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| Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam port is the Tanzania principal port with a rated capacity of 4.1 million (dwt) dry cargo and 6.0 million (dwt) bulk liquid cargo. The Port has a total quay length of about 2,000 metres with eleven deep-water berths. Dar es Salaam port handles about 95% of the Tanzania international trade. The port serves the landlocked countries of Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. |
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The port is strategically placed to serve as a convenient freight linkage not only to and from East and Central Africa countries
but also to middle and Far East, Europe, Australia and America. The port of Dar es Salaam has the following marine crafts: • Six (6) Berthing Tugs • Sixteen (16) Lighter Towing Tugs • Four (4) Lighters • Two (2) Labour Launches • Two (2) Pilot Boats • Two (2) Patrol Boats • Thirteen (13) Mooring Boats • Storage: Eleven main quay transit sheds, total area 300,000m2; two transit sheds at the back of the port totalling 17,000m2; passenger sheds, baggage halls, customs warehouse and transit depots etc. Stacking grounds of 93,000m2 at the main port and 20,539m2 at Ubungo. Fully automated silos are operational at the grain terminal. Three bagging plants of approximately 90 tonnes per hour in 50kg bags. Temperature controlled silos have a capacity of 30,000 tonnes. • Tanker terminals: Kurasini Oil Jetty, a 'T' shaped jetty, starbaord side 9.5m depth for vessels up to 175m in length and up to 183m length for vessels with operational bow thruster. Single bouy mooring for vessels up to 120,000 deadweight tonnage, maximum depth 17m. • Container and Ro/Ro facilities: Container terminal at Berth numbers 9-11, total berth length of 560m. Equipment includes two container gantry cranes. Container yard area of 5.2 hectares and there is a container freight station with covered area of 3000m. Inland container depot at Ubungo. Ro/Ro vessels can be moored stern to quay between Berths 6 - 7. • Cranes: Two gantry ship to shore cranes, one rail mounted gantry crane and five rubber tyred gantry cranes. Sixty other cranes of 4-30 tonnes. Sixty nine tractors and 115 trailers, each capable of carrying 40' containers, 157 forklift trucks. • Ship repairs: Small 100 tonne cap slipway, depth 1.83m low water ordinary spring tide. • Working hours: 24 hours in three shifts, except Sundays when there are two shifts. • Towage: Eight lighter-towing and six berthing tugs available. • Airport: International Airport 13km from port. Source : Tanzania Ports Authority |