Africa-Press – Tanzania. This will be the third largest ship to dock during the period of one month, in a time when the port’s expansion projects is ongoing. The expansion and improvement of Tanga port is ongoing at berths 1 and 2 as well as increasing its water deep from 3 to 13 meters.
Tanga port manager Masoud Mrisha said this before the Tanga Regional Commissioner Waziri Kindamba who paid a visit at the Tanga port on Wednesday. He said the expansion and improvements project implementation has reached 95.5 percent of its completion.
For period of the past six months, statistics show that the performance of the port has increased upward, the port manager said. He further asked the Regional Commissioner to become the goodwill ambassador in promoting the port to increase activities to stimulate the regional economy.
In February 26 this year, the port received 150-meter length ship Baltic Pearl, which anchored and offloaded 6909.292 tons of ammonium nitrate chemical products from Russia, belong to Simba Supply Solutions Limited and was cleared for four days only.
Another incident occurred on March 15, this year when the port received the second largest ship with length of 179 with IMO number 9573828 from China anchored with spare parts and eight vehicles property of Maweni Limestone producer of Huaxin cement weighted 972 tons.
He said when the improvement and expansion works will be completed, port capacity is expected to increase to 50,000 Twenty Equivalent Unit(TEU’s) annually from currently 12,000 TEU’ s and will serve 3,000,000 metric harbour tons(HBT) cargoes annual from current 750,000 HBT.
Earlier, speaking at port premises Tanga Regional Commissioner Kindamba assured and called on business people and investors to use the port due to its reliability, security, efficiency in handling and clearing cargoes.
“Tanga port is the first East Africa main gateway seaport services and will to excel better for the side of port services due to its improved maritime quality services,” he said.
The Port of Tanga was built in 1914 initially to serve the commercial and agricultural needs of northern Tanzania; it is the longest-serving port in East Africa. A 354-km highway links it to its sister port Dar es Salaam in the South. Tanga port is situated on the northern coast of Tanzania.
Tanga Port is equipped with Habours Mobile cranes with lifting capacity of 63 tons each, Tugboats, Cargo barges – each with capacity of 3,500 tons, Cargo Lighter with capacity of 600 tons and Pantoons for cargo transfer.
It is strategically located to serve the northern Regions of Tanga, Kilimanjaro, Arusha, Manyara, the Lake Zone, and neighboring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern part of Uganda.
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