Efficiency up at Dar es Salaam

The new president of Tanzania has announced that her government will seek to restart the stalled project to build a new port at Bagamoyo. Samia Suluhu Hassan, who became the country’s first female president after the previous incumbent, John Magufuli, died in March, has sought to revive several big infrastructure projects.

Three new ZPMC low-profile cranes are on their way from Shanghai to Boston, US. The cranes were ordered by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) as part of the redevelopment of its Conley Container Terminal.

The Government of Tanzania has announced that 39 new locomotives and 800 freight wagons will be acquired for the redeveloped Central Line linking the town of Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika and Dar es Salaam, via the nation’s capital Dodoma.

Tanzania’s largest port, Dar es Salaam, is to open a ro-ro terminal that will be capable of handling 600,000 vehicles a year. The new facility, which will have the capacity to store 3,000 vehicles at any one time, is scheduled to open in September this year.

In its centenary year, Stella Maris has come up with an online rose purchase project to raise funds for seafarers at this very difficult time

Dunkirk port authority is introducing a rebate for ships complying with ESI norms. The port has also reported a new intermodal rail service from Nord Ports Shuttle