The number of containers transiting Tanzania is expected to climb by as much as 1,200 percent in the next 20 years, requiring a huge increase in handling capacity, the national audit office said last week.
Tanzania’s main port in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam processed more than 350,000 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last year, well over the 250,000 TEUs it was designed for.
The government plans two new ports on the Indian Ocean coast to feed growing economic activity at home, as well as landlocked neighbours Zambia, Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda.
“There is need to plan for handling future volumes, projected to grow to between 2.483 million and 4.717 million TEU per annum by the year 2028,” the National Audit Office said.
An inefficient rail service, which currently handles only 10 percent of cargo from Dar es Salaam port, has also lengthened transit times, meaning most containers end up using expensive road transport, it said in a report.
In a addition to the two new ports planned at Bagamoyo and Tanga, the government says it will expand an existing port in Tanga and another in Mtwara in the southeast of the country.
Msomaji
Dar es salaam
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