Delays at Dar es Salaam
port: how Tanzania wrecks
a common EAC vision
with ingrained public
sector prerogatives
THISDAY CORRESPONDENT
Dar es Salaam
THE capacity-cum-administrative situation at the port of Dar es Salaam has now begun to attract the attention, and worried representations of Rwanda and Burundi. They have been complaining that Dar es Salaam port was becoming either unpredictable in how it handles their cargo, or in a way predictable, as a sore to their economic activity, such that in many areas they wish to shift to the port of Mombasa, which is more distant and thus costly, but avoid the confusion at the Dar es Salaam port.
Is this situation related to the battle concerning the Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (TICTS) contract? Is someone out to create conditions for the returning of the terminal to the port authorities soon?
Such a situation can be figured out because the recent rise in prices of oil, or rather failure to bring down oil prices in tandem with the steep decline in crude oil prices led rather quickly to moves by Ewura, the body charged with regulating water and energy prices commercially, to seek to impose price controls.
There is already a bill that has been approved by Parliament, under which the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) will start to control petroleum imports, and the failure to bring down oil prices now makes that scenario as common sense, and thus the same can be expected at the port. The piling up of containers shows that TICTS has failed to deliver, in which case the contract is up for its cancellation. More>>>>>
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