Bagamoyo port is back

[Tony254]

Hivi hii bandari inajengwa kwa mkataba upi? Huyu mama mm nilimkataa tokea mwanzo humu,baadhi ya watu wakasema tumpe muda,narudia tena,huyu mama mm sitawahi kumkubali japo sina la kufanya,HAFAI!!!

Lia tu machozi. Mama haondoki ng'o.

 

[Venus Star]

Mkuu,

Unajihakikishiaje JPM kauawa na hajafa kwa ugonjwa, kama Covid-19 vile?

Watu wake wa karibu waliumwa sana. Na yeye alikuwa na matatizo yanayojulikana kumuweka kwenye high risk group.

Kuna barua ilikuja kutoka sehemu inasadikika ilikuwa na kimeta. Wa kwanza kuipokea iliondoka na maji, kijazi nae alikwenda na maji, Mpango chupuchupu. Nasikia hiyo barua ipo. Sina uhakika lakini, ukichunguza ile ndege ya rais sasa hivi haitumiki.

 

[Buenos Aires]

U turn inayopigwa (corona, bagamoyo, ukusanyaji kodi, uharakishaji wa kuchimba gesi n.k) ni wazi aliuliwa.

Una ushahidi gani kama ni kweli aliuliwa?? Acheni kukaa vijiwe vya kahawa ndugu, haya ndio madhara yake.


Hongera sana Mh raisi, Mungu akupe afya njema, wanaokuchukia hawakupunguzii chochote, bali wanaumia na kuteseka.

 

[Buenos Aires]

Lia tu machozi. Mama haondoki ng'o.

Wanateseka sana

 

[Tony254]

Wanateseka sana

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Wanashangaza sana,

 

[Buenos Aires]

Hivi hii bandari inajengwa kwa mkataba upi? Huyu mama mm nilimkataa tokea mwanzo humu,baadhi ya watu wakasema tumpe muda,narudia tena,huyu mama mm sitawahi kumkubali japo sina la kufanya,HAFAI!!!

Ulimkataa wewe kama wewe..wengine wanamkubali sana tu. Alafu ata ukimchukia haumpunguzii kitu mzee.


Miaka 20 tenaaa, Raha sana uyu mama..Mungu ampe afya njema na umri mrefu

 

[Geza Ulole]

Politics

Tanzania Says Resumes Talks for $10 Billion China-Backed Port​

By
Fumbuka Ng'Wanakilala
26. Juni 2021, 18:18 MESZ

• Project was shelved by president’s predecessor over terms
• New leader is seeking to revive major investment deals

Samia Suluhu Hassan
Source: AFP/Getty Images


Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said her government has resumed talks on a planned $10 billion port project backed by China, which was suspended by her predecessor in a disagreement over terms.

Hassan told business leaders in the commercial hub Dar es Salaam on Saturday that her government “has started talks to revive the Bagamoyo port project.”

China Merchants Holdings International, China’s largest port operator, broke ground for the port and special economic zone in October 2015, but the project hit an impasse after the inauguration of President John Magufuli a month later. The project is also financially backed by Oman’s State General Reserve Fund.

The site of the proposed port is located 75 kilometers (47 miles) north of Dar es Salaam, the country’s main port, which importers have complained is inefficient and congested.

Magufuli favoured expansion and upgrading of the Dar es Salaam facility rather than building a new port. But since coming to office after Magufuli’s death in March, Hassan has swiftly moved to fast-track several large projects that had been stalled.

They include a $30 billion liquefied natural gas terminal developed by Equinor ASA, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. and other partners, and a $3 billion joint venture with China’s Sichuan Hongda Co. for an iron ore and coal mine.

Magufuli said in 2019 that “only a madman” would agree to the conditions of the Bagamoyo port deal. Some he publicly rejected included granting a 99-year land lease to the Chinese investors, which he said was contrary to the country’s laws.

But Hassan announced that her government has decided to revive the project “for the benefit of Tanzania.” She didn’t disclose the terms of the new negotiations.

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[Geza Ulole]

June 26, 20213:54 PM CESTLast Updated 2 days ago

Africa​

Tanzania considers reviving $10 billion port project​

Reuters

Tanzania's new President Samia Suluhu Hassan takes the oath of office after the death of predecessor John Magufuli, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

DAR ES SALAAM, June 26 (Reuters) - President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Saturday that Tanzania will look to revive a $10 billion stalled port project on the eastern coast of the country.

Tanzania inked a framework agreement in 2013 with China Merchants Holdings International to construct the port and a special economic zone that aimed to transform the east African country into a trade and transport hub to rival its neighbours.

The government of the late president John Magufuli, whom Hassan succeeded after he died in March, had complained that the conditions proposed by the investors, which included Oman's State General Reserve Fund, were commercially unviable.

China Merchants, China's largest port operator, said in 2019 that years of negotiations with Tanzania had failed to produce an agreement. [Tanzania's China-backed $10 billion port plan stalls over terms: official]

The port, was to be located in Bagamoyo, about 75 km (47 miles) north of Dar es Salaam.

"I would like to share with you the good news that we have started negotiations on reviving the whole Bagamoyo port project," Hassan said during a gathering with the private sector in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

Reporting by Nuzulack Dausen; editing by Omar Mohammed and Christina Fincher

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Tanzania considers reviving $10 billion port project

President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Saturday that Tanzania will look to revive a $10 billion stalled port project on the eastern coast of the country.

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[Chamoto]

Una ushahidi gani kama ni kweli aliuliwa?? Acheni kukaa vijiwe vya kahawa ndugu, haya ndio madhara yake.


Hongera sana Mh raisi, Mungu akupe afya njema, wanaokuchukia hawakupunguzii chochote, bali wanaumia na kuteseka.

Hakuna mwenye chuki na mama, tunachotaka ni mkataba kuwa wazi.

 

[Chamoto]

Boss mimi sijawahi kujua kwamba wakati mwingine una akili finyu. Stop peddling conspiracy theories. You are an educated man.

Sasa ufinyu unatoka wapi?

Huoni uwekezaji wa SGR ambapo reli inakwenda mpaka bandari ya Dar na kupeleka mizigo bandari kavu ya Kwala (kuhakikisha ufanisi), itakuwa ni bure?

Utajengaje bandari kubwa km 60 tuu kutoka bandari nyingine?

Hivi unafahamu sasa hivi tunakusanya kodi kidogo sana (theluthi ya kipindi cha Magu), kama ilivyokuwa kipindi cha awamu ya Kikwete?

Nyinyi wakenya mnavyoshabikia haya ni dhahri mnafaidika na uongozi wa namna hii.

 

[chase amante]

Huyu mama kwenye Hili anakosea

 

[Buenos Aires]

Huyu mama kwenye Hili anakosea

Angelikua magufuli mngemuunga sio!

 

[Geza Ulole]

INDO-PACIFIC

Tanzania to revive $10bn Indian Ocean port project with China​

Bagamoyo has potential to be East Africa's export hub

Workers unload cargo from a ship in the harbor of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Photo courtesy of the International Labour Organization)
KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia chief desk editorJune 27, 2021 03:32 JST

NEW YORK -- One week after assuming the Chinese presidency in March 2013, Xi Jinping embarked on his maiden foreign visit. After a brief stopover in Russia, the new leader arrived in Africa. The three-nation tour of the continent began in Tanzania.

Beijing had high hopes for the East African nation. Facing the Indian Ocean, state planners believed that the country could serve as the main gateway to China -- where resources could be brought from across the continent and loaded onto ships headed for the mainland.

But Tanzania's port of Dar es Salaam was already congested and known for the terrible traffic jams leading to it. So a plan was drawn up to build a new, $10 billion sprawling port in Bagamoyo, about 75 km to the north.

Xi and then-Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete watched over the signing of a framework agreement between China Merchants Holdings International, China's largest port operator, and the government of Tanzania to develop a road map for the port project.

The ambitious plan later stalled, reportedly due to frustration on the Tanzanian side over the conditions China had presented, including a request that Tanzania not question who invests in Bagamoyo once the port was operational.

Dar es Salaam's traffic jams hamper its potential to grow as a hub port for East Africa. (Photo courtesy of the International Monetary Fund)

But on Saturday, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said the country will look to revive the port project.

"Regarding the Bagamoyo Port project, let me give you the good news that we have started talks to revive the whole project," she said at a gathering of the Tanzania National Business Council. "We are going to start talks with the investors that came for the project with the aim of opening it for the benefit of our nation," she said, according to local newspaper The Citizen.

China's Xinhua News Agency also carried the president's words.

Hassan's comments come five days after speaking with Xi by phone. "China is ready to work with Tanzania to consolidate political mutual trust, strengthen mutual support," Xi told Hassan according to Xinhua.

Reminding Hassan that Tanzania was the first African country he visited as president, Xi stressed that "China always views and develops the China-Tanzania relations from a strategic and long-term perspective and firmly supports Tanzania in taking the development path in line with its national conditions," Xinhua said.

Xi said China stands ready to synergize the joint construction of the Belt and Road with Tanzania's development strategies.

The repeated pledge to be considerate of Tanzania's national conditions is likely a reflection of the tensions that the Bagamoyo project has caused to date.

China reportedly requested to Tanzania that once Bagamoyo Port was established, no other port would be built from Tanga in the north to Mtwara in the south. (Google Earth)

The Bagamoyo project was shelved by Kikwete's successor, the late President John Magufuli, who had complained about "exploitative and awkward" terms attached to the deal. Among the conditions Magufuli disliked were requests from China that no other port be built in Tanzania, from Tanga in the north to Mtwara in the south.

The Citizen also quoted Magufuli as saying Tanzania was told "we should not question whoever comes to invest there once the port is operational."

The port project was planned to be a three-way collaboration between China Merchants Holdings, Oman's State General Reserve Fund and the Tanzanian government.

China Merchants, said in 2019 that years of negotiations with Tanzania had failed to produce an agreement.

China's homegrown Shandong aircraft carrier: The Djibouti base is capable of accommodating both aircraft carriers and the latest amphibious assault ships. © Xinhua via Kyodo

Last year, in a series of tweets, Chinese Ministry of Commerce official Cheng Wang, who was the officer in charge of East African affairs at the ministry between 2013 and 2017, said that once Bagamoyo was complete, the new port and Dar es Salaam would have a relationship similar to Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Cheng explained that after negotiations on Bagamoyo stalled, China Merchants focused instead on port development in Djibouti.

Djibouti is where China has its sole overseas naval base. Recently China added a pier in the East African nation large enough to accommodate an aircraft carrier, which could potentially allow the country's navy to project power outside the traditional operating areas of the East and South China seas.

Combined with the late Magufuli's comments on China demanding Tanzania not question who invests in Bagamoyo, one could speculate if China is looking for another East African port it can use for naval purposes.

Tanzania to revive $10bn Indian Ocean port project with China

Bagamoyo has potential to be East Africa's export hub

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[KENPAULITE]

Sasa ufinyu unatoka wapi?

Huoni uwekezaji wa SGR ambapo reli inakwenda mpaka bandari ya Dar na kupeleka mizigo bandari kavu ya Kwala (kuhakikisha ufanisi), itakuwa ni bure?

Utajengaje bandari kubwa km 60 tuu kutoka bandari nyingine?

Hivi unafahamu sasa hivi tunakusanya kodi kidogo sana (theluthi ya kipindi cha Magu), kama ilivyokuwa kipindi cha awamu ya Kikwete?

Nyinyi wakenya mnavyoshabikia haya ni dhahri mnafaidika na uongozi wa namna hii.

Boss let me tell you on Sunday i was coming back from TZ, hundreds of Tanzanian trucks zilikua zinaleta goods to Kenya, KRA was having a field day hapo namanga with their mobile scanners, to answer you, you guys are benefitting more.

 

[Chamoto]

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Boss let me tell you on Sunday i was coming back from TZ, hundreds of Tanzanian trucks zilikua zinaleta goods to Kenya, KRA was having a field day hapo namanga with their mobile scanners, to answer you, you guys are benefitting more.

Biashara kati ya wa Kenya na wa Tanzania siku zote imekuwa nzuri, tatizo lilikuwa kati ya Magu na Cartels wa Kenya. Hawa maCartel wamekuwa wakitumika kama chambo kutoka nje ili kudhoofisha utawala wa Magu, ambao ulikuwa tishio kwao.

Tanzania kwa sasa kodi hazikusanywi boss, nchi itakosa pesa ya kuiendesha, matokea yake tutarudi kuwa omba omba. Itabidi tufuate masharti za kijinga ili kupata pesa.

Unafikiri tungeweza kujenga dam kama tungekuwa hatukusanyi kodi?

 

[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania's decision to revive China-backed port project could challenge India's security interests​

By
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury ET BureauLast Updated: Jun 29, 2021, 04:35 PM IST


Synopsis

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s new President, on Saturday said the country will look to revive the Bagamoyo Port project, days after speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping over the phone, ET has learnt. Tanzania was the first African country that Xi visited in 2013 after becoming China’s President.​

The port project is aimed at giving a boost to the local economy.


Tanzania’s decision to revive a Beijing-backed port project in the country has created a potential headache for India, which has been the net security provider in the Indian Ocean Region for decades. There are fears that China could use the port for military purposes and project power in the western and southern Indian Ocean Region, people in the know said.

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s new President, on Saturday said the country will look to revive the Bagamoyo Port project, days after speaking with Chinese President Xi Jinping over the phone, ET has learnt. Tanzania was the first African country that Xi visited in 2013 after becoming China’s President.

Addressing Tanzania National Business Council, Hasan, according to local newspaper The Citizen, said, "Regarding the Bagamoyo Port project, let me give you the good news that we have started talks to revive the whole project. We are going to start talks with the investors that came for the project with the aim of opening it for the benefit of our nation."


China’s state-run Xinhua also reported the development. The port project is aimed at giving a boost to the local economy.

During the 2013 visit, Xi and the then-Tanzanian president, Jakaya Kikwete, witnessed the signing of a framework agreement between China Merchants Holdings International, China's largest port operator, and the Tanzania government to develop a road map for the Bagamoyo port project. The project, however, stalled a few years later due to Tanzania’s objection.

“The Bagamoyo project was shelved by Kikwete's successor, the late President John Magufuli, who had complained about "exploitative and awkward" terms attached to the deal. Among the conditions Magufuli disliked were requests from China that no other port should be built in Tanzania--from Tanga in the north to Mtwara in the south,” Japan’s leading media platform Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday.

After negotiations on Bagamoyo stalled, China Merchants focused on port development in Djibouti, where China has its sole overseas naval base, Africa experts told ET, adding that this may have played a role in shaping Magufuli’s decision.

India, for decades, has been the net security provider in the Indian Ocean Region and shares strong security ties with Mauritius and Seychelles in the Western Indian Ocean Region. India and Tanzania share close ties since the Cold War days and are partners for South-South Cooperation. In the post-Cold War period, India and Tanzania initiated economic reform programmes around the same time alongside developing external relations aimed at broader international political and economic relations,
developing international business linkages and inward foreign investment.

India is Tanzania’s largest trading partner, accounting for 16% of its foreign trade. It is also among the top five investment sources in Tanzania, and as per Tanzania Investment Centre, Indian investments in Tanzania add up to $ 2.2 billion, according to an external affairs ministry note.

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[Geza Ulole]

Analysts: Why Samia is right on proposed Bagamoyo Port​

WEDNESDAY JUNE 30 2021​

Summary​

• The government signed a framework agreement in 2013 for the proposed port and a special economic zone

By The Citizen Reporter
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Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s pronouncement that the government has restarted negotiations on reviving the $10 billion Bagamoyo Port Project has prompted debate on the matter, with some analysts saying it was the right thing to do.

The government signed a framework agreement in 2013 with China Merchants Holdings International (CMHI) and Oman’s State General Reserve Fund to build the port and a special economic zone as part of efforts to transform Tanzania into a trade and logistics hub in the region.

But the Fifth Phase administration of the late John Magufuli dismissed the project, saying it was exploitative and inappropriate.

However, chairing her maiden Tanzania National Business Council in Dar es Salaam recently, President Hassan – who ascended to the Presidency on March 19, 2021 following the death in office of Dr Magufuli on March 17, 2021 – said the Bagamoyo Port project should be implemented for the benefit of the country.

Analysts now say there had been a number of falsified statements during the past administration to justify the cancellation of the project.



Mini Tiger

Those that spoke to The Citizen said yesterday that it was unfortunate that people had been debating the issue without taking trouble to understand how it all started and its entire scope.

“It’s not about the port alone. In fact, the port is just a very small fraction of a wider Bagamoyo Special Economic Zone (BSEZ) which started in 2004 as part of the Tanzania Mini Tiger Plan 2020,” said a source privy to the topic on condition of anonymity.

Placed under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Tanzania Mini Tiger Plan is an economic strategy aimed at fostering development in the country by increasing exports to the global market.



Master Plan

Contrary to widely-held assumption that the project was being advanced by foreign nations, the Bagamoyo Port Project is the brainchild of the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) through its Tanzania Port Development Master Plan which runs from 2009 to 2028.

Even before the arrival of China and Oman, TPA had contracted the Germany-based Hamburg Port Consulting to conduct feasibility study on the project. That was followed by a feasibility study by the Ministry of Industry and Trade – through CowiConsult - that sought to link the port project with the entire BSEZ.

Later, the CMHI and Oman’s State General Reserve Fund joined forces and applied for investment in the BSEZ and Bagamoyo Port.

“Plus other local and foreign players, including the South Korea – through its Science and Technology Policy Institute which sought to invest in the Bagamoyo High Technology Park – the whole project would include 760 factories that would create 270,000 jobs in its first phase,” a source said, dismissing grounds advanced by those opposing the project.

They say investors in the project were unable to respond to some of the “gravely false statements” by those against it (the project) because they (the statements) were being put forward by senior government officials who they would not want to engage into tussles with.



No debt

Contrary to widely-held assumptions that the project would actually see Tanzania getting into massive debt, the proponents say actually money would be brought in by investors under an agreement on how it would be recouped.

The point that Bagamoyo Port would also prevent the government from developing Dar es Salaam is rejected by proponents of the project on the grounds that going by The Tanzania Port Development Master Plan 2009-2028, the two ports (Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo) would simply complement each other.



4th generation

The former (Bagamoyo), which was meant to be ready by 2023, would specifically be built to target 4th Generation Shipbuilding Technology and therefore, not in any way a competitor for the latter (Dar es Salaam).

The concession period of 33 or 99 years, analysts say, was subject to Tanzania’s own laws and that it would be a subject of negotiations between the government and the port developers in line with how long it would take to recoup the $10 billion to be invested in the project and the global standard practice.

Sources privy to the project say in as far as ports development were concerned, the standard practice was that an investor gets between 25 to 40 years to recoup his investment depending on the amount being invested.

In fact, a 50-year period was arrived at to be the right time for investors to recoup their investment in the rail link between the UK and France.

ACT-Wazalendo party leader Zitto Kabwe shared similar sentiments, saying by cancelling the BSEZ, Tanzania was simply losing its international reputation to its strategic partners like China and Oman.

“The Bagamoyo project was a very important venture for the Chinese President’s idea of a ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. The failure of this project indicated a diplomatic weakness of our country, which is costly for the development of our country,” he says.

He is of the view that the Bagamoyo project would bring all the African cargo here in Tanzania for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line to get business and thus get the benefits of investment.

Renowned economist, Prof Samuel Wangwe, said what Tanzanian negotiators needed was to know what value addition the country wanted by developing Bagamoyo Port.

“It’s about ensuring that the development of the port complements the Dar es Salaam port,” he said. Business expert and economist, Dr Donath Olomi, said the Bagamoyo port is of paramount importance in making the country’s economy competitive.

“When you have a huge ship, costs per unit go down and so does transportation costs….We need a port that attends to large vessels to up our competitiveness going forward,” Dr Olomi told The Citizen, trashing assumptions that the Bagamoyo Port would ‘kill’ Dar es Salaam port.

He said going by the Integrated Industrial Development Strategy (2011-2025), in 2030, the Dar es Salaam port will reach its expansion limit.



Lamu and Mombasa

“Kenya is constructing the Lamu port, but they are not afraid that it will ‘kill’ the Mombasa port…Dar es Salaam port will be there attending to ships that currently dock there. It is just a matter of negotiating wisely so that finally, we can ink a contract that creates a win-win situation,” he said.



Misinformation

In April 2020, as soon as reports went out Tanzania had cancelled the project, Cheng Wang, who is a civil servant at The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, provided another perspective via a thread of eleven tweets.

He stated the $10 billion was the final investment amount invested by various investors and operators, trashing claims that there was a $10 billion deal on the port project from China alone.

The Bagamoyo port project is a tri government project between China Merchant Group and State General Reserve Fund (SGRF), Oman and Tanzania.

According to him, SGRF had no less than 10 per cent share in the project, and hence, the company was required to make investment equivalent to its share. Though he highlighted no objections with the cancellation of the project, but the amount of misinformation and manipulation associated with the project was ridiculous.

Analysts: Why Samia is right on proposed Bagamoyo Port

President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s pronouncement that the government has restarted negotiations on reviving the $10 billion Bagamoyo Port Project has prompted debate on the matter, with some...

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[Shing Yui]

Hivi hii bandari inajengwa kwa mkataba upi? Huyu mama mm nilimkataa tokea mwanzo humu,baadhi ya watu wakasema tumpe muda,narudia tena,huyu mama mm sitawahi kumkubali japo sina la kufanya,HAFAI!!!

Ndege zilinunuliwa kwa mkataba upi?
Uwanya wa chato ulijengwa kwa mkataba upi?

 

[Ntaghacha]

We fala, don't you know the difference between investment by foreigners n internal investment by the government to provide service to it's citizens?

Ndege zilinunuliwa kwa mkataba upi?
Uwanya wa chato ulijengwa kwa mkataba upi?