Bujumbura at the northern tip of the lake, although it is not working currently. There are other ships from Congo and Burundi that sail to Kigoma Port every week.
caption: The Kigoma port during the day time.
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