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Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
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Mimi hua sipitii tena manake hakuna jipya tena huku... Na ni kweli manake nimerudi najaribu kuangalia angalia lakini sioni jipya ni kama tu mko pale pale.. na sisi huku kwetu tushazoea maisha ya SGR kwetu si jambo jipya tena, its not even news the SGR Ke is running smoothly, no hiccups... nothing to report home about... we are oncourse to do 5.5Million tonnes this year.. All the pictures that can be taken have been taken and posted... We moved on to new obsessions like the Nairobi Expressway but hata hio nimeshachoka nayo zitaki kuona picha nyegine tena... Labda kukitokea jambo jipya kwa SGR ke ndo utatuona tunarudi tena kupost kila siku..
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Hata nyinyi huko Tanzania itafika wakati mtachoka na picha za SGR yenu, mwanzo ukishaipanda mara kama tatu hivi, utaacha kujipiga ma selfy itakua imekua jambo la kawaida tu kama wale walio na uzoefu wa kupanda ndege.
Kumbuka Kenya tumekua na functioning SGR kwa miaka 4 sasa, ile 'high' ya kutaka kujua kila kitu cha SGR yetu iliisha, sasa kuona double-stack wagon ni normal kwetu, no big deal...
Ama kuona maelfu ya makontena yakipakiwa na kupakuliwa kwa dry port, si habari za kupost kwa forum tena manake nishawai post nyengine kama hizi mwaka uliopita, nothing new, just a different day.
Kumbuka Kenya tumekua na functioning SGR kwa miaka 4 sasa, ile 'high' ya kutaka kujua kila kitu cha SGR yetu iliisha, sasa kuona double-stack wagon ni normal kwetu, no big deal...
Ama kuona maelfu ya makontena yakipakiwa na kupakuliwa kwa dry port, si habari za kupost kwa forum tena manake nishawai post nyengine kama hizi mwaka uliopita, nothing new, just a different day.
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Huyu anafanya nn? MMI Steel Tanzania, MMI Steel Uganda, MMI Steel Mozambique and MMI Steel Zambia?Wacha ujinga eti the only in the region!
Role of TAZARA in regional integration
- Post published:November 15, 2021
OVER five decades ago, Zambia and Tanzania embarked on an ambitious project with the help of China to put up a railway line covering 1,860 kilometres from Kapiri Mposhi to the Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The principal rationale for what naysayers deemed impracticable was to ease trade between Zambia and the outside world through Dar es Salaam due to the country’s non-coastal location. Primarily, the idea was mooted to facilitate export of Zambia’s copper to China and other countries, but today a diversity of goods for various enterprises are shipped to and from foreign markets on Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) iconic infrastructure. One such company which habitually uses TAZARA for transportation of its merchandise is MMI Steel Integrated Mills Limited of Lusaka which specialises in packaging solutions, civil engineering, retail and industrial services, as well as steel products. The company also offers construction materials and associated services, and produces chemicals, among other goods. Most supplies the company yields are ferried to various markets within and beyond the borders of Zambia by railway line of the co-owned TAZARA. Since inception of the business, TAZARA has been a reliable haulier of goods produced by MMI Integrated Steel and Mills Limited.
“TAZARA’s service is good, we do not have any complaint against the company in the over eight years we have been dealing with it. “We move our goods from Dar es Salaam to Lusaka. The goods are moved from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi and then to Lusaka via Zambia Railways Limited,” company manager Sudhansu Singh says. Rail, Mr Singh says, is the ideal mode of shipping goods for his firm and will continue relying on the services of TAZARA as long as the steal firm exists. Besides MMI Integrated Steel and Mills Limited is Calabash Freight Limited, a rail logistics enterprise which soothes the budding demand for freight solutions in Africa.
Calabash Freight, which plies its trade in Zambia and Tanzania, boasts of an international structural partnership on the African continent spanning three decades of rail freight experience. The services it offers include full logistical solutions through a strong engineering background in conformity with the mantra of helping catapult the continent’s growth. Its principal objective is to be a value-adding partner of TAZARA and Zambia Railways Limited by increasing their transport rolling stock, thus providing effective rail solutions to regional clients.
According to calabashfreight.com, the company has a burgeoning footprint across Zambia, Tanzania and some parts of Democratic Republic of Congo. Its services include a full integrated intermodel solution between Zambia and Tanzania covering warehouse, loading and offloading, locomotives and rolling stock, as well as port facilities. Railway transport undoubtedly expedites diverse activities such as trade, tourism, travel and movement of goods and services over lengthier distances. Since its establishment, TAZARA has
Motisun: supplying a diverse business portfolio in Africa
View Full ReportMotisun Group has grown to become one of Tanzania and Africa’s dominant conglomerates, achieving stellar growth and diversification...
The port of Dar es Salaam, the ‘haven of peace’, is the gateway to eastern, central and southern Africa. The former Tanzanian capital has an international airport, and rail links to the landlocked nations, including the Chinese-funded TAZARA linking it with Zambia’s Copper Belt and a planned 2,190-km railway to Rwanda,
Burundi and the DRC. It is expanding to rival Mombasa and Djibouti as the country develops its industry and the port acclimatizes with the demand for container and bulk mineral export capacity.
Tanzania is not being left behind in Africa’s internet transformation. Dar es Salaam is connected to the rest of the world by all the major undersea cables that have been laid in recent years, including SEACOM and the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy). Other deepwater ports such as Pangani, Mtwara and Bagamoyo are being developed to take the pressure from Dar es Salaam and provide access for Panamax vessels.
This vibrant city has been home to the Motisun Group since it was founded in 1992 by Subhash Patel. And, though it has grown to rank among the strongest business groups on the continent, it remains a family concern.
It started with a small-scale steel plant with a single induction furnace and rolling mill, but today MMI Steel Mills produces more than 200,000MT of steel a year. However, steel is only one of many products the group produces. It also manufactures paints, pipe, beverages and juices sold under the Sayona brand, as well as cabling and plastic products of all kinds, distributing them throughout Tanzania and exporting them to all African markets. It manufactures locally in some of those markets. More recently, Motisun Group has been able to diversify into hospitality, hotels, resorts and real estate.
A glance at the diversity of interests reveals a complex logistics and supply chain network. Key to the smooth running and cost management of this network is the procurement department. Manoj Kumar is Head of Global Procurement for Motisun, oversees this vital part of the business from his office in Dar es Salaam and manages a team of procurement professionals there in each of the businesses.
The businesses are very diverse, he says. “Under the Sayona brand, we diverse range of juices, carbonated soft drinks and packaged drinking water, and we started going into pure fruit juices, which are produced at state of the art a new plant on a 40-acre site in the Mboga area, Bagamoyo, which is 150 km from Dar es Salaam.” The juices are prepared using fresh fruit sourced from Tanzania, and the beauty of this product is that fresh fruit of the highest quality, such as mangos, pineapple, Guava and Orange is available across Africa.
If raw materials for Sayona products are comparatively simple and reliable to source, the supply chain for the paints produced under the Kiboko brand is somewhat more complex. Only 30% of finished goods are imported, the rest is manufactured in high-capacity factories, backed by an in-house resin & emulsion manufacturing plant. The Kiboko division can produce 50 tons of top-quality paint a day to satisfy the 60% share of the Tanzanian market that Kiboko holds. Packaging and labelling are manufactured at a separate facility. The onward supply chain relies upon stockists with warehouses all over Tanzania, from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza and Arusha to Mtwara. No area is too remote.
“We have over 5,000 global suppliers in our supply chain,” Kumar continues. Chemicals for the factories are sourced via Dubai,South Africa, the USA and Europe, while much of the steel required by MIIT’s plants comes from India. Accurate forecasting is required to keep costs in check and avoid waste. In the context of Africa it is often not possible to achieve just-in-time sequencing of materials.
Sometime delays at the port congestion, fluctuations in availability and disruptions to the road and rail systems have to be factored in with the rise and fall of demand, making it necessary to store enough raw materials at the plants to ensure continuity of production. “Forecasting and planning always depend on market conditions,” says Kumar. “It’s a kind of rear-view mirror approach, in that where you’ve been can often help determine where you’re going; but that does not necessarily help you avoid a multiple car accident on the freeway. However, forecasting gives manufacturing companies a leg-up on these elements of planning and production cycles, companies can operate with more agility, transparency, and flexibility to adapt to changing production environments or schemes.”
Lead times are dependent on the location of the suppliers, he continues. Goods from Canada can take 90 days by sea, whereas from Mumbai the time from dispatch to clearance would be around 40 days. With reliable road and rail links, importing from South Africa is much easier. “Coordinating supply to a particular plant requires a backup plan that includes a number of pre-approved suppliers. Any disruption in availability will disrupt the entire supply chain.”
Kumar stresses that there’s real partnership between Motisun Group and its suppliers. “Many of our vendors have been in place since the company was founded, however the supply chain becomes more diverse as the product portfolio is extended, which happens almost daily.” The core software platforms in use within the group are SAP and the versatile Tally ERP, originating in India. A phased programme of migration is in place as individual businesses integrate legacy programmes and Excel-based practices. “With Tally’s accounting application we can manage our accounts, warehouse management inventory management and other key procurement functions,” explains Kumar, adding that parts of the business are still used to the familiar Excel for budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. During the migration period, it is easy to import and export cash management information and financial data to and from Tally.
It is very exciting, though challenging, to be part of a continually expanding group that dominates the East African market in a number of key verticals, says Kumar. “Our Chairman, Subhash Patel, has a simple mantra: there are three ‘Ms’ at the core of any successful business, Money, Mindset and Manpower. Our people find this a great way to focus our minds on our work. Clearly no business can survive without having a firm hand on its finances; then it has to have a clear vision and finally a committed and competent workforce.” Patel is a person of vision, retaining his humility and empathy, despite being a figure of huge influence in Tanzania and the wider African business world, Kumar acknowledges. Under his leadership the group is constantly diversifying and adding new products to the existing divisions. Kumar and his team are fully equipped to accept the challenge of keeping these supplied with the materials they need.
Motisun: supplying a diverse business portfolio in Africa
Motisun Group has grown to become one of Tanzania and Africa’s dominant conglomerates, achieving stellar growth and diversification...
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Nowhere in your long post is it stated that they make steel from raw iron ore... All it says it that you produce steel... most likely they import iron rods, coils, rolls and metal sheets from outside then they smelt or shape them under various temperatures to make other products, same thing that has been happening with Kenyan steel plants over the years..Huyu anafanya nn? MMI Steel Tanzania, MMI Steel Uganda, MMI Steel Mozambique and MMI Steel Zambia?Wacha ujinga eti the only in the region!
Role of TAZARA in regional integration
VIOLET MENGO, Kapiri Mposhi
- Post published:November 15, 2021
OVER five decades ago, Zambia and Tanzania embarked on an ambitious project with the help of China to put up a railway line covering 1,860 kilometres from Kapiri Mposhi to the Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The principal rationale for what naysayers deemed impracticable was to ease trade between Zambia and the outside world through Dar es Salaam due to the country’s non-coastal location. Primarily, the idea was mooted to facilitate export of Zambia’s copper to China and other countries, but today a diversity of goods for various enterprises are shipped to and from foreign markets on Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) iconic infrastructure. One such company which habitually uses TAZARA for transportation of its merchandise is MMI Steel Integrated Mills Limited of Lusaka which specialises in packaging solutions, civil engineering, retail and industrial services, as well as steel products. The company also offers construction materials and associated services, and produces chemicals, among other goods. Most supplies the company yields are ferried to various markets within and beyond the borders of Zambia by railway line of the co-owned TAZARA. Since inception of the business, TAZARA has been a reliable haulier of goods produced by MMI Integrated Steel and Mills Limited.
“TAZARA’s service is good, we do not have any complaint against the company in the over eight years we have been dealing with it. “We move our goods from Dar es Salaam to Lusaka. The goods are moved from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi and then to Lusaka via Zambia Railways Limited,” company manager Sudhansu Singh says. Rail, Mr Singh says, is the ideal mode of shipping goods for his firm and will continue relying on the services of TAZARA as long as the steal firm exists. Besides MMI Integrated Steel and Mills Limited is Calabash Freight Limited, a rail logistics enterprise which soothes the budding demand for freight solutions in Africa.
Calabash Freight, which plies its trade in Zambia and Tanzania, boasts of an international structural partnership on the African continent spanning three decades of rail freight experience. The services it offers include full logistical solutions through a strong engineering background in conformity with the mantra of helping catapult the continent’s growth. Its principal objective is to be a value-adding partner of TAZARA and Zambia Railways Limited by increasing their transport rolling stock, thus providing effective rail solutions to regional clients.
According to calabashfreight.com, the company has a burgeoning footprint across Zambia, Tanzania and some parts of Democratic Republic of Congo. Its services include a full integrated intermodel solution between Zambia and Tanzania covering warehouse, loading and offloading, locomotives and rolling stock, as well as port facilities. Railway transport undoubtedly expedites diverse activities such as trade, tourism, travel and movement of goods and services over lengthier distances. Since its establishment, TAZARA has
Motisun: supplying a diverse business portfolio in Africa
View Full Report
Motisun Group has grown to become one of Tanzania and Africa’s dominant conglomerates, achieving stellar growth and diversification...
The port of Dar es Salaam, the ‘haven of peace’, is the gateway to eastern, central and southern Africa. The former Tanzanian capital has an international airport, and rail links to the landlocked nations, including the Chinese-funded TAZARA linking it with Zambia’s Copper Belt and a planned 2,190-km railway to Rwanda,
Burundi and the DRC. It is expanding to rival Mombasa and Djibouti as the country develops its industry and the port acclimatizes with the demand for container and bulk mineral export capacity.
Tanzania is not being left behind in Africa’s internet transformation. Dar es Salaam is connected to the rest of the world by all the major undersea cables that have been laid in recent years, including SEACOM and the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy). Other deepwater ports such as Pangani, Mtwara and Bagamoyo are being developed to take the pressure from Dar es Salaam and provide access for Panamax vessels.
This vibrant city has been home to the Motisun Group since it was founded in 1992 by Subhash Patel. And, though it has grown to rank among the strongest business groups on the continent, it remains a family concern.
It started with a small-scale steel plant with a single induction furnace and rolling mill, but today MMI Steel Mills produces more than 200,000MT of steel a year. However, steel is only one of many products the group produces. It also manufactures paints, pipe, beverages and juices sold under the Sayona brand, as well as cabling and plastic products of all kinds, distributing them throughout Tanzania and exporting them to all African markets. It manufactures locally in some of those markets. More recently, Motisun Group has been able to diversify into hospitality, hotels, resorts and real estate.
A glance at the diversity of interests reveals a complex logistics and supply chain network. Key to the smooth running and cost management of this network is the procurement department. Manoj Kumar is Head of Global Procurement for Motisun, oversees this vital part of the business from his office in Dar es Salaam and manages a team of procurement professionals there in each of the businesses.
The businesses are very diverse, he says. “Under the Sayona brand, we diverse range of juices, carbonated soft drinks and packaged drinking water, and we started going into pure fruit juices, which are produced at state of the art a new plant on a 40-acre site in the Mboga area, Bagamoyo, which is 150 km from Dar es Salaam.” The juices are prepared using fresh fruit sourced from Tanzania, and the beauty of this product is that fresh fruit of the highest quality, such as mangos, pineapple, Guava and Orange is available across Africa.
If raw materials for Sayona products are comparatively simple and reliable to source, the supply chain for the paints produced under the Kiboko brand is somewhat more complex. Only 30% of finished goods are imported, the rest is manufactured in high-capacity factories, backed by an in-house resin & emulsion manufacturing plant. The Kiboko division can produce 50 tons of top-quality paint a day to satisfy the 60% share of the Tanzanian market that Kiboko holds. Packaging and labelling are manufactured at a separate facility. The onward supply chain relies upon stockists with warehouses all over Tanzania, from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza and Arusha to Mtwara. No area is too remote.
“We have over 5,000 global suppliers in our supply chain,” Kumar continues. Chemicals for the factories are sourced via Dubai,South Africa, the USA and Europe, while much of the steel required by MIIT’s plants comes from India. Accurate forecasting is required to keep costs in check and avoid waste. In the context of Africa it is often not possible to achieve just-in-time sequencing of materials.
Sometime delays at the port congestion, fluctuations in availability and disruptions to the road and rail systems have to be factored in with the rise and fall of demand, making it necessary to store enough raw materials at the plants to ensure continuity of production. “Forecasting and planning always depend on market conditions,” says Kumar. “It’s a kind of rear-view mirror approach, in that where you’ve been can often help determine where you’re going; but that does not necessarily help you avoid a multiple car accident on the freeway. However, forecasting gives manufacturing companies a leg-up on these elements of planning and production cycles, companies can operate with more agility, transparency, and flexibility to adapt to changing production environments or schemes.”
Lead times are dependent on the location of the suppliers, he continues. Goods from Canada can take 90 days by sea, whereas from Mumbai the time from dispatch to clearance would be around 40 days. With reliable road and rail links, importing from South Africa is much easier. “Coordinating supply to a particular plant requires a backup plan that includes a number of pre-approved suppliers. Any disruption in availability will disrupt the entire supply chain.”
Kumar stresses that there’s real partnership between Motisun Group and its suppliers. “Many of our vendors have been in place since the company was founded, however the supply chain becomes more diverse as the product portfolio is extended, which happens almost daily.” The core software platforms in use within the group are SAP and the versatile Tally ERP, originating in India. A phased programme of migration is in place as individual businesses integrate legacy programmes and Excel-based practices. “With Tally’s accounting application we can manage our accounts, warehouse management inventory management and other key procurement functions,” explains Kumar, adding that parts of the business are still used to the familiar Excel for budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. During the migration period, it is easy to import and export cash management information and financial data to and from Tally.
It is very exciting, though challenging, to be part of a continually expanding group that dominates the East African market in a number of key verticals, says Kumar. “Our Chairman, Subhash Patel, has a simple mantra: there are three ‘Ms’ at the core of any successful business, Money, Mindset and Manpower. Our people find this a great way to focus our minds on our work. Clearly no business can survive without having a firm hand on its finances; then it has to have a clear vision and finally a committed and competent workforce.” Patel is a person of vision, retaining his humility and empathy, despite being a figure of huge influence in Tanzania and the wider African business world, Kumar acknowledges. Under his leadership the group is constantly diversifying and adding new products to the existing divisions. Kumar and his team are fully equipped to accept the challenge of keeping these supplied with the materials they need.
Motisun: supplying a diverse business portfolio in Africa
Motisun Group has grown to become one of Tanzania and Africa’s dominant conglomerates, achieving stellar growth and diversification...
Anyway, hio ni side show, the real picture here is that this is the 2nd largest steel plant of its kind in Africa! It can supply the importation needs of the whole of East Africa... no longer do other steel plants need to import coils or rods from outside east Africa like this 👇🏾
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Hakuna jipya 2 lots of SGR Kunyaland vs 5 lot of electrical SGR Tanzania? While TAZARA is getting revamped and Uvinza-Musongati-Gitega-Kindu elctrical SGR (lot 6) about to be launched! Man u r salty...
Karema Tanzania-Kalemie DRC ports agreement
Na hata hii ya MGR hujaona?
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In China
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Like I said, hakuna lolote jipya.... call me when you have been in operation for atleast 6 months, then we can talk.
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Kenya Shipyards Limited (Kampuni ya KDF ya kuunda meli) yaisaidia Kenya Railways kuunda mabogi mapya yatakayotumika kwa MGR.
https://t.co/GK7IOSQl21
https://t.co/GK7IOSQl21
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is now the third largest market for the Port of Mombasa with a market share of 8.2 percent.
@ogefrem
#DRCDelegation https://t.co/eVeEiQ4cYw
To cement their position, Lignes Maritimes Congolaises – DRC government owned shipping line began operations in Mombasa in June this year becoming the latest entrant to Mombasa. https://t.co/HWheuanH7U
The DRC delegation extended its tour to the Inland Container Depot Nairobi to appreciate the facility which is a game changer in the transport sector and plays a crucial role in the effective movement of cargo locally and to the transit markets
@ogefrem
@MsaPortCharter https://t.co/iyQHgiIOxa
The team was impressed with the seamless intermodal transfer of cargo from Mombasa to ICD Nairobi via SGR and final evacuation through the highly efficient Smart Gates.
The Inland Container Depot, which was recently upgraded, now has an annual capacity of 450,000 TEUs. https://t.co/jw8zkWpyW3
@ogefrem
#DRCDelegation https://t.co/eVeEiQ4cYw
To cement their position, Lignes Maritimes Congolaises – DRC government owned shipping line began operations in Mombasa in June this year becoming the latest entrant to Mombasa. https://t.co/HWheuanH7U
The DRC delegation extended its tour to the Inland Container Depot Nairobi to appreciate the facility which is a game changer in the transport sector and plays a crucial role in the effective movement of cargo locally and to the transit markets
@ogefrem
@MsaPortCharter https://t.co/iyQHgiIOxa
The team was impressed with the seamless intermodal transfer of cargo from Mombasa to ICD Nairobi via SGR and final evacuation through the highly efficient Smart Gates.
The Inland Container Depot, which was recently upgraded, now has an annual capacity of 450,000 TEUs. https://t.co/jw8zkWpyW3
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