Tanzania omits Kenya from preferential transport deal

[Geza Ulole]

Tanzania omits Kenya from preferential transport deal
By Lee Mwiti
Published: Mar 3rd 2018 at 00:01, Updated: March 3rd 2018 at 00:01

Clearing agents at Namanga town in Kajiado County, barricade the road in protest. The more than 100 agents were protesting what they termed as police harassment while on duty. They appealed to the relevant authorities to intervene. Transport at the border paralyzed for more than two hours before police intervened. [photo/PETERSON GITHAIGA]
Kenya has been left out of a new deal brokered by Tanzania that seeks to lower cross-border charges on trucks ferrying goods across the borders.

The deal announced by the Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CCTTFA) will see Ugandan and Burundian trucks that cross Tanzanian borders charged $152 (Sh15,397) from $500 (Sh50,165) that was charged before.

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Kenyan trucks have been excluded from the deal.

CCTTFA Executive Secretary Dieudonne Dukundane said during a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) capacity building workshop in Arusha that cross-border charges have been a huge impediment to free flow of trade and need to be harmonised.

“The three countries of Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi have agreed to lower these charges,” Mr Dukundane told Tanzanian daily, The Citizen.

“We have an agreement to harmonise the cross-border charges and in fact, a transit truck pays only $152, down from $500 to pass through Tanzanian borders,” he added.

CCTTFA is tasked with easing cross-border trade especially by improving transport logistics between Tanzania and its neighbours.

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The agency also runs the Tanzanian Central Transport Corridor, a main competitor for Kenya’s Northern Corridor in attracting transit cargo through each country’s coastal ports.

Tanzania President John Magufuli has been on the forefront in promoting the corridor, upgrading the ports of Dar es Salaam and Tanga, while at the same time building a new Standard Gauge Railway that is about to be completed.

The Northern Corridor is run under the ministry of East African Community.

It is a major entry point into the East African hinterland and connects the landlocked countries of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi all the way to Ethiopia, with the Mombasa port.


MY TAKE
Nilishawaambiaga watu humu ndani mradi wa Trademark EA kufanya mizigo ya Burundi, Rwanda na DRC kupitia shorter central corridor route toka Mombasa uta-fail! BTW hawa Wakenya kwenye COW walitubagua pia..

 

[Pascal Mayalla]

Tanzania omits Kenya from preferential transport deal
By Lee Mwiti
Published: Mar 3rd 2018 at 00:01, Updated: March 3rd 2018 at 00:01

Clearing agents at Namanga town in Kajiado County, barricade the road in protest. The more than 100 agents were protesting what they termed as police harassment while on duty. They appealed to the relevant authorities to intervene. Transport at the border paralyzed for more than two hours before police intervened. [photo/PETERSON GITHAIGA]
Kenya has been left out of a new deal brokered by Tanzania that seeks to lower cross-border charges on trucks ferrying goods across the borders.

The deal announced by the Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CCTTFA) will see Ugandan and Burundian trucks that cross Tanzanian borders charged $152 (Sh15,397) from $500 (Sh50,165) that was charged before.

ALSO READ: Impose tough penalties to deter negligence in medical facilities

Kenyan trucks have been excluded from the deal.

CCTTFA Executive Secretary Dieudonne Dukundane said during a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) capacity building workshop in Arusha that cross-border charges have been a huge impediment to free flow of trade and need to be harmonised.

“The three countries of Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi have agreed to lower these charges,” Mr Dukundane told Tanzanian daily, The Citizen.

“We have an agreement to harmonise the cross-border charges and in fact, a transit truck pays only $152, down from $500 to pass through Tanzanian borders,” he added.

CCTTFA is tasked with easing cross-border trade especially by improving transport logistics between Tanzania and its neighbours.

ALSO READ: Revealed: Night of wrong knives and unknown patients at KNH

The agency also runs the Tanzanian Central Transport Corridor, a main competitor for Kenya’s Northern Corridor in attracting transit cargo through each country’s coastal ports.

Tanzania President John Magufuli has been on the forefront in promoting the corridor, upgrading the ports of Dar es Salaam and Tanga, while at the same time building a new Standard Gauge Railway that is about to be completed.

The Northern Corridor is run under the ministry of East African Community.

It is a major entry point into the East African hinterland and connects the landlocked countries of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi all the way to Ethiopia, with the Mombasa port.


MY TAKE
Nilishawaambiaga watu humu ndani mradi wa Trademark EA kufanya mizigo ya Burundi, Rwanda na DRC kupitia shorter central corridor route toka Mombasa uta-fail! BTW hawa Wakenya kwenye COW walitubagua pia..

Geza hii story ni ya uongo na uzushi!, mimi nilikuwepo kwenye workshop hiyo na nilihudhuria mwanza mwisho, huyo mwandishi Lee Mwiti, hakuwepo, he just cooked up the story, workshop imefanyikia Dar na sio Arusha, nothing kuhusu Kenya kimezungumzwa kwa sababu Kenya sio sehemu ya Central Corridor!.

Hii tabia ya Kenyan media kutunga uongo kuhusu Tanzania ikiachwa, kuna siku watatutia vidole machoni!

Paskali

 

[joto la jiwe]

Geza hii story ni ya uongo na uzushi!, mimi nilikuwepo kwenye workshop hiyo na nilihudhuria mwanza mwisho, huyo mwandishi Lee Mwiti, hakuwepo, he just cooked up the story, workshop imefanyikia Dar na sio Arusha, nothing kuhusu Kenya kimezungumzwa kwa sababu Kenya sio sehemu ya Central Corridor!.

Hii tabia ya Kenyan media kutunga uongo kuhusu Tanzania ikiachwa, kuna siku watatutia vidole machoni!

Paskali

Kenya uongo ni asili yao hawawezi kuacha, muhimu ni kuhakikisha kila wanapodanganya tunawarekebisha na kuwashushua.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Geza hii story ni ya uongo na uzushi!, mimi nilikuwepo kwenye workshop hiyo na nilihudhuria mwanza mwisho, huyo mwandishi Lee Mwiti, hakuwepo, he just cooked up the story, workshop imefanyikia Dar na sio Arusha, nothing kuhusu Kenya kimezungumzwa kwa sababu Kenya sio sehemu ya Central Corridor!.

Hii tabia ya Kenyan media kutunga uongo kuhusu Tanzania ikiachwa, kuna siku watatutia vidole machoni!

Paskali

Ndiyo huyu aliandika Magu karuhusu polygamy Ule mziki wa kuwa tunaichelewesha EAC haupo tena maana speed yake imewanyang'anya pipeline na sasa SGR inavunja COW!

 

[Geza Ulole]

Kenya uongo ni asili yao hawawezi kuacha, muhimu ni kuhakikisha kila wanapodanganya tunawarekebisha na kuwashushua.

Wako bitter sasa majungu yamebaki, northern corridor summits hatujawahi alikwa na hata uzinduzi wa SGR Mombasa-Nrb hatukualikwa.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Kenya uongo ni asili yao hawawezi kuacha, muhimu ni kuhakikisha kila wanapodanganya tunawarekebisha na kuwashushua.

Wako bitter sasa majungu yamebaki, northern corridor summits hatujawahi alikwa na hata uzinduzi wa SGR Mombasa-Nrb hatukualikwa.

 

[eliakeem]

Geza hii story ni ya uongo na uzushi!, mimi nilikuwepo kwenye workshop hiyo na nilihudhuria mwanza mwisho, huyo mwandishi Lee Mwiti, hakuwepo, he just cooked up the story, workshop imefanyikia Dar na sio Arusha, nothing kuhusu Kenya kimezungumzwa kwa sababu Kenya sio sehemu ya Central Corridor!.

Hii tabia ya Kenyan media kutunga uongo kuhusu Tanzania ikiachwa, kuna siku watatutia vidole machoni!

Paskali

So what to do if the tabloid disseminates a cooked news regarding the other nation. MAANA pia hatujui ni kwa malengo gani!!?

 

[Muria]

Cool down people, over-eager nationalism has never been known for its great outcomes. The Kenyan writer of the article is clearly wrong in stating that Kenya has been left out of a Central corridor agreement because Kenya is not part of the central corridor. But the responses here have all taken a combative tone which is always laughable because these countries you want to die over almost always aren't willing to die for you.