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Kuna haja ya kuangalia uwezekano wa kutumia umeme badala ya diesel. Kama utapatikana umeme wa SGR basi na TAZARA Iwekewe umeme nayo kuondoa kupelea pesa nje ya nchi za kununua mafuta.TAZARA launches hi-tech cargo, train information system
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09 May 2018
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TANZANIA-ZAMBIA Railway Authority (TAZARA) has launched Freight Management and Information System that enables customers to track their cargo from origin to final destination just by using their smart phones.
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With the new modern hightech initiative, Tanzania is now becoming the first in East and Central Africa to have the technology, according to TAZARA Regional Manager Fuad Abdallah.
The system was officially launched at TAZARA headquarters in Dar es Salaam, with the Minister of Works, Transport and Communication, Professor Makame Mbarawa officiating. According to Mr Abdallah, the new project is dedicated to transportation and cargo flow management performance by introducing location-based Transportation Management System (TMS) to main freight routes in Tanzania- Zambia economies.
“The authority is also able to view all train details, including total number of wagons attached in, load and unload status, origin and destination stations, train total weight, length, item description, total invoice cost, train current position and status,’’ he said.
Mr Abdallah who was demonstrating to the minister how the new system operates, said TAZARA will also be able to track locomotive fuel consumption for individual driver with the actual distance covered and that the fuel consumption records can be viewed in a range of dates specified.
“We can view all invoice details including consignee, loading and offloading date, origin and destination stations, item description, cost and status,’’ he added. In his directives to TAZARA, Prof Mbarawa asked the management to be cautious on unscrupulous officials to avoid sabotage of the system through tampering.
Apart from commissioning the advanced cargo informationSYSTEM, the minister launched two refurbished mainline locomotives that were not operating after they broke down following an accident and ten hopper wagons that remained dormant due to accident for ten years.
According to Prof Mbarawa, the government decided to refurbish the ten wagons at Mbeyabased TAZARA workshop at 167m/-, saving about 17bn/- that could have been spent in procurement of the ten brand new wagons.
Meanwhile, the minister directed TAZARA Managing Director Bruno Chingandu to look on the possibilities of reducing the number of top managers to trim down operational costs spent in their salaries and other stipends.
He said there were between 10 and 15 top bosses who actually perform duties that can be done by six people. “You need to look on mechanisms to reduce untenable expenditures so that you can use the money to implement other important projects, including purchase of locomotives,’’ he said.
Earlier, TAZARA MD said the performance of his authority had improved tremendously with transit time reduced from over 30 days to between five and seven days. Tonnage has also increased by 94 per cent, he said, adding that the authority was now contributing to state coffers through payment of various taxes and other legal obligations.
TAZARA launches hi-tech cargo, train information system
Umeongea point sana mkuu,Kuna haja ya kuangalia uwezekano wa kutumia umeme badala ya diesel. Kama utapatikana umeme wa SGR basi na TAZARA Iwekewe umeme nayo kuondoa kupelea pesa nje ya nchi za kununua mafuta.
Wewe nawe post zako hapa ni za articles za kijingajinga tu? Tuwekee picha tuone wapi the only cargo bullet train in the world imefika.FROM MAGAZINE: Rwanda sets sight to become Africa's logistics hub
Landlocked Rwanda has ambitious plans to be a tech-savvy logistics hub in Africa. With a growing regional economy and innovative infrastructure transactions such as the Kigali Logistics Platform, the new airport construction and proposed SGR, the potential exists for significant change, Surya Kannothreports.
Rwanda has transitioned from suffering one of history’s worst genocides in 1994 to becoming one of the fastest-growing economies on the continent. The country now wants to establish itself as a business and technological hub of Africa. By attracting more foreign investment, Rwanda is also looking to wean itself from foreign aid, which accounts for almost 40 percent of its annual budget.
China, one of its early investors, has made significant investments into the country. Cooperation between the two nations has grown significantly in recent years and it was further boosted by President Xi Jinping’s pledge of $60 billion to Africa under the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in December 2015.
In 2016, Dubai-based port operator DP World was granted a 25-year concession to develop and operate a new logistics centre in Kigali, Rwanda. Rwanda aims to enhance the country’s logistics industry to support the export of products for regional and international markets. The DP World Kigali Logistics Centre is expected to significantly contribute to the development of this strategy.
The DP World Kigali Logistics project is a greenfield concession agreement. The first phase will be built on 90,000 sqm (969,000 sq ft) with a 12,000 sqm (129,000 sq ft) container yard and a 19,600 sqm (211,000 sq ft) warehousing facility. Estimated annual capacity is 50,000 TEUs and 640,000 tonnes of warehousing space. Total project cost is estimated at $35 million, and further development will be phased in line with demand growth.
The first phase of the construction of a $35 million inland container logistics centre is currently underway on a 30-hectare plot of land in eastern Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The completed facility will offer warehousing, truck parking, a container yard and other auxiliary services. It is also expected to improve the flow of goods for both regional and international markets.
The project is one of the first competitively tendered PPPs to close in Rwanda, and the first logistics project of its kind in Africa. Rwanda will benefit from the establishment of a world class logistics facility that will increase the efficiency of its trade routes from and to the surrounding countries of Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi and the central African region, but the government will only cover a limited amount of the cost while receiving a concession fee from DP World.
Rwanda is now building a new airport at Begusera International Airport (BIA) in the eastern province. The new airport is being built to handle the rising air traffic in the country, as well as bolster intra-African travel, investment and business.
China was looking forward to start works on a new road linking Kigali to the proposed Bugesera airport, which is currently under construction. Reportedly, slated for completion by December 2018, the first phase of the construction will cost $418 million and increase the airport’s annual passenger handling capacity to 1.8 million. During the second phase, which is valued at $400 million, a wide range of extension works will be carried out at the airport.
On the rail front, the governments of Tanzania and Rwanda have commissioned a feasibility study into electrification of the long-planned 521 km cross-border rail link between Isaka and Kigali. The line is intended to connect the landlocked countries of Rwanda and Burundi with the inland container terminal at Isaka in Tanzania, which is linked to Dar es Salaam by an existing metre gauge line. Currently, around 80 percent of Rwanda’s international trade passes through Tanzania, although a rail link running north through Uganda is also on the cards.
In March 2018, the transport ministers of the two countries agreed to establish a Project Implementation Unit to oversee construction, which is expected to begin later this year under the terms of a bilateral agreement signed by Rwandan president Paul Kagame and Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli in January.
According to Rwanda’s minister of state for transport Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye, the electrification study will be overseen by the Rwanda Transport Development Agency and the Joint Technical Monitoring Committee. Electric operation would reduce the railway’s environmental impact as well as permitting higher speeds; passenger trains would be able to operate at up to 160 km/h instead of 120 km/h, while freight trains could be accelerated from 80 km/h to 120 km/h.
FROM MAGAZINE: Rwanda sets sight to become Africa's logistics hub | Logistics
One year later not even one picture.. bongolalasWith my esteem pleasure n reserved demeanor since many Kenyans have turned to be "doubting Thomases" on Tanzania's capability to undertake the project especially on whether phase I n II of 5 phases are currently U/C, i have chosen to open up this thread to just give you people an insight of what is happening on day and night to make sure the line gets to Mwanza and of course to Isaka, Bujumbura n Kampala.
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yao ikifika over 100 inafanya vibration kwasabbau reli yao ni bolt jointed na sio continious weldedNa mimi naomba ku uliza hivi ya Kenya maximum ni 120km/hr ndo ivo mwathadan?
ni swali dogo sana ikiwa kwenye flat land itakwenda over 180km/hr inamaana max speed itakua above 240km/hrHaya ningependa kujua max speed
Saa zingine unapenda kujadili hoja kijinga sana hadi mtu anajiuliza kama umekayanga shule wewe.....ni swali dogo sana ikiwa kwenye flat land itakwenda over 180km/hr inamaana max speed itakua above 240km/hr
Yap I think drainage system.What are they doing here?
Is that concrete?
100% true. Wanaposema 180 km% ina maana train inaweza kwenda hadi 240%ni swali dogo sana ikiwa kwenye flat land itakwenda over 180km/hr inamaana max speed itakua above 240km/hr
Hapa ni wapi mkuu ??
Huo ndoukweli. Ingia google.Saa zingine unapenda kujadili hoja kijinga sana hadi mtu anajiuliza kama umekayanga shule wewe.....
Ala umekuwa engineer?yao ikifika over 100 inafanya vibration kwasabbau reli yao ni bolt jointed na sio continious welded
Drainage system yenyewe itabebwa na maji. It's such low quality. How dare you compare that thing with Kenya's sgr?Yap I think drainage system.