TICTS tariff proposals rejected

AIPH has signed a 30-year deal with the Tanzania Ports Authority to manage Dar es Salaam’s Container Terminal 2, which handled 820,000 TEU in 2023.

Container throughput at Mombasa increased by almost 12% in 2023, with significant improvements in vessel and truck turnaround times, and a rise in total cargo handled.

The government of Uganda has cancelled its 2015 contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to build the next section of the standard gauge railway (SGR) from Malaba on the Kenyan border to the Ugandan capital Kampala

The Kenyan government has released some details of the US$3B loans it took out with China Export Import Bank (China Exim Bank) to finance the construction of two phases of the Standard Gauge Railway

The Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam has again been hit by congestion, with vessels diverted to Mombasa in Kenya through much of April

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.