Ippmedia says distance from Himo to Dar is 935 km

5th April 14
New era as one-stop-post starts at Tanzania and Kenya border

Aisia Rweyemamu
One-Stop-Border Post (OSBP) means placing border officials of two adjoining countries at each other’s adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffic entering the country and not the exiting one.

Tanzania and Kenya have OSBP system at Holili –Taveta. Of late the post has produced desired results by reducing 30 per cent.

The Holili border currently serves between 40 and 50 trucks a day but the volume of traffic is likely to significantly increase up to between 400 and 450 trucks once the Voi -Taveta part of the road is upgraded. This is according to Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) that funded the project
The increase in traffic is likely because the distance by road from Mombasa to Himo junction in Tanzania is much shorter (by about 472 kilometres) compared to the much longer distance from Dar es Salaam to Himo junction (935 kilometres).

Journalists from Tanzania and Kenya who visited Holili and Taveta witnessed a handful of trucks from Mombasa port offloading goods, including the cars for clients from Northern Regions of Tanzania.

The introduced system will take place at the border post of Taveta in Kenya and Holili border post in Tanzania, of which the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Tanzania Revenue authority (TRA) are the leading agencies in implementing the project.

The OSBP project is funded by the Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) and the operation of the system to the funded area will start immediately after the signing of bilateral agreement.

At the end of lat year the media visited the project at Taveta in Kenya along the Voi road and about 285 kilometers from Mombasa. The Holili building is completed while the one for Taveta is expected to be ready by the end of May.

Theo Lymo, a Trademark Director of Integrated Boarder Management based in Nairobi said the time reduction in clearing cargo will in turn increase in intra-regional and foreign trade in East Africa.

Lymo said the main aspect of the OSBP concept is that traffic crossing the border stops once instead of stopping at the border post of exit for formalities and at the border-post of entry for entry formalities.

“One stop is achieved by placing the border officials of two adjoining countries at each other’s adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffic entering the country and not that exiting.” he elaborated

He added that exit formalities of the exit country and the entry formalities of the country are carried out at the border post in the country of entry and the Traffic to either direction will thus bypass the exit border post and go directly to the border post of entry in the other country.

The system will start as soon as bilateral agreements are signed. Tanzania has already finished with the text, and in Kenya the matter has been submitted to the cabinet for approval.

According to TMEA, OSBP projects on each side of the border are completely independent of each other. This means that OSBP arrangements can start only when construction on both sides is completed.

However, border agencies have decided that once construction on one side is completed one stop controls should start on a pilot basis.

This will enable the two countries concerned to reap the benefits of OSBP arrangements before construction on both sides is completed.

In this regard three pairs of OSBPs are expected to implement one stop arrangements by June 2014: Holili-Taveta OSBPs will be fully operational by June 2014 as construction on both sides will have been completed.

The Holili OSBP has been fully furnished: all the furniture is in place, computers have been delivered and installed with the software of the agencies concerned, and wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs) have been installed and tested.

It has been agreed with JICA that their Real Time Monitoring (RTM) and Cargo Clearing Systems, which would enable border agencies at the OSBP to share data, will be rolled out to the Holili-Taveta OSBPs following the piloting of the systems at the border posts of Namanga.

Given the poor condition of border posts in the region, the introduction of OSBPs also carry out upgrading and modernising parking for trucks and office accommodation, and provision of inspection sheds and special facilities required by border agencies, such as ramps for offloading vehicles from trucks or containers, animal holding buildings, incinerators and isolation rooms for people with notifiable diseases.

Speaking during the visit, TMEA Director of OSBP Sjorerd Visser said the project at the side of Holili, Tanzania, has been completed since December last year, costing $ 5.7 million, the same amount being spent by TMEA for Taveta-Kenya project which is in progress.

Sjored noted that TMEA is providing funding and technical support to facilitate implementation of integrated border management system jointly with border agencies.

The project focuses on setting up institutional and legal frameworks necessary for increasing collaboration in boarder management at inter-agency and bilateral levels, reviewing and implementing one stop border post procedures, training boarder agency officials and installing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks, hardware, furniture and equipment.

Integrated Border Management (IBM) is a framework for increasing collaboration among agencies responsible for border controls. The IBM framework is useful for establishing OSBPs as it lays down areas of collaboration among border agencies. It is also useful as tool for bringing together agencies with a stake in border controls.

For the OSBPs of Holili (Tanzania) and Taveta (Kenya), for example, about thirty ministries, departments and agencies are involved.

However, in a 30 minutes tour inside the Holili border post building the media personnel witnessed a number of facilities. Daniel Muturi, a Programme Manager for Integrated Boarder Management (IBM) showed media how the offices will be used by officials from both sides of the country, the same system which will be applied at the Taveta border post.

The building consist double offices for officials from Tanzania, for example, the Immigration or TRA officers and counterparts -Kenya Immigration and KRA.
Meanwhile, Mombasa –Voi- Taveta - Arusha road is one of the alternative transport corridors in East Africa that link the northern corridors at Voi,160 kilometres to the central corridor at Dodoma and Singida via Arusha.

Efficient movement of goods and people through the two border posts is critical to facilitate trade within the region.

After full implementation of OSBP arrangements or implementation on a pilot basis, a tentative survey of clearance times will be carried out, together with a user satisfaction survey.

However, the IBM project will continue for another six months to enable TMEA to support review of OSBP procedures and processes with a view to their simplification or integration where feasible. At the end of the period, a final survey of traffic and clearance times will be carried out and the project closed.

TMEA will work with border agencies and other development partners like JICA and IOM to take care of the training needs of border officials. It will support training needs assessment at border posts to establish the institutional and personal needs of border officials.

Training will include OSBP induction courses for border officials and CFAs. Border agencies have also pointed out the need for all border officials to be familiarized with the responsibilities of all border agencies and how they work at the border.

Officials agencies at the border will need short training on Microsoft applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. All officials will also benefit from training in Risk Management in cross border clearance and in security risk assessment.

Meanwhile, Traders who import goods from various countries have called up on the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) to modernise their system used in clearing cargo so as to reduce the cost incurring by traders for waiting documents from TRA.

On Tuesday, this paper interviewed a number of traders at the Holili –Taveta. They claimed they wait for up to one month for documents from TRA headquarters because of ‘slowness’ of the system used.

Emanuel Justin (36) a Moshi resident and traders who import goods via Holili –Taveta border post told this paper that, for the cargo to be released they have to wait for their documents from TRA headquarters in Dar es Salaam for clearance. Said Justin said: “But we spend a lot of time for waiting feedback and when we query why the delay they tell us to be patient because the system is down.

“We spend a lot of money to import goods for profit but instead we suffer much at the border, spend more money on accommodation… we thereby lose and this is disappointing us.”

John Vuo (33), a driver who uses Holili-Taveta boarder post expressed disappointment. “I came here on Sunday last week (March 23), I have been told to wait for government permission for my cargo to be released as they said the system is slow.”

Meanwhile some of traders have raised their concern over the cargo owners who delayed to take their cargo.
Rashid Bakari (26) told The Guardian that sometimes they wait for two weeks at the boarder for the cargo owners.

Bakari said that truck drivers did not know the owners as most of them were known by the clearing and forward agencies, adding that most of traders who importing goods used to shunting the cargo at the border.

It is so because it is expensive for the truck from outside the country to get in another country. He proposed the government should put a new law that will force the owners to shunt their cargo as in the case with Kenya.

THE GUARDIAN
http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/functions/print_article.php?l=66574

MY TAKE

This is the most bizarre thing i have ever read! Does this mean Aisia Rweyemamu can not do a fact check when writing a report? Since when Himo to Dar distance is over 900 km? If the distance from Dar to Moshi is 468 km then Distance from Moshi to Himo is 935-468 km i.e. 467km! Is this the investigative journalism Mengi claims of his media house or the report is aiming to sensitize the use of Mombasa port in place of Tanga and Dar es salaam? Can we not say this is blindly playing to the tunes of the under the belt smear tactics by Kenya upon Tanzania? yet the lie is from a largest media in the country? Can't this be stupidity of our journalists that don't crosscheck the figures and question their validity? BTW how can trademark EA make that gross mistake on a project they funded? Is that a deliberately motive to favor Mombasa port even if it means fake distances just to play in tandem with usually Kenya desperation to attract trade?

Geza Ulole said:

5th April 14
New era as one-stop-post starts at Tanzania and Kenya border

Aisia Rweyemamu
One-Stop-Border Post (OSBP) means placing border officials of two adjoining countries at each other's adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffic entering the country and not the exiting one.

Tanzania and Kenya have OSBP system at Holili –Taveta. Of late the post has produced desired results by reducing 30 per cent.

The Holili border currently serves between 40 and 50 trucks a day but the volume of traffic is likely to significantly increase up to between 400 and 450 trucks once the Voi -Taveta part of the road is upgraded. This is according to Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) that funded the project
The increase in traffic is likely because the distance by road from Mombasa to Himo junction in Tanzania is much shorter (by about 472 kilometres) compared to the much longer distance from Dar es Salaam to Himo junction (935 kilometres).

Journalists from Tanzania and Kenya who visited Holili and Taveta witnessed a handful of trucks from Mombasa port offloading goods, including the cars for clients from Northern Regions of Tanzania.

The introduced system will take place at the border post of Taveta in Kenya and Holili border post in Tanzania, of which the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Tanzania Revenue authority (TRA) are the leading agencies in implementing the project.

The OSBP project is funded by the Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) and the operation of the system to the funded area will start immediately after the signing of bilateral agreement.

At the end of lat year the media visited the project at Taveta in Kenya along the Voi road and about 285 kilometers from Mombasa. The Holili building is completed while the one for Taveta is expected to be ready by the end of May.

Theo Lymo, a Trademark Director of Integrated Boarder Management based in Nairobi said the time reduction in clearing cargo will in turn increase in intra-regional and foreign trade in East Africa.

Lymo said the main aspect of the OSBP concept is that traffic crossing the border stops once instead of stopping at the border post of exit for formalities and at the border-post of entry for entry formalities.

"One stop is achieved by placing the border officials of two adjoining countries at each other's adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffic entering the country and not that exiting." he elaborated

He added that exit formalities of the exit country and the entry formalities of the country are carried out at the border post in the country of entry and the Traffic to either direction will thus bypass the exit border post and go directly to the border post of entry in the other country.

The system will start as soon as bilateral agreements are signed. Tanzania has already finished with the text, and in Kenya the matter has been submitted to the cabinet for approval.

According to TMEA, OSBP projects on each side of the border are completely independent of each other. This means that OSBP arrangements can start only when construction on both sides is completed.

However, border agencies have decided that once construction on one side is completed one stop controls should start on a pilot basis.

This will enable the two countries concerned to reap the benefits of OSBP arrangements before construction on both sides is completed.

In this regard three pairs of OSBPs are expected to implement one stop arrangements by June 2014: Holili-Taveta OSBPs will be fully operational by June 2014 as construction on both sides will have been completed.

The Holili OSBP has been fully furnished: all the furniture is in place, computers have been delivered and installed with the software of the agencies concerned, and wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs) have been installed and tested.

It has been agreed with JICA that their Real Time Monitoring (RTM) and Cargo Clearing Systems, which would enable border agencies at the OSBP to share data, will be rolled out to the Holili-Taveta OSBPs following the piloting of the systems at the border posts of Namanga.

Given the poor condition of border posts in the region, the introduction of OSBPs also carry out upgrading and modernising parking for trucks and office accommodation, and provision of inspection sheds and special facilities required by border agencies, such as ramps for offloading vehicles from trucks or containers, animal holding buildings, incinerators and isolation rooms for people with notifiable diseases.

Speaking during the visit, TMEA Director of OSBP Sjorerd Visser said the project at the side of Holili, Tanzania, has been completed since December last year, costing $ 5.7 million, the same amount being spent by TMEA for Taveta-Kenya project which is in progress.

Sjored noted that TMEA is providing funding and technical support to facilitate implementation of integrated border management system jointly with border agencies.

The project focuses on setting up institutional and legal frameworks necessary for increasing collaboration in boarder management at inter-agency and bilateral levels, reviewing and implementing one stop border post procedures, training boarder agency officials and installing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks, hardware, furniture and equipment.

Integrated Border Management (IBM) is a framework for increasing collaboration among agencies responsible for border controls. The IBM framework is useful for establishing OSBPs as it lays down areas of collaboration among border agencies. It is also useful as tool for bringing together agencies with a stake in border controls.

For the OSBPs of Holili (Tanzania) and Taveta (Kenya), for example, about thirty ministries, departments and agencies are involved.

However, in a 30 minutes tour inside the Holili border post building the media personnel witnessed a number of facilities. Daniel Muturi, a Programme Manager for Integrated Boarder Management (IBM) showed media how the offices will be used by officials from both sides of the country, the same system which will be applied at the Taveta border post.

The building consist double offices for officials from Tanzania, for example, the Immigration or TRA officers and counterparts -Kenya Immigration and KRA.
Meanwhile, Mombasa –Voi- Taveta - Arusha road is one of the alternative transport corridors in East Africa that link the northern corridors at Voi,160 kilometres to the central corridor at Dodoma and Singida via Arusha.

Efficient movement of goods and people through the two border posts is critical to facilitate trade within the region.

After full implementation of OSBP arrangements or implementation on a pilot basis, a tentative survey of clearance times will be carried out, together with a user satisfaction survey.

However, the IBM project will continue for another six months to enable TMEA to support review of OSBP procedures and processes with a view to their simplification or integration where feasible. At the end of the period, a final survey of traffic and clearance times will be carried out and the project closed.

TMEA will work with border agencies and other development partners like JICA and IOM to take care of the training needs of border officials. It will support training needs assessment at border posts to establish the institutional and personal needs of border officials.

Training will include OSBP induction courses for border officials and CFAs. Border agencies have also pointed out the need for all border officials to be familiarized with the responsibilities of all border agencies and how they work at the border.

Officials agencies at the border will need short training on Microsoft applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. All officials will also benefit from training in Risk Management in cross border clearance and in security risk assessment.

Meanwhile, Traders who import goods from various countries have called up on the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) to modernise their system used in clearing cargo so as to reduce the cost incurring by traders for waiting documents from TRA.

On Tuesday, this paper interviewed a number of traders at the Holili –Taveta. They claimed they wait for up to one month for documents from TRA headquarters because of ‘slowness' of the system used.

Emanuel Justin (36) a Moshi resident and traders who import goods via Holili –Taveta border post told this paper that, for the cargo to be released they have to wait for their documents from TRA headquarters in Dar es Salaam for clearance. Said Justin said: "But we spend a lot of time for waiting feedback and when we query why the delay they tell us to be patient because the system is down.

"We spend a lot of money to import goods for profit but instead we suffer much at the border, spend more money on accommodation… we thereby lose and this is disappointing us."

John Vuo (33), a driver who uses Holili-Taveta boarder post expressed disappointment. "I came here on Sunday last week (March 23), I have been told to wait for government permission for my cargo to be released as they said the system is slow."

Meanwhile some of traders have raised their concern over the cargo owners who delayed to take their cargo.
Rashid Bakari (26) told The Guardian that sometimes they wait for two weeks at the boarder for the cargo owners.

Bakari said that truck drivers did not know the owners as most of them were known by the clearing and forward agencies, adding that most of traders who importing goods used to shunting the cargo at the border.

It is so because it is expensive for the truck from outside the country to get in another country. He proposed the government should put a new law that will force the owners to shunt their cargo as in the case with Kenya.

THE GUARDIAN
http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/functions/print_article.php?l=66574

MY TAKE

This is the most bizarre thing i have ever read! Does this mean Aisia Rweyemamu can not do a fact check when writing a report? Since when Himo to Dar distance is over 900 km? If the distance from Dar to Moshi is 468 km then Distance from Moshi to Himo is 935-468 km i.e. 467km! Is this the investigative journalism Mengi claims of his media house or the report is aiming to sensitize the use of Mombasa port in place of Tanga and Dar es salaam? Can we not say this is blindly playing to the tunes of the under the belt smear tactics by Kenya upon Tanzania? yet the lie is from a largest media in the country? Can't this be stupidity of our journalists that don't crosscheck the figures and question their validity? BTW how can trademark EA make that gross mistake on a project they funded? Is that a deliberately motive to favor Mombasa port even if it means fake distances just to play in tandem with usually Kenya desperation to attract trade?

Click to expand...

tuliza boli kaka.you dont payuka like that without evidence.provide thibitisho ya your figures.you didnt measure that distance yourself.to come here claiming wewe ndio uko right is crazy.umepumbazwa na kuchukia kenya kwako that everybody is wrong except you.you plain crazy, when pple dont write in support of your kenya bashing you go berserk foaming on your mouth everybody is wrong kasoro wewe.kichekesho hiki.

Kikristo kigumu nnetoka kapa.

Geza Ulole said:

5th April 14
New era as one-stop-post starts at Tanzania and Kenya border

Aisia Rweyemamu
One-Stop-Border Post (OSBP) means placing border officials of two adjoining countries at each other's adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffic entering the country and not the exiting one.

Tanzania and Kenya have OSBP system at Holili –Taveta. Of late the post has produced desired results by reducing 30 per cent.

The Holili border currently serves between 40 and 50 trucks a day but the volume of traffic is likely to significantly increase up to between 400 and 450 trucks once the Voi -Taveta part of the road is upgraded. This is according to Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) that funded the project
The increase in traffic is likely because the distance by road from Mombasa to Himo junction in Tanzania is much shorter (by about 472 kilometres) compared to the much longer distance from Dar es Salaam to Himo junction (935 kilometres).

Journalists from Tanzania and Kenya who visited Holili and Taveta witnessed a handful of trucks from Mombasa port offloading goods, including the cars for clients from Northern Regions of Tanzania.

The introduced system will take place at the border post of Taveta in Kenya and Holili border post in Tanzania, of which the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and Tanzania Revenue authority (TRA) are the leading agencies in implementing the project.

The OSBP project is funded by the Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) and the operation of the system to the funded area will start immediately after the signing of bilateral agreement.

At the end of lat year the media visited the project at Taveta in Kenya along the Voi road and about 285 kilometers from Mombasa. The Holili building is completed while the one for Taveta is expected to be ready by the end of May.

Theo Lymo, a Trademark Director of Integrated Boarder Management based in Nairobi said the time reduction in clearing cargo will in turn increase in intra-regional and foreign trade in East Africa.

Lymo said the main aspect of the OSBP concept is that traffic crossing the border stops once instead of stopping at the border post of exit for formalities and at the border-post of entry for entry formalities.

"One stop is achieved by placing the border officials of two adjoining countries at each other's adjoining border post so that each border post controls only the traffic entering the country and not that exiting." he elaborated

He added that exit formalities of the exit country and the entry formalities of the country are carried out at the border post in the country of entry and the Traffic to either direction will thus bypass the exit border post and go directly to the border post of entry in the other country.

The system will start as soon as bilateral agreements are signed. Tanzania has already finished with the text, and in Kenya the matter has been submitted to the cabinet for approval.

According to TMEA, OSBP projects on each side of the border are completely independent of each other. This means that OSBP arrangements can start only when construction on both sides is completed.

However, border agencies have decided that once construction on one side is completed one stop controls should start on a pilot basis.

This will enable the two countries concerned to reap the benefits of OSBP arrangements before construction on both sides is completed.

In this regard three pairs of OSBPs are expected to implement one stop arrangements by June 2014: Holili-Taveta OSBPs will be fully operational by June 2014 as construction on both sides will have been completed.

The Holili OSBP has been fully furnished: all the furniture is in place, computers have been delivered and installed with the software of the agencies concerned, and wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs) have been installed and tested.

It has been agreed with JICA that their Real Time Monitoring (RTM) and Cargo Clearing Systems, which would enable border agencies at the OSBP to share data, will be rolled out to the Holili-Taveta OSBPs following the piloting of the systems at the border posts of Namanga.

Given the poor condition of border posts in the region, the introduction of OSBPs also carry out upgrading and modernising parking for trucks and office accommodation, and provision of inspection sheds and special facilities required by border agencies, such as ramps for offloading vehicles from trucks or containers, animal holding buildings, incinerators and isolation rooms for people with notifiable diseases.

Speaking during the visit, TMEA Director of OSBP Sjorerd Visser said the project at the side of Holili, Tanzania, has been completed since December last year, costing $ 5.7 million, the same amount being spent by TMEA for Taveta-Kenya project which is in progress.

Sjored noted that TMEA is providing funding and technical support to facilitate implementation of integrated border management system jointly with border agencies.

The project focuses on setting up institutional and legal frameworks necessary for increasing collaboration in boarder management at inter-agency and bilateral levels, reviewing and implementing one stop border post procedures, training boarder agency officials and installing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks, hardware, furniture and equipment.

Integrated Border Management (IBM) is a framework for increasing collaboration among agencies responsible for border controls. The IBM framework is useful for establishing OSBPs as it lays down areas of collaboration among border agencies. It is also useful as tool for bringing together agencies with a stake in border controls.

For the OSBPs of Holili (Tanzania) and Taveta (Kenya), for example, about thirty ministries, departments and agencies are involved.

However, in a 30 minutes tour inside the Holili border post building the media personnel witnessed a number of facilities. Daniel Muturi, a Programme Manager for Integrated Boarder Management (IBM) showed media how the offices will be used by officials from both sides of the country, the same system which will be applied at the Taveta border post.

The building consist double offices for officials from Tanzania, for example, the Immigration or TRA officers and counterparts -Kenya Immigration and KRA.
Meanwhile, Mombasa –Voi- Taveta - Arusha road is one of the alternative transport corridors in East Africa that link the northern corridors at Voi,160 kilometres to the central corridor at Dodoma and Singida via Arusha.

Efficient movement of goods and people through the two border posts is critical to facilitate trade within the region.

After full implementation of OSBP arrangements or implementation on a pilot basis, a tentative survey of clearance times will be carried out, together with a user satisfaction survey.

However, the IBM project will continue for another six months to enable TMEA to support review of OSBP procedures and processes with a view to their simplification or integration where feasible. At the end of the period, a final survey of traffic and clearance times will be carried out and the project closed.

TMEA will work with border agencies and other development partners like JICA and IOM to take care of the training needs of border officials. It will support training needs assessment at border posts to establish the institutional and personal needs of border officials.

Training will include OSBP induction courses for border officials and CFAs. Border agencies have also pointed out the need for all border officials to be familiarized with the responsibilities of all border agencies and how they work at the border.

Officials agencies at the border will need short training on Microsoft applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. All officials will also benefit from training in Risk Management in cross border clearance and in security risk assessment.

Meanwhile, Traders who import goods from various countries have called up on the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) to modernise their system used in clearing cargo so as to reduce the cost incurring by traders for waiting documents from TRA.

On Tuesday, this paper interviewed a number of traders at the Holili –Taveta. They claimed they wait for up to one month for documents from TRA headquarters because of ‘slowness' of the system used.

Emanuel Justin (36) a Moshi resident and traders who import goods via Holili –Taveta border post told this paper that, for the cargo to be released they have to wait for their documents from TRA headquarters in Dar es Salaam for clearance. Said Justin said: "But we spend a lot of time for waiting feedback and when we query why the delay they tell us to be patient because the system is down.

"We spend a lot of money to import goods for profit but instead we suffer much at the border, spend more money on accommodation… we thereby lose and this is disappointing us."

John Vuo (33), a driver who uses Holili-Taveta boarder post expressed disappointment. "I came here on Sunday last week (March 23), I have been told to wait for government permission for my cargo to be released as they said the system is slow."

Meanwhile some of traders have raised their concern over the cargo owners who delayed to take their cargo.
Rashid Bakari (26) told The Guardian that sometimes they wait for two weeks at the boarder for the cargo owners.

Bakari said that truck drivers did not know the owners as most of them were known by the clearing and forward agencies, adding that most of traders who importing goods used to shunting the cargo at the border.

It is so because it is expensive for the truck from outside the country to get in another country. He proposed the government should put a new law that will force the owners to shunt their cargo as in the case with Kenya.

THE GUARDIAN
http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/functions/print_article.php?l=66574

MY TAKE

This is the most bizarre thing i have ever read! Does this mean Aisia Rweyemamu can not do a fact check when writing a report? Since when Himo to Dar distance is over 900 km? If the distance from Dar to Moshi is 468 km then Distance from Moshi to Himo is 935-468 km i.e. 467km! Is this the investigative journalism Mengi claims of his media house or the report is aiming to sensitize the use of Mombasa port in place of Tanga and Dar es salaam? Can we not say this is blindly playing to the tunes of the under the belt smear tactics by Kenya upon Tanzania? yet the lie is from a largest media in the country? Can't this be stupidity of our journalists that don't crosscheck the figures and question their validity? BTW how can trademark EA make that gross mistake on a project they funded? Is that a deliberately motive to favor Mombasa port even if it means fake distances just to play in tandem with usually Kenya desperation to attract trade?

Click to expand...

mombasa himo ni 299km na dar himo ni 546 km.wacha fitina kaka.

waltham said:

mombasa himo ni 299km na dar himo ni 546 km.wacha fitina kaka.

Click to expand...

Wewe ama ni mweupe kwenye hesabu au hata kutumia Google inakushinda.Soma ripoti utagundua Facts zimekuwa Skewed, Gezaulole amekuwa a bit Strong on his Language , BUT his facts are true.

Distance ya Dar Himo imekuwa over inflated.

kuna watu ni washabiki mandazi, mtu akikosea hata kupiga chafya watakuja hapa na maneno laki saba na alfu themanini


GEza kachemka mbaya aisee

krappp

Kimweri said:

Wewe ama ni mweupe kwenye hesabu au hata kutumia Google inakushinda.Soma ripoti utagundua Facts zimekuwa Skewed, Gezaulole amekuwa a bit Strong on his Language , BUT his facts are true.

Distance ya Dar Himo imekuwa over inflated.

Click to expand...

they may be exaggerated mr google expert , all he does is talk hogwash about kenya just like losers do.they cant be objective coz of what they would like to hear and see.pathetic

waltham said:

mombasa himo ni 299km na dar himo ni 546 km.wacha fitina kaka.

Click to expand...

Wewe unachobisha ni nini?
Huoni hiyo habari imepikwa? EAC ni kajanja ya makampuni binafsi kuwanyima wakulima na wafanyakazi haki yao ya kukusanya kodi na kuwazidishia wao faida. Hii jumuiya ni kiini macho, bussinessmen wana lobbying power kubwa sasa hivi, ease of access lakini bei za bidhaa zinapanda.
Wake up!!

Kobello said:

Wewe unachobisha ni nini?
Huoni hiyo habari imepikwa? EAC ni kajanja ya makampuni binafsi kuwanyima wakulima na wafanyakazi haki yao ya kukusanya kodi na kuwazidishia wao faida. Hii jumuiya ni kiini macho, bussinessmen wana lobbying power kubwa sasa hivi, ease of access lakini bei za bidhaa zinapanda.
Wake up!!

Click to expand...

i dont debate for the sake of it.what your alternative to jumuia.watu wanaongea tu ushabiki hawaelewi dunia nzima siku hizi is a global village.you cant live in isolation.you gonna cooperate with others or ur doomed.

waltham said:

i dont debate for the sake of it.what your alternative to jumuia.watu wanaongea tu ushabiki hawaelewi dunia nzima siku hizi is a global village.you cant live in isolation.you gonna cooperate with others or ur doomed.

Click to expand...

You can twist letters as much as you want.
The point here is the media trying to glorify nonsense. This report is just a piece of ---- based on exaggerations. The distance from Dar to himo is not 935km. And Mombasa is not an alternative to our Northern corridor sice the next bussiness hub is Mwanza, which is equidistant from Mombasa.

That global village ish works better with Uganda, not Tanzania.

Kobello said:

You can twist letters as much as you want.
The point here is the media trying to glorify nonsense. This report is just a piece of ---- based on exaggerations. The distance from Dar to himo is not 935km. And Mombasa is not an alternative to our Northern corridor sice the next bussiness hub is Mwanza, which is equidistant from Mombasa.

That global village ish works better with Uganda, not Tanzania.

Click to expand...

you yap all day, but your JK is not pulling out.he knows otherwise its hypocritical you yap all day long abt EAC and you cant explain why you licking boots in SADC as the weakest state used by S.A as a dumping ground.

waltham said:

tuliza boli kaka.you dont payuka like that without evidence.provide thibitisho ya your figures.you didnt measure that distance yourself.to come here claiming wewe ndio uko right is crazy.umepumbazwa na kuchukia kenya kwako that everybody is wrong except you.you plain crazy, when pple dont write in support of your kenya bashing you go berserk foaming on your mouth everybody is wrong kasoro wewe.kichekesho hiki.

Click to expand...

Akili ya kawaida inagoma ndugu yangu! Umbali kutoka Dar hadi mjini Moshi ni kilometa 562( rejea umbali wa Road Network Distance by TANROADS), hivyo utakuta umbali unaobaki ni kama kilometa 370 na ushee hivi, sawa na umbali wa Dar hadi Tanga, je ni kweli? Hapa niungane na mwenzangu kuwa na wasiwasi wa ukweli wa umbali tajwa. Itakumbukwa, mkoa wa Kilimanjaro ni kati ya mikoa mitatu bora kwa udogo nchini Tanzania ikishika nafasi ya pili, nafasi ya kwanza ni Dar es Salaam, na ya Tatu ni Mtwara. Uwezekano wa kupata stretch yenye umbali wa kilometa 370 haupo!

CHAZA said:

Akili ya kawaida inagoma ndugu yangu! Umbali kutoka Dar hadi mjini Moshi ni kilometa 562( rejea umbali wa Road Network Distance by TANROADS), hivyo utakuta umbali unaobaki ni kama kilometa 370 na ushee hivi, sawa na umbali wa Dar hadi Tanga, je ni kweli? Hapa niungane na mwenzangu kuwa na wasiwasi wa ukweli wa umbali tajwa. Itakumbukwa, mkoa wa Kilimanjaro ni kati ya mikoa mitatu bora kwa udogo nchini Tanzania ikishika nafasi ya pili, nafasi ya kwanza ni Dar es Salaam, na ya Tatu ni Mtwara. Uwezekano wa kupata stretch yenye umbali wa kilometa 370 haupo!

Click to expand...

blah blah tu za kawaida and living in fantasy becoz mombasa na kenya is mentioned.

waltham said:

i dont debate for the sake of it.what your alternative to jumuia.watu wanaongea tu ushabiki hawaelewi dunia nzima siku hizi is a global village.you cant live in isolation.you gonna cooperate with others or ur doomed.

Click to expand...

if it is about business then let it be on equal footing and not distortion the reality is Himo to Mombasa (468 km) is far than Himo to Dar (463 km) distance-wise that's the fact and what you are desperate eyeing to pull the business from Northern Tanzania won't work as the more close Tanga port is being improved! What annoys me is an institution like TMEA can make such a slumber mistake on a project that they funded! Is that a deliberate attempt by Kenyan elements in the TMEA or their stupidity on forcing things?

Geza Ulole said:

if it is about business then let it be on equal footing and not distortion the reality is Himo to Mombasa (468 km) is far than Himo to Dar (463 km) distance-wise that's the fact and what you are desperate eyeing to pull the business from Northern Tanzania won't work as the more close Tanga port is being improved! What annoys me is an institution like TMEA can make such a slumber mistake on a project that they funded! Is that a deliberate attempt by Kenyan elements in the TMEA or their stupidity on forcing things?

Click to expand...

you will be annoyed till the end of time because while you yap and yap north tz business is in kenyan hands as we prepare to take burundi and and southern DRC.what is on the groun cant be changed.pple take what makes econ sense not your type of kenya hating bash boy.and for the umpteenth time i told you the tanga port is dead.the fantasy plan you sell here abt tanga port are just that, dead.and for the record stop lying these are the distances
mombasa himo ni 299km na
dar himo ni 546 km.wacha fitina kaka.[h=1]Tanga economy suffers new blow[/h] Share Bookmark Print Email Rating
He disclosed that during the 2010/2011 fiscal year, TRA collections in the region dropped to Sh2,177,705,783.20 in 2012/2013 from the previous Sh7,475,605,558.57 in 2010/2011. He linked the drop to the ban at the port. PHOTO|FILE
By Paskasl Mbunga, The Citizen Correspondent

Posted Monday, February 10 2014 at 10:18
In Summary

• The decision, which has left four depots worth millions of shillings to stay idle, has brought agony to oil dealers in the northern zone.

Tanga. An already battered economy of the second most important coastal city of Tanzania, Tanga, has received another blow after the government banned the off-loading of petroleum products at its port imported by private oil depot owners.

The decision, which has left four depots worth millions of shillings to stay idle, has brought agony to oil dealers in the northern zone.

They now have to obtain the fuel from Dar es Salaam Port off-loaded under the bulk procurement policy.

The decision has had far reaching consequences, as over 500 people have lost their job of off-loading incoming tankers from the Middle East. The chairman of the Union of Dock Workers at the port, Mr Ali Hassan, told this reporter that some workers have been laid off.

"Petty businesses which mushroomed in and around the port area have dwindled," he claimed.

A seasoned worker with the docks, Mr Juma Selemani, was dismayed saying Tanga Region continues to suffer from strangled employment opportunities and other income generating avenues.

The Tanga Port authorities said they have lost a considerable amount of revenue following the government decision.

The port used to handle over 523,000 metric tonnes of petroleum between 2011 and 2012 before the ban came into effect in 2013.

Acting Tanga Port manager Fred Liundi said it was the petrodollar that increased the port's revenue tremendously.

Tanga TRA regional manager Juma Mahanyu asserted that though the region has lost one of its main revenue sources, the government has lost nothing in terms of revenue, because the amount to be collected has just been shifted to Dar es Salaam.

He disclosed that during the 2010/2011 fiscal year, TRA collections in the region dropped to Sh2,177,705,783.20 in 2012/2013 from the previous Sh7,475,605,558.57 in 2010/2011. He linked the drop to the ban at the port.

waltham said:

you will be annoyed till the end of time because while you yap and yap north tz business is in kenyan hands as we prepare to take burundi and and southern DRC.what is on the groun cant be changed.pple take what makes econ sense not your type of kenya hating bash boy.and for the umpteenth time i told you the tanga port is dead.the fantasy plan you sell here abt tanga port are just that, dead.and for the record stop lying these are the distances
mombasa himo ni 299km na
dar himo ni 546 km.wacha fitina kaka.Tanga economy suffers new blow

Share

Bookmark

Print

Email Rating

He disclosed that during the 2010/2011 fiscal year, TRA collections in the region dropped to Sh2,177,705,783.20 in 2012/2013 from the previous Sh7,475,605,558.57 in 2010/2011. He linked the drop to the ban at the port. PHOTO|FILE
By Paskasl Mbunga, The Citizen Correspondent

Posted Monday, February 10 2014 at 10:18
In Summary

• The decision, which has left four depots worth millions of shillings to stay idle, has brought agony to oil dealers in the northern zone.

Tanga. An already battered economy of the second most important coastal city of Tanzania, Tanga, has received another blow after the government banned the off-loading of petroleum products at its port imported by private oil depot owners.

The decision, which has left four depots worth millions of shillings to stay idle, has brought agony to oil dealers in the northern zone.

They now have to obtain the fuel from Dar es Salaam Port off-loaded under the bulk procurement policy.

The decision has had far reaching consequences, as over 500 people have lost their job of off-loading incoming tankers from the Middle East. The chairman of the Union of Dock Workers at the port, Mr Ali Hassan, told this reporter that some workers have been laid off.

"Petty businesses which mushroomed in and around the port area have dwindled," he claimed.

A seasoned worker with the docks, Mr Juma Selemani, was dismayed saying Tanga Region continues to suffer from strangled employment opportunities and other income generating avenues.

The Tanga Port authorities said they have lost a considerable amount of revenue following the government decision.

The port used to handle over 523,000 metric tonnes of petroleum between 2011 and 2012 before the ban came into effect in 2013.

Acting Tanga Port manager Fred Liundi said it was the petrodollar that increased the port's revenue tremendously.

Tanga TRA regional manager Juma Mahanyu asserted that though the region has lost one of its main revenue sources, the government has lost nothing in terms of revenue, because the amount to be collected has just been shifted to Dar es Salaam.

He disclosed that during the 2010/2011 fiscal year, TRA collections in the region dropped to Sh2,177,705,783.20 in 2012/2013 from the previous Sh7,475,605,558.57 in 2010/2011. He linked the drop to the ban at the port.

Click to expand...

still the port works and nobody is interested with Mombasa with Mwambani port development is gathering momentum! That was the oil procurement deal! If you thought one border stop is to pull trade from the Northern Tanzania then you are lost in mind and that won't happen.

waltham said:

you yap all day, but your JK is not pulling out.he knows otherwise its hypocritical you yap all day long abt EAC and you cant explain why you licking boots in SADC as the weakest state used by S.A as a dumping ground.

Click to expand...

That is yall problem!
Tanzania is not pulling out, and will not be dragged by cows.
Read between the lines .... You have got leaders that, upon leaving their posts, a lot of things will change. The whole structure of EAC will shift and we know that. Those leaders(or lemme call'em militiamen) will not leave peacefully (I am not talking about Kenya, the politics there are a bit stable bearing in mind their primitivity). And that's when the dynamics will change.

In SADC, we control the northern corridor and that's well known. Malawi, Zambia and Now Zimbabwe depends on Dar port for food and energy supply (oil) and our Gdp is bigger than theirs (almost the same with Zambia). Plus we have a bigger economy than Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. So I don't know where the "licking the boots" is coming from.

South Africans are in love with Tanzania. We can go there freely and they can come here freely. Their products are better than your Blue Band Margarines or nasty ass Kimbos that you try so hard to push over here. And if you measure the quality, ease of access and prices, they beat Kenya's and that is why they are becoming our number on trading partners.
Say what you saying, but I am very suprised that you f@kers are trying so hard to prove your superiority to us and we don't even see that!! You are wasting your time in Tanzanian blogs talking about dreamliners, oil discovery, how slow we are, your IT is superior ... ooh Nyeri or whatever the ---- has Wi-Fi WHO CARES?!

I can't imagine myself browsing Kenyan blogs .... 4what??

jamani kwani mnabishana kuhusu nini hapa?

Kobello said:

That is yall problem!
Tanzania is not pulling out, and will not be dragged by cows.
Read between the lines .... You have got leaders that, upon leaving their posts, a lot of things will change. The whole structure of EAC will shift and we know that. Those leaders(or lemme call'em militiamen) will not leave peacefully (I am not talking about Kenya, the politics there are a bit stable bearing in mind their primitivity). And that's when the dynamics will change.

In SADC, we control the northern corridor and that's well known. Malawi, Zambia and Now Zimbabwe depends on Dar port for food and energy supply (oil) and our Gdp is bigger than theirs (almost the same with Zambia). Plus we have a bigger economy than Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho. So I don't know where the "licking the boots" is coming from.

South Africans are in love with Tanzania. We can go there freely and they can come here freely. Their products are better than your Blue Band Margarines or nasty ass Kimbos that you try so hard to push over here. And if you measure the quality, ease of access and prices, they beat Kenya's and that is why they are becoming our number on trading partners.
Say what you saying, but I am very suprised that you f@kers are trying so hard to prove your superiority to us and we don't even see that!! You are wasting your time in Tanzanian blogs talking about dreamliners, oil discovery, how slow we are, your IT is superior ... ooh Nyeri or whatever the ---- has Wi-Fi WHO CARES?!

I can't imagine myself browsing Kenyan blogs .... 4what??

Click to expand...

thats the noise of a looser.you can smell the bitterness.hate the message boy not the messager.you talk of S.A that S.A this.kaka brag abt TZ unless there is nothing to, which seems to be the case here.show us the numbers.you are no. 1 dumping ground for s.a, thats the biggest trading partner ua mentioning and to remind you kenya is overtaking china and usa in investments in TZ.oh another thing kenya is the biggest non mineral based econ in Africa kaka.tz will always lick S.A boots in SADC.the econ worlds for the two ni kama giza na mwangaza

Geza Ulole said:

still the port works and nobody is interested with Mombasa with Mwambani port development is gathering momentum! That was the oil procurement deal! If you thought one border stop is to pull trade from the Northern Tanzania then you are lost in mind and that won't happen.

Click to expand...

happy dreaming mr. dreamer.mungu atufikishe mwaka kesho hiyo tanga port labda itafufuka