Tanzania: Tanzania Opens Container Depots to Relieve Pressure On Port
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Daily Champion (Lagos)
14 March 2008
Posted to the web 14 March 2008
Lagos
The Tanzanian Ports Authority (TPA) has established six inland container depots (ICDs) as part of its emergency plan to relieve pressure on the port of Dar es Salaam.
Along with the setting up of the ICDs eight private companies have been authorised to transport containers between the port's container terminal and the depots. No charges for the transfer will accrue to container owners.
The effect of this and other measures to reduce the congestion at Dar es Salaam, which saw shipping lines bypassing the port in favour of Mombasa, can already be seen with container levels at the Tanzania International Container Terminal (TICTS) yard having decreased from 11,000 to 8,900.
TICTS has a handling capacity of 7,500 containers per day. Apart from complaints and pressure from local Tanzanian importers and exporters, neighbouring countries reliant on Dar es Salaam as the gateway to the international market have sent delegations to Tanzania asking for solutions to the congestion at the port. Countries that use Dar es Salaam include Zambia, Malawi, the DRC, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
The TPA is reported to be looking at a second container terminal for Dar es Salaam but is also looking at improving operational issues, such as reducing the dwell-time in the port.
Later this month a dredging programme for Dar es Salaam is scheduled to begin involving improving the draught alongside berths 1 to 11 - the dredging will take 32 weeks to complete. A second dredging programme is scheduled for the port of Kigoma (on Lake Tanganyika) later this year.
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Tanzanian annual port volumes are as follows: Dar es Salaam - 2.7 million tonnes, of which 722,793 tonnes was transit cargo; Tanga - 212,294 tonnes; Mtwara 28,512 tonnes; combined smaller lake ports 177,660 tonnes. The TICT-operated container terminal at Dar es Salaam handled 142,538 TEUs last year.
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