Dar port to become nation’s biggest revenue contributor

The Minister Of East African Cooperation Dr Harrison Mwakyembe. 

THE Dar es Salaam Port will in three year time lead in contributing to the national income if the ongoing improvements to enhance efficiency at the port are timely implemented.

The Minister of East African Cooperation Dr Harrison Mwakyembe said this in Dar es Salaam after inaugurating the first 2015 Economic Freedom of Tanzania Conference organised by Uhuru Initiative for Policy and Education.

“The government commitments to remove all red tapes at the Dar es Salaam port and adoption of latest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are progressively changing the port performance to international standards,” he said.

Dr Mwakyembe cited among others, the introduction of the Single Customs Territory (SCT) and the recent launching of the three freight wagon train routes to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.