World bank ranks: Kenya second on logistics

Mwanzi1 said:
Halafu haya mazungumzo ya Tanzania Ethiopia yamekwenda for months bila Nairobi kujuwa, wameachawa wanagombana na lapsset project yao. Gazeti lao la The East African hawajaweza kupata headline which favors Kenyan readers.
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Acha kuwashwa, wivu wenu wa kifala unadhani ndio umetawala nchi zingine?? Hizi tabia zenu za kondoo zimewafanya mkabakia nyuma kiuchumi, na hivyo mtakuwa hadi mpitwe na Rwanda
 
Mwanzi1 said:
Halafu haya mazungumzo ya Tanzania Ethiopia yamekwenda for months bila Nairobi kujuwa, wameachawa wanagombana na lapsset project yao. Gazeti lao la The East African hawajaweza kupata headline which favors Kenyan readers.
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Muethopia anamkomoa Mkenya kwa unafiki wake maana kakataa kusaini makubaliano ya nchi za Nile. Na alikaribisha Rais wa Egypt juzi wakasaini Mikataba ya siri. LAPSSET haitoboi
 
Edward Wanjala said:
Acha kuwashwa, wivu wenu wa kifala unadhani ndio umetawala nchi zingine?? Hizi tabia zenu za kondoo zimewafanya mkabakia nyuma kiuchumi, na hivyo mtakuwa hadi mpitwe na Rwanda
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Haha, hili sio povu la kawaida, hili lina rangi, I'm sensing red coloured form.
 
Geza Ulole said:
Muethopia anamkomoa Mkenya kwa unafiki wake maana kakataa kusaini makubaliano ya nchi za Nile. Na alikaribisha Rais wa Egypt juzi wakasaini Mikataba ya siri. LAPSSET haitoboi
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Na muethiopia ame hit bullseye. Hii new business plan on our ports wakenya hawawezi, countries can rent part of the port na sisi tunakula rent. They can bring their own ships, dock, unload, load wanavyotaka. Uganda is going with Tanga; Ethiopia Rwanda Congo, Dar. Bado China wao wanataka Bagamoyo. Kenya wilivyo na tamaa ya pesa, hawawezi ku surrender even an inch of there country. No wonder Ethiopia anataka air cargo hub kuiweka Dar.
 
The East African na the Star wapo busy kumu-attack Magufuli wakati yeye anasonga.
 
Govt to build radiochemistry lab at 110bn/radiochemistry


The Minister for education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training Prof Joyce Ndalichako (centre) gets a briefing from Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology Research Supervisor, hassan Mduma on banana grafting in the hassan Mduma on banana grafting in the h institution’s pilot farm in Arusha yesterday. On her right is the institution’s Council Chairman, Professor David Mwakyusa.(Photo by hazla Omar)

The Minister for education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training Prof Joyce Ndalichako (centre) gets a briefing from Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology Research Supervisor, hassan Mduma on banana grafting in the hassan Mduma on banana grafting in the h institution’s pilot farm in Arusha yesterday. On her right is the institution’s Council Chairman, Professor David Mwakyusa.(Photo by hazla Omar)

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THE government intends to build the country’s first, fully fledged Radiochemistry Analysis Laboratories (RAL) at Themi Hills on the outskirts of Arusha City, close to the Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC), to complement the fa cility.

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The revelation was made here by the Minister for Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Professor Joyce Ndalichako, while visiting the TAEC institution in Njiro area over the weekend.

She said the state is investing 5.2 billion/- for the construction of the laboratory premises, the project which will be completed at the end of 2018.

On the other hand, the proposed RAL, will be equipped with various modern and technological paraphernalia valued at 104 billion/- being donated to Tanzania by the European Union, bringing to its worth to set up to nearly 110 billion/-.

“It is going to be a state of-the-art laboratory for Eastern and Central Africa to be installed with ‘High-Purity Germanium Detectors’ for testing foods contamination and environmental samples; making the only place this equipment can be accessed in this region, because such facilities so far exist in only Ghana and South Africa,” said Mr Aloyce Amas, the nuclear research scientist at the TAEC.

Mr Amas pointed out that, with such facility in place, Tanzania through TAEC will be in a position to conduct radioactive tests from neighbouring countries, such as Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia and Malawi where such services are not available.

On his side, the Acting Director of Nuclear Technology, Mr Firmi Banzi, said the government was working to ensure that all regulatory authorities, such as the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS), the Tanzania Foods and Drugs Authority (TFDA), and the TAEC, establish a one-stop testing centre to minimize cumbersome and bu reaucratic processes involved in such testing.

“Many people, institutions and business entities have complained of having to shift from one entity to another, some are located far from one another, or in different regions altogether, yet they want their samples of their food, drugs, cosmetics and medical equipment taken and tested very fast,” he said.

Mr Banzi explained that radioactivity exists in almost all parts of the world, and not necessarily in places where explosions are experienced or related activities are seen, adding: “Therefore, it was imporing: “Therefore, it was imporing: “Therefore, it was impor tant to test contaminations in food, water, drugs and other intakes".


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Barrick Gold Corp.: Africa Demands More — What Gives?

Brian Paradza | March 28, 2017 | More on: ABX ABX


The March 3, 2017, export ban of metallic mineral concentrates by Tanzania has indeed caused turmoil on the stock price of London-listed Acacia Mining Plc, Tanzania’s biggest gold producer and a subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corp. (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:ABX).

The Tanzanian government, like many other African countries, is insisting on local mineral value addition to improve local employment creation, value creation, technology, and skills transfer into the host country. The East-African nation wants more of the economic pie.

How is the ensuing economic battle likely to evolve, and how concerned should Barrick investors be?

Barrick has a 63.9% stake in Acacia Mining. Acacia is losing about US$1 million a day due to the impasse. About 30% of Acacia’s revenues are at risk, and engagement with the government hasn’t yielded anything yet.

However, Barrick emphasizes that the production affected only represents 2-3% of its total 2016 revenues.

The ban has brought about an opportunity cost to Barrick that is not yet clearly measurable. Barrick was going through negotiations with Endeavour Mining Corp. with the intent to offload its majority stake in Acacia Mining and become a minority shareholder in the Tanzanian mining giant.

The government ban has already scuttled the talks.

What’s likely to happen next?

The mineral concentrate ban is on the instigation of Tanzania’s president John Magufuli, who has been calling for the construction of more gold smelters in the African country. The man is a tough character, nicknamed “The Bulldozer.” He will likely not easily budge.

Acacia already knows this and has offered to partner with the government in a new study to assess the economic potential of constructing a smelter in Tanzania that’s capable of processing the concentrates.

There was a feasibility study on the potential of building such a smelter in Tanzania conducted by the government in 2011; the study concluded that it was not economically viable to go that route. The report cited many critical issues, including lack of required minimum concentrate supply capacity and high energy costs which would make the exercise noncompetitive to Chinese and Japanese facilities currently offering the service.

Tanzania could therefore be forcing a commitment from Acacia towards some meaningful local value addition, and Acacia will end up constructing at least a partial processing plant in Tanzania.

Set-up costs for a concentrate-processing facility were estimated in the range of US$500-800 million in 2011. Most new copper concentrate smelters in the world are heavily supported by local governments directly or indirectly through tariffs and tax credits.

I foresee an eventual partnership between Acacia and the Tanzanian government on a joint smelter project.

However, Tanzania currently lacks the power-generating capacity to meet the smelter’s high power demand. Building a new power plant and all other modalities will take a lot of time.

Will the government continue suppressing Acacia exports for all those years, especially considering that Acacia production is about 2% of Tanzania gross domestic product?

That’s not so likely.

Acacia may be allowed a window to resume concentrates exports while working on a partial processing facility. The company hasn’t stopped stock-piling the concentrates yet, so the impact on 2017 revenues may end up being minimal.

For Barrick, the impact is significantly diluted for now.

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Dar, Kampala hold ‘postmortem’on February Museveni TZ visit
DAILY NEWS Reporter
04 April 2017


Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni welcomes his counterpart the President of Tanzania John Magufuli (file photo).

EXPERTS from Tanzania and Uganda have converged here for a two-day session to thrash out the finer details of areas of agreement reached between President John Magufuli and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the latter’s visit to Dar last February.

The two-day Ugandan leader’s state visit was aimed at exploring various areas of potential bilateral partnerships between them, notably the search for an improved cargo clearance system at the Dar es Salaam Port.

Briefing reporters here yesterday, the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, East Africa, Regional and International Cooperation, Ambassador Ramadhani Mwinyi, said the experts would later sign agreements on cooperation in different sectors.

He cited the areas up for detailed discussion as health, aviation, broadcasting and the joint construction of hydroelectric power plant on the Kagera River in Kagera Region.

“We’ll discuss different sectors … such as trade, aviation with a view to reaching joint agreements in these areas – all aimed facilitating and enhancing bilateral relations between Uganda and Tanzania,” he observed.

Uganda Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Patrick Mugoya, said the meeting was a “continuation of a ‘long history’ of friendship between Uganda and Tanzania, adding that the two countries would discuss a variety of issues, ranging from agriculture to railway transport systems.

Dar, Kampala hold ‘postmortem’on February Museveni TZ visit
 
Some of your government officials still havent recovered from how they ended up giving free land (Without charging Uganda) for the pipeline deal to Tanga.... And now you are at it again to give part of your port to a foreign country in return to be given a small fee....

Did anyone in History become wealthy by not owning his bussiness???? Can you tell me please, which is more beneficial between fully owning the port and servicing ethiopian Cargo and giving part of the port to ethiopia for them to service themselves however they like and then give you a fixed fee for it... Yes indeed, MuEthiopia hit the bulleye kwa wadanganyika.....


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I have a video but I don't have time to give you a link, I will bring it later if I find time, Both Ethiopa and South Sudan have land Close to the Lamu port for them to be able to store containers, but we never gave them part of the port,even the plots we agreed to set aside for them, they still had to pay for them.... Hii ni biashara, hakuna cha undugu wala kuchekeana....


And BTW wewe na Geza mnaongea ni kama kenya na Ethiopia hawana bilateral agreements, The trade between Tanzania and Ethiopia as mentioned in the article in the previous page is onnly $1Million dollars.. In comparizo, Ethiopia and Kenya are building a border worth $10 Million dollars..... \That alone is 10 years worth of trade between Ethiopia and Tanzania

http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/s...Ethiopia-trade/1226-3078662-77w3xu/index.html





Plus, their parliament has already approaved any Kenyan Companies to set up in Ethiopia... They rarely do that for other Countries

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/new...e-with-Kenya--/2558-2277314-u9a5dg/index.html
 
METL r in Ethiopia where did u get that no company from other country is allowed?
 
Ahwww..... That land again, the most divisive issue in an entire Kenya history. The funny thing is we have plenty of it, and sometimes we give it for free to our own people.

On the serious note, who says Uganda will have free land for their oil pipeline, didn't we beat Kenya on the cost of using the pipeline? Tamaa zenu ndio zimewafikisha hapo mlipo sasa.

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Everything you said above is exactly Kenyan policy and attitude towards her trading partners. Kenya walk in, take everything you own and enrich herself. Ni tabia mlioichukuwa kutoka kwa wakoloni, and its now haunting you.

The way you put it, is as if we'll rent out our facilities and we kick back do nothing, in fact big part of our ports we'll still be in control and we can use it as we pleases. Tanzania hasn't ceases trading, we still have agricultural, oil, gas, transportation, manufacturing, tourism, research, services, banking, housing, military, marine, fishery etc etc...

The different between Kenya na Tanzania in terms of working with there trading partners, Tanzania will be like a giant mall, where any country can rent a store and open there shop. This gives our partners sense of ownership, and it wont stop Tanzania having it's own store if she chooses to do so. But according to YOU, Kenya is like a giant mall but only the Kenya is allowed to open a store, the rest will have to supply Kenya if they want sale their products in Kenyan giant mall. You won't get win win with that type of business model, no sense of ownership no security, the countries will always feel as second class partner when there doing business with Kenya, no wonder Rwanda Uganda are having second thought on the SGR.

You might sign a $10mil biz deal with Ethiopia, we might sign $1mil but there's always a room to improve and space to grow. Mark my words "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" more to come.
 
 

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Liontown Resources discovers lithium zone in Tanzania
13:30 05 Apr 2017
Assays of up to 3.3% lithium identified from rock chip sampling.

Liontown is planning additional trenching and soil sampling
Liontown Resources (ASX:LTR) has identified high-grade, spodumene-related lithium mineralisation at its Mohanga Lithium-Tantalum Project in Tanzania.

The Mohanga Project, which Liontown acquired in late 2015, covers a total area of 177 square kilometres and is located circa 40 kilometres from Tanzania’s capital Dodoma.

The anomalous results come from the Tresor prospect, where rock chip sampling has recorded high grade lithium assays up to 3.3% lithium and >100 ppm tantalum.

The pegmatite zone is interpreted to be up to 90 metres wide and at least 500 metres long, with the trend open along strike beneath transported cover.

The high-grade (>1%) lithium zone is up to 30 metres thick and at least 150 metres long; however, its full extent is unknown due to limited outcrop.

The latest results have given Liontown the confidence to progress exploration activities including additional trenching and soil sampling.

A maiden drilling program will be designed based on the results of this work.

In addition to targeting lithium mineralisation, further work will also be undertaken to assess the potential of the Mohanga Project to host Archaean greenstone-hosted gold mineralisation.

Previous soil sampling has recorded up to 120 ppb gold at the Halo prospect.

Liontown’s shares were last trading 5.26% higher intra-day on Wednesday, at $ 0.02.

Liontown Resources discovers lithium zone in Tanzania
 

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This giant mall of kenya still have more foreign companies HQ based in Kenya (serving the rest of the region) than any other country in this region.... 95% of multinational first time entering Africa will set up shop in Kenya to cover africa And/or East Africa first so your analogy does ot hold water..... The only time they will choose Tz over Kenya as their HQ is if it concerns natural resources or things that Kenya doesnt have in plenty like LNG,Uranium, Gold.....


Anyway, back to the tanga pipeline, Your transit fee was low because of many factors, one of them is because you chose not to charge Uganda for the land rates that the pipeline wil sit on, muliwapatia bure, On the other hand on the Kenyan side, Kenya was going to compensate land owners but later on, a certain fee was to be added so that eventually that land compensation would be paid back by the whoever owned the oil that was flowing in the pipeline hence contributing to the increase of the transit fee
 
Gas explorer teams up with Lockheed Martin on helium-fuelled airships


Lockheed Martin's hybrid airships are designed to carry heavy payloads to remote regions
5 April 2017 • 8:07am
Giant helium-fuelled airships could soon be plying the skies - and a Tanzania-based gas explorer hopes to be joining them for the ride.

Helium One, a start-up crewed by oil and mining industry veterans, is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to work on using the US giant’s new airships to transport helium from its project in Tanzania to port for shipping.

The company hopes that the partnership will eventually result in it supplying helium to Lockheed’s entire fleet of hybrid airships.


Hybrid airships are helium powered
Lockheed plans to launch its first helium-powered airship for commercial use in 2018, and already has an order pending for 12 craft from an aviation firm in Alaska.

The giant aircraft can carry minimum 21-tonne payloads and are intended for use in the oil, gas and mining sectors, delivering bulky supplies to remote installations where there are few roads or airstrips, as well as for use in tourism.

“We like the thought of shipping our product using our product,” explained Tom Abraham-James, Helium One’s chief executive.

Helium One claims it has one of the largest untapped resources of helium anywhere in the world, totalling 98.9bn cubic feet, and is expecting a surge in demand if Lockheed’s airships take off.


Helium One wants to transport its helium using helium-powered ships
“There’s a looming gap in the market where we see ourselves fitting,” Mr Abraham-James added.

Helium One is privately held by its founders and a group of high-net worth individuals, but recently gained Aim-listed Solo Oil and Gas as a 10pc investor. Mr Abraham-James said the company was weighing its own listing in London later in the year.


The company’s helium deposit in Tanzania could begin producing by late 2018. Using airships instead of trucks to transport the gas would provide a “direct, point-to-point delivery” to port in Dar-es-Salaam in seven hours, avoiding bottlenecks, said Mr Abraham-James.

Helium is inert and therefore much safer than hydrogen, which was used to propel the zeppelins of the 1930s. The development of helium-fuelled airships for commercial use has only recently become possible thanks to military patents being available in the public domain.

“With the demand for helium increasing, this discovery of a nearly 100 billion cubic foot helium deposit in Tanzania will help ensure future supply,” said Rob Binns, chief executive of Hybrid Enterprises, the company that holds the contract to sell Lockheed's ships.

“What better way to transport this product than with our helium-filled hybrid airship.”

Gas explorer teams up with Lockheed Martin on helium-fuelled airships
 
Mimi naona mmelewa na hizi foreign companies being in Kenya, its only safe to sail as long the tide stays the same. Opening an office in London used to number one priority to all major multinational companies. Because, (A) Britain is an English speaking country and English is business language almost all over the world, (B) Britain used to colonise half of the world so they've some sort of influence on many countries, (C) British financial institutions were trading with all major economies around the world. But, with one turn of event (Brexit), all those prospects where gone. Companies are startling to question themselves if they can still conduct there business from London. Even the British companies are asking the same question.

One thing you didn't mention or maybe you didn't know, most of places the Tanga pipeline will be passing are the places which are not occupied by humans. And land being a property of the state, state can choose to do anything with it for the benefit of it's people. Unlike Kenya were people always rush and grub land for the purpose of enriching themselves when state come knocking for the land. Same happen to Lapsset project, same on SGR, same on oil pipeline.
 
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