Africa-Press – Tanzania. CHALLENGES facing traders and shippers who import goods via Dar es Salaam Port to the Great Lakes Region may soon be resolved following a recent order by President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
The TPA and TRC have begun working on the 11 directives by President Samia to address the challenges, according to TRC’s Director General Masanja Kadogosa.
President Samia issued the directive at a trade forum between Tanzania and Burundi business community held in Bujumbura, Burundi last week, at the meeting, President Samia issued 11 directives as resolutions to address these challenges.
Speaking in Kigoma at the meeting with Kigoma traders and cargo transporters to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mr Kadogosa said they have started working on the instructions and resolutions of the Bujumbura conference.
He said the meeting of the traders and exporters of cargo in Kigoma Region was an implementation of the directives and that the meeting aimed at sharing the experience and providing solutions to existing challenges.
Mr Masanja, who also is also a member of the TPA board of directors, said the port challenges are closely related to TRL’s challenges in handling the cargo of the businessmen and transporters, adding that the managements of the two institutions have already begun talks to address the challenges.
Speaking at the meeting, the traders cited lack of cargo wagons as one of major challenges they face because it was forcing them to spend more time clearing their goods destined for the Great Lakes countries.
Shaban Yaburula from Press Freight Company in Kigoma said that the bureaucracy in the process to acquire wagons has become a major problem, lamenting over subsequent cargo storage costs at the port.
