VAT blamed for trade drop at Dar

The Bureau of Enforcement, Investigations, and Compliance has “prioritised investigations of possible wrongdoing by common carriers or marine terminal operators” referred by the FMC over the ILA strike period.

Maersk launching a new service to support the Tanzania cashew trade, while keeping busy with naming new methanol-powered ships and opening fulfilment facilities.

Tanzania has launched operations on its first Standard Gauge Railway section, connecting Dar es Salaam and Dodoma, offering faster freight and passenger services.

US Shippers did not get everything they wanted in FMC’s final rule on definitions relating to unreasonably refusing to load export cargo.

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.

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.