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| Part of the newly crane |
The Port of Dar es Salaam has received four new
state-of-the-art mobile cranes ‘Gottwald’ from Germany expecting to improve the
day to day operations.
The new machines, worth 2.6 million Euros (about 5.2bn/-)
each, have been received at a right time and are expected to enhance quality
customer service at the port.
“In order to meet stakeholders’ demand to improve port
services, the authority has taken strong measures to cope with the projected
increase in the container vessels at the Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Tanga
Ports,” the statement said yesterday.
TPA has recently been working on equipment modernization
plan under its port master plan that aims at supplementing the old equipment
with the modern ones to match the current maritime demands.
TPA has in the past
bought new Reach Stackers, Terminal tractors, Forklift, for loading and
stacking containers.
The TPA container terminal has an annual capacity to handle
200,000TEUs. In the last 12 months, Dar port has registered positive records on
efficiency in cargo clearance, safety and security.
These achievements are in the areas of synchronising
stakeholders services to enable the port to operate 24 hours.
On stevedoring
operations, an improvement was recorded from 415 tonnes per gang shift of last
year to 446 per gang shift in October, this year.
While on shore-handling, cars productivity also improved per
shift from 210 units to 497 units during the same period.
Also yard density at
the main container terminal improved from an average of 62 per cent in 2011 to
52 per cent by October 2012 reflecting a no terminal congestion situation.
Source: The Daily News, www.dailynews.co.tz, reported by Abduel Elinaza in Dar es Salaam
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