And Ethiopia rail which also has the same capacity as yours and is also electrified is 759KM long and was built at a cost of only $3.4 Billion.... Ambayo ni sawa tu na reli yenu ya TZ in terms of cost per km... Kawaulize wa Ethiopia wenyewe kama kati ya reli yao na ya Kenya gani ndo superior !!???? wacheni kudanganywa wadanganyika... Hivi unajua Nairobi ICD pekee iko na capacity ya 450,000 TEUs p.a wakati Dar port ya TZ inayoshughulikia mizigo ya zaidi ya nchi tano iko na capacity ya 650,000 TEUs .. Hebu tafakari hayo kwa mda.....
who built Ethiopia Railway n what design? If our SGR is poor the heavy rains that have been pouring n destroying banks of ur chinese roads n ur SGR embarkments would have destroyed our SGR! That figure for Dar port is way outdated Dar port handles way more than that may be u confused TICTS and the Dar port as a whole!
In 2015 Dar port handled 600,000 TEUs
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JULY 10, 2015 / 11:00 AM / 5 YEARS AGO
Tanzania's Dar es Salaam port to handle 25 pct more cargo in 2015: president
Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala
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DODOMA, Tanzania (Reuters) - Cargo volumes at Dar es Salaam port are expected to rise as much as 25 percent this year, helped by expanded capacity and improved efficiency, Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete said in his last address to parliament before an election in October.
The main port in Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam is seen in this aerial view file photo. REUTERS/Katrina Manson
The port, whose main rival is bigger but also congested Mombasa in Kenya, acts as a trade gateway for landlocked states such as Zambia, Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the eastern region of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
“In 2014 the port handled 14.4 tonnes of cargo ... We expect it to reach 18 million tonnes this year,” Kikwete said late on Thursday.
“The port currently operates 24 hours a day and the speed of unloading and loading cargo has significantly increased ... even those who previously stopped using the port have now returned.”
Tanzania said it wants to increase capacity to 28 million tonnes a year by 2020. The World Bank said last year that inefficiencies at Dar es Salaam cost Tanzania and its neighbours up to $2.6 billion a year.
Tanzania signed a $565 million deal last year with the World Bank and other development partners to expand the Dar es Salaam port, part of plans to boost the east African nation’s role as a regional trade hub.
Kikwete said plans to build two new berths would double the number of containers handled by the port each year to 1.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, from the current 600,000 TEUs.
“We are currently in discussions with the DRC and Zambia for a single customs territory to speed up cargo clearance at the Dar es Salaam port,” he said.
Tanzania also plans to build a new, Chinese-backed $11 billion port at Bagamoyo to make it the region’s biggest gateway and an engine of Africa’s boom.
Like its neighbour Kenya, Tanzania wants to capitalise on a long coastline and to upgrade existing rickety railways and roads to serve growing economies in the heart of Africa.
Kikwete said the government would begin construction of a standard gauge railway line this year if it secured funding to link the Dar es Salaam port to regional economies. Transport contributes 15 percent of gross domestic product in he said.
Tanzania, east Africa’s second-biggest economy, said in March it plans to spend $14.2 billion to construct a new rail network in the next five years financed with commercial loans.
Gas finds in Tanzania and oil discoveries in Kenya and Uganda have turned east Africa into an exploration hotspot for oil firms, but transport infrastructure has suffered from decades of under-investment.
Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by George Obulutsa, Larry King
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Hutchison Ports’ Tanzania International Container Terminal Services has boosted efficiency. Credit: Hutchison Ports
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Container volumes are rising and the Port of Dar es Salaam is investing, reports Felicity Landon
Records were broken again last year at Hutchison Ports’ Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS). The terminal in Dar es Salaam handled 592,000 teu, an increase of 18% on 2017.
The higher throughput can be attributed to operational improvements which increased efficiency at the port, infrastructure developments in Tanzania, and a rise in exports of copper and agricultural products, said a spokesman for TICTS.
Overall, the Port of Dar es Salaam handles up to 90% of Tanzania’s trade; it is considered the gateway not only to Tanzania, but also to eastern, central and southern Africa, serving the landlocked countries of Zambia, the DRC, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.
A major advantage for TICTS is being the only specialised container terminal operator in Tanzania, said the spokesman.
Last year also featured a monthly record for TICTS — August’s throughput was 54,447 teu. Announcing this, chief executive Jared Zerbe said: “Landlocked countries have been driving growth for TICTS as a result of significant increases in global commodity prices and the Tanzanian government’s removal of VAT on ancillary services for transit cargo.”
The terminal’s modern equipment and standards of excellence helped it to handle the volume increase, said Mr Zerbe. However, he warned that space constraints represented an acute challenge. Transit containers could not be transferred outside the port for storage prior to clearance, and this was leading to very high or maximum yard density at peak times.
TICTS was working with the government to locate alternative storage areas for transit containers. It had been appealing to the government to allow some transit cargo to be sent outside the port to inland container depots, to find more space within the port, to allow TICTS to buy or rent more space nearby or to adjust downward the grace period for transit countries to expedite cargo clearance, said Mr Zerbe.
Space allocations
There have been some developments since then, said the spokesman. Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) has provided additional space within the port and at its inland container depot at Ubungo, where TICTS transfers overstayed cargo. TPA is also developing a dry port at Ruvu, which is aiming to provide additional storage for transit cargo.
And major port infrastructure upgrades are under way. The Dar es Salaam Maritime Gateway Project, funded by a World Bank loan of $345m, will enable the port to handle post-Panamax-plus vessels and is designed to double overall throughput capacity, reduce vessel waiting time and increase operational productivity.
The first phase includes deepening and widening the entrance channel and turning basin to 15.5 metres, strengthening Berths 1 to 7 and deepening them to 14.5 metres, and building a new ro-ro/multipurpose berth at Gerezani Creek.
There are also plans to improve the rail links and facilities at the port, and then strengthen and deepen Berths 8 to 11.
A World Bank report says: “Since approximately 90% of Tanzania’s international transactions transit through the Port of Dar es Salaam, and 35% of the total throughput of the port is intended for the landlocked countries of the interior, improving the efficiency of the maritime gateway is a key element in the regional transport network.”
The development work at the port has started with the ro-ro berth at Gerezani Creek and Berth no. 1, said the TICTS spokesman.
There are no particularly notable investments to report relating to the roads to the six countries being served, he said. “All the countries are linked with tarmac or all-weather roads which are currently in good condition,” he said. “TAZARA and TRC, which provide the rail network, have not undergone major changes, with the exception of the TRC project on SGR which will link with the local networks in its first phase.”
TICTS set up an office in Rwanda, and the activities there are now being jointly coordinated with TPA, which has also opened an office in Kigali. TICTS also co-ordinates with the port authority’s regional offices in Zambia, DRC, Burundi and Uganda.
TPA is also investing at the Port of Mtwara in the far south of the country, where a new general cargo berth is being built. The 300-metre quay, with 13 metres water depth, will increase the port’s capacity by the end of 2020, says TPA.
Container volumes are rising and the Port of Dar es Salaam is investing, reports Felicity Landon
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