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Tanesco signs $500m deal
MONDAY FEBRUARY 26 2018


The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) building in Ubungo, Dar es Salaam. The company has signed a $500 million power purchase agreement with mining firm Kibo. PHOTO | NMG

In Summary
  • According to the deal, Kibo will supply 300MW from its Mbeya plant to the national grid.
  • Other countries in the region are also diversifying their power sources fromi from hydropower into coal, geothermal, steam, natural gas, solar and wind.

By KENNEDY SENELWA
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Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has signed a $500 million power purchase agreement with mining firm Kibo.

According to the deal, Kibo will supply 300MW from its Mbeya plant to the national grid.

Kibo chief executive Louis Coetzee said the firm hopes to complete funding arrangements for construction and commissioning of a Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Programme (MCPP) during the second half of 2018, after which power generation can commence in 36 months.

“We will continue to work closely with all the relevant parties and remain positive that the Ministry of Energy will honour its commitment to deliver signed a power purchase agreement by the end of the first quarter,” Mr Coetzee said.

Other countries in the region are also diversifying their power sources fromi from hydropower into coal, geothermal, steam, natural gas, solar and wind.

Edenville Energy is planning a 120MW Rukwa coal to power project in south western Tanzania estimated to cost $175 million.
Kibo is working with SEPCO III of China for construction.

Tanesco signs $500m deal
 
27 FEBRUARY 2018
The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Tanzania: Three Organisations Agree to Share Railway Services

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Three organizations agree to share railway services.
By Alfred Zacharia
Dar es Salaam — Locomotives and wagons of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) will start operating along the authority's Dar es Salaam-Lusaka railway line in March this year.

This comes after the signing in October 2017 of an Open Access Agreement (OAA) between Tazara and Zambia Railways Limited (ZRL) make it possible for Tazara to extend its operations beyond Kapiri-Mposhi in Zambia.

Under the OAA pact, Tazara and ZRL are now allowed to run their locomotives and wagons on each other's railway lines. Tazara managing director Bruno Ching'andu told The Citizen that trial operations under the agreement were conducted in October 2017.

During the trials, he said, a Zambia Railways train conveying maize from Lusaka to Chozi in Tanzania 'exchanged' the maize consignment with a consignment of steel coils that was conveyed from Dar es Salaam to Chozi by a Tazara train.

In the event, the Zambia Railways train transported the steel coils from Chozi to Lusaka, while the Tazara train returned to Dar es Salaam with the maize consignment from Lusaka.

"The purpose of the trial was to learn at firsthand how such operations could best be done after the 'access arrangements become fully operational," he told The Citizen in an email response, stressing that "important lessons were drawn from the trial operation."

After the trial operation was completed, both parties went back to the drawing boards to thrash out the challenges that were identified during the trial.

"We are planning to resume the operation on a larger scale in March 2018," he stated. Currently, Tazara transports about 15,000 tonnes of different types of cargo a month - which works out to 180,000 tonnes per year.

"The new operational routes will enable us to extend our operational destinations to Lusaka, Livingstone and Ndola in Zambia - while ZRL can run all the way to Dar es Salaam," he noted.

This will enable Tazara to attain its target of transporting about 350,000 tonnes of cargo during the financial year 2017/18.

"We are determined to ensure that Tazara becomes a profitable company once again - and it can then stop depending on government subsidies. This is just one of the immediate-term strategies taken by the management to tweak the company for peak performance as we await a long-term solution," he said.

For his part, the Tazara public relations manager, Mr Conrad Simuchile, said apart from the MoU on Access Operations with ZRL, Tazara has also signed a seperate MoU with Calabash Freight Limited that's registered for operations in both Tanzania and Zambia. Calabash intends to run its own trains on the Tazara line - paying fees for doing that.

So far, Calabash has conducted one trial run to assess the efficacy of the operations.

"Full Calabash Freight access operations may follow once we get approval of the Tazara board," Mr Simuchile said. Tazara is also in the process of leasing five locomotives, with a view to 'injecting' them into the envisaged operations by end of March this year.

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Tanzania: Three Organisations Agree to Share Railway Services
 
Five competing for Rufiji dam project
From SYLIVESTER DOMASA in Dodoma
06 March 2018

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TANZANIA has shortlisted five companies for the construction of East Africa’s largest hydropower dam along the Rufiji River in the heart of one of Africa’s largest remaining wild areas - the Selous game reserve

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. The 2,100-MW Rufiji Hydropower Project which is expected to power the country’s emerging industries and export its surplus to the rest of East African countries, is expected to be commissioned any time from now. Chief Government Spokesperson, Dr Hassan Abbas told a press conference that 17 companies had expressed interest but only five submitted documents for evaluation.

“We are carefully evaluating all the five submissions especially in the area of technical and financial capabilities,” he said. The government official said the first tender which was announced late last year involved companies that did not meet the set expectations.

“We had to call for more bidders and now I can confirm that we have five companies ready to work,” said. No details were released from the government as of yesterday regarding names of the companies under scrutiny.

But Dr Abbas said categorically, that the state was scouting for the best firm to execute the job on one of the 1982 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation named list of World Heritage.

Details from the Ministry of Energy show that construction of this hydro facility would involve building a main dam and appurtenant structures, with expected reservoir length of 100 km, covering an area of about 1,350 square km.

The dam height is about 134 metres. Rufiji will have an installed capacity of at least 2,100 MW, with a minimum guaranteed annual firm energy of 5,920 GWh, the ministry says. The facility will include a 400-KV switch yard. The ministry anticipates that the facility will contain vertical Francis turbines, each with a capacity of 200 MW to 300 MW.

Dr Abbas said it was the government’s expectation to ensure the country generates sufficient and reliable power to electrify its domestic and export demands. He further noted that expansion work at the natural gas powered Kinyerezi I and II were at different stages of completion.

He said the extension work at Kinyerezi I would add up 185 MW in the national grid while the Kinyerezi II would raise the total in the state electric grid to 240 MW. “We have already released 111.88 MW in the national grid from Kinyerezi II, we hope to commission at least 30 MW every month until we reach the 240 MW mark,” he said.

According to the director, implementation of both projects were at 60 and 90 per cent. Kinyerezi II would be completed by September, three months earlier than the initial deadline of December this year. Tanzania, whose population is approximately 53 million, has 1,400 MW of installed grid capacity.

Five competing for Rufiji dam project
 
Finally, four ATCL planes arrive in July
From SYLIVESTER DOMASA in Dodoma
06 March 2018


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FOUR newly procured planes for Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) are expected in the country next July, the government announced here yesterday.

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The Director of Information Services, Dr Hassan Abbas said the new planes from the Canadian Bombardier Manufacturer will arrive in the next four months. The government statement ends months of speculations on the fleet plight.

The government signed a firm purchase agreement with Bombardier Commercial Aircraft for the two Q400 turboprop airliners in July 2016. The 76-seater aircraft chiefly for commercial airline operations were pegged at 62 million US dollars (over 140bn/-).The state further signed another 224.6 million US dollar (over 500bn/-) deal for one Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and jetliners CS300 to add up to the already delivered two Q400 planes.

“I understand there have been lots of rumours going on out there, but I’m here to assure you that our new planes, including the Boeing 787-8 will arrive this July,” he said. Dr Abbas decried the efforts doomsters were investing to frustrate the national flag carrier revival initiatives, saying, “They will all fail because the government is determined to revive the airline company.

” It was earlier reported that the Tanzanian aircraft, Bombardier Q400, which was previously scheduled to arrive in the country last July, was seized in Canada due to the government failure to pay 38 million US dollars it owed the UK’s Stirling Civil Engineering Limited.

Stirling Civil Engineering Limited, which was contracted to construct the Wazo Hill- Bagamoyo road, accuses the government of illegitimately terminating its contract without compensation.

The firm, successfully sued Tanzania at the International Court of Arbitration in Montreal Canada, leading to the seizure of the aircraft. Dr Abbas said there are more challenges that the government was handling, insisting that all was going well at the ATCL. He said the government had commissioned rehabilitation of 10 airports including Mwanza, Geita and Tabora to accommodate the new aircrafts.

Without giving more details, Dr Abbas said the government had already started constructing the new Dodoma International Airport at Msalato. The chief spokesperson said expansion works on Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam were also going on well.

The Dreamliner, observers say, will be the top plane of Air Tanzania. It is not clear which route it will launch its first journey, but industry sources hint that it will operate on the longhaul international routes, linking Dar es Salaam with other leading destinations in Africa, Europe, Asia and America.

Finally, four ATCL planes arrive in July
 
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Bravo my President
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Rukwa poised for development as two major roads constructed


The government is funding the three road projects by 100 per cent. This was revealed recently by the Rukwa Regional Tanroads Manager, Engineer Masika Mkina during the second Regional Road Board meeting held here in the municipality and chaired by the Rukwa Regional Commissioner (RC), Mr Joachim Wangabo.

He further said that the Jianxi – Geo – Engineering Group Corporation (JGC) from China rehabilitated a section of Sumbawanga - Chala – Kanazi of road covering 75 kilometers at a cost of over 87.8 bn/- whose civil works have been accomplished by 100 per cent.

Equally, rehabilitation of a section of Kanazi – Kizi – Kibaoni road covering 76.6 kilometers at tarmac level by China Hunan Construction Engineering Group company from China at a cost of 82.4 bn/ has also been completed by 100 per cent. “Both road projects are now under probation of one year after being completed by 100 per cent,” added Eng Mkina.

He further said that the rehabilitation of a section of Sumbawanga – Matai – Kasanga Port road covering 122 kilometers at a cost of over 133.3 bn/- undertaken by China Railway 15 Bureau Group (CR15BG) is completed by 71.6 per cent.

He further said that the road project is carried under the system of design and build and is scheduled for accomplishment on September 30, this year. Contributing, a cross section of the RRB members said that rehabilitation of three major road projects will be a gate way to neighbouring countries as well as act as an aerial link to other regions.

Rukwa poised for development as two major roads constructed
 
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