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Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) has
extended the deadline to complete the expansion of the single mooring
point (SPM) at Dar es Salaam Port for three months.
The over 100bn/- project involves seabed
multiple pipelines installation designed to increase flow rate of
petroleum products to ease tankers’ congestions at the port.
TPA’s
acting Corporate Communications Manager Ms Janet Ruzangi said the
project that started early this year, would end in either September or
early October instead of July as proposed earlier.
“The contractors hit hard rocks that
were difficult to blast to give way, forcing them to reverse the early
plan to lay the pipes under seabed to seabed surface,” Ms Ruzangi told
the ‘Daily News’.
She said another obstacle was evaluation of
compensations for residents residing at the inland pipeline ways, which
also took more time than anticipated.
“Modifications at Kurasini Oil Jet (KoJ)
to talk with the SPM pipes also takes time…but all have been completed
and the contractor (Leighton Offshore of Malaysia )are now laying the
pipes,” said Ms Ruzangi.
The project, constructed at Ras Mjimwema,
Kigamboni, will have discharging capacity of 3,500 litres per hour,
cutting down the mooring time to single day from between four and five
days, currently.
SPM has been uplifted to not only reduce
freight cost per tonne as it will have a bigger ability of receiving
tankers with the capacity of up to 150,000 metric tonnes but also
support the bulk oil procurement initiative.
Currently, KoJ has the
ability of receiving tankers with maximum capacity of 40,000metric
tonnes. Due to economy of scale on oil importing, the bigger consignment
is delivered with a single ship, the lower the transport costs and
hence low pump prices for motorists.
The Leighton Offshore is expecting to
test the SPM before handing over the project to TPA. Under the project
the new SPM buoy will have a 25 metre depth and is constructed 200m
apart from the old one which will be demolished later.
Leighton
Offshore’s scope of work includes engineering and procurement, project
management, pre and post installation surveys, supply and installation
of the SPM system, as well as testing and commissioning.
Under the contract, Leighton Offshore,
were supposed to complete the project in April and followed by testing
before commissioning to TPA for commercial use in July.
Source: The Daily News,http://www.dailynews.co.tz, reported by Abduel Elinaza
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