Rwanda, Uganda ditch Kenyan route for Tanzania to transport petroleum

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Rwanda, Uganda ditch Kenyan route for Tanzania to transport petroleum
By Macharia Kamau and Dominic Omondi
Published: May 25th 2018 at 18:03, Updated: May 25th 2018 at 18:18
The amount of petroleum products that East African countries import using the Kenyan route went down 40 per cent. This signals the growing preference for Tanzanian route by importers from Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

The value of fuel and lubricants imported into countries like Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi through Kenya’s Northern Corridor had a value of Sh815 million over the first quarter of 2018, according to the latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).

This was a 39.4 per cent decline compared to Sh1.346 billion, which was the value of petroleum products Kenya re-exported to the region in the first three months in 2017.

This could be a signal that importers to the landlocked countries are increasingly opting to go through Tanzania’s Central Corridor, which has been billed as more friendly and fast. Refined petroleum is Kenya’s third largest export product after tea and cut flowers.

Kenya has in the recent past made attempts to lure back petroleum firms importing fuel into the neighbouring countries. Last year, the Kenya Pipeline Company introduced a promotional tariff, reducing by 30 per cent the money they pay to use pipeline facilities to store and move their products through Kenya.

The pipeline operator in January said the tariff, which ran from April 2017 to earlier this year, had seen the volume of products imported through Kenya increase 20 per cent.

In a notice published in the local dailies, the ports agency reduced handling fees for a 20-foot local container at the Inland Container Depot at Embakasi to $80 (Sh8,160), down from $103 (Sh10,506).

Handling charges for a 40-feet container in transit to another country, on the other hand, were slashed from $125 (Sh12, 750) to $90 (Sh9, 180).

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Rwanda, Uganda ditch Kenyan route for Tanzania to transport petroleum

 

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Transit Oil Cargo At Dar Port Grows By 50%


By Sylivester Domasa
Dodoma — TRANSIT oil cargo through the Dar es Salaam port grew by 48.5 per cent in the first months of this year as compared to corresponding period last year.

According to the country's Petroleum Bulk Procurement Agency (PBPA) data, transit fuel shipped through the port increased by 49 per cent, thanks to efficiency and reforms at the Dar es Salaam port.

"The agency is happy to announce that it has recorded a steady growth in transit fuel since the Bulk Procurement System was established in 2015," PBPA Acting Director General Erasto Simon told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy and Minerals here over the weekend.

During the 2016/17 Financial Year, the government scrapped off Value Added Tax (VAT) on transit cargo, subsequently fuelling the volume of containers handled at the port by 35 per cent. The Dar es Salaam port is increasingly becoming the traders choice.

Minister for Energy, Dr Medard Kalemani says the volume of transit cargo shipped via the Dar es Salaam port to the landlocked countries in the eastern Africa is projected to increase threefold.

President John Magufuli launched a 421 million US dollar project mid last year, targeting to double the capacity of the port with support from the World Bank and UK's Department for International Development.

Assessment by the World Bank indicated that the port's cargo handling grew by nine per cent annually.



The new expansion being implemented by China Harbour Engineering Construction Company (CHEC) will help increase the capacity of the port to handle at least 25 million tonnes up from 13.8 million tonnes a year

.But, the Energy Minister informed parliamentarians that the state had completed renovation of an oil terminal at the Mtwara port.

The port is set to start discharging 35,000 tonnes of fuel next month. "We expect to officially launch this port, this week. Some members of the committee will be invited to join us in Mtwara," Dr Kalemani said.


The new port adds up to already existing two oil terminal ports, one being Dar es Salaam and the recently launched Tanga port with capacity to discharge 35,000 tonnes.

Observers say the revival of Mtwara port will ease the discharge of not only transit fuel to Malawi and Zambia but also for domestic use in the southern regions. It will lower the price of fuel in the areas where the petroleum products had been expensive due to transport costs.

PBPA explained that the new terminal will increase fuel availability and security in Tanzania. Even though the agency was concerned that lack of uniformed specification from Oil Marketing Companies had denied the agency a chance to undertake bulk importation of LPG (liquid petroleum gas) and HFO (Heavy fuel oil).

"I should also make it clear that, a number of local companies are not partaking in such tendering process to supply fuel as they fail to compete with other companies especially from tax free zone countries," he said.

original article on Daily News.

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Geza ngoja nikueleweshe kidogo. Kuna kipindi niliwambia kuwa Kagame anataka kuifanya Rwanda kuwa transport and logistic hub of East Africa.
Target yake kubwa ipo kati ya Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi na Congo. Anataka mizigo yote ya Southern route ipitie Rwanda. Kwenye hilo amesha anza kufanikiwa kwani Magufuli amesha ona itakuwa advantage kwa Tanzania. Kwahiyo wanashilikiana sana. Pia tambua Museveni na Kagame wanatokea kwenye clan moja ya BAHIMA.Pia nyota za wake zao )Janeti) zimeweza kuwaleta pamoja(Kagame, Magufuli, Museveni) Kwa sasa wanapika kwa kutumia chungu kimoja.

Kuzibitisha hilo kwa sasa mafuta ya Uganda kutoka Tanzania yanapitia Rwanda kwenda Uganda. Huu nimpaka wa Rwanda na Uganda, unaweza ona semi za Meru Oil zikiwa zinaenda Uganda kupitia Rwanda.
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Rwanda, Uganda ditch Kenyan route for Tanzania to transport petroleum
By Macharia Kamau and Dominic Omondi
Published: May 25th 2018 at 18:03, Updated: May 25th 2018 at 18:18
The amount of petroleum products that East African countries import using the Kenyan route went down 40 per cent. This signals the growing preference for Tanzanian route by importers from Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

The value of fuel and lubricants imported into countries like Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi through Kenya’s Northern Corridor had a value of Sh815 million over the first quarter of 2018, according to the latest data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).

This was a 39.4 per cent decline compared to Sh1.346 billion, which was the value of petroleum products Kenya re-exported to the region in the first three months in 2017.

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This could be a signal that importers to the
ndlocked countries are increasingly opting to go through Tanzania’s Central Corridor, which has been billed as more friendly and fast. Refined petroleum is Kenya’s third largest export product after tea and cut flowers.

Kenya has in the recent past made attempts to lure back petroleum firms importing fuel into the neighbouring countries. Last year, the Kenya Pipeline Company introduced a promotional tariff, reducing by 30 per cent the money they pay to use pipeline facilities to store and move their products through Kenya.

The pipeline operator in January said the tariff, which ran from April 2017 to earlier this year, had seen the volume of products imported through Kenya increase 20 per cent.

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In a notice published in the local dailies, the ports agency reduced handling fees for a 20-foot local container at the Inland Container Depot at Embakasi to $80 (Sh8,160), down from $103 (Sh10,506).

Handling charges for a 40-feet container in transit to another country, on the other hand, were slashed from $125 (Sh12, 750) to $90 (Sh9, 180).

emacharia@standardmedia.co.ke

Rwanda, Uganda ditch Kenyan route for Tanzania to transport petroleum

It is easy to transfer stuffs through our country and benefits other countries and their people.

It seems to me we are not very good in economics and how to help our people.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Geza ngoja nikueleweshe kidogo. Kuna kipindi niliwambia kuwa Kagame anataka kuifanya Rwanda kuwa transport and logistic hub of East Africa.
Target yake kubwa ipo kati ya Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi na Congo. Anataka mizigo yote ya Southern route ipitie Rwanda. Kwenye hilo amesha anza kufanikiwa kwani Magufuli amesha ona itakuwa advantage kwa Tanzania. Kwahiyo wanashilikiana sana. Pia tambua Museveni na Kagame wanatokea kwenye clan moja ya BAHIMA.Pia nyota za wake zao )Janeti) zimeweza kuwaleta pamoja(Kagame, Magufuli, Museveni) Kwa sasa wanapika kwa kutumia chungu kimoja.

Kuzibitisha hilo kwa sasa mafuta ya Uganda kutoka Tanzania yanapitia Rwanda kwenda Uganda. Huu nimpaka wa Rwanda na Uganda, unaweza ona semi za Meru Oil zikiwa zinaenda Uganda kupitia Rwanda.
Check out @Uganda_Shippers’s Tweet: Check out @TradeMarkEastA’s Tweet:

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