TANZANIA is making great strides in many areas economically, and one such area is on operation of its ports, serving the country as well as neighbouring landlinked countries.

The country is blessed to have different ports along its coastline as well as on its lakes and the government has spared no efforts in developing the ports with modern infrastructure.

Ports serve as important transportation hubs that facilitate goods movement, such as distribution of freight, including raw materials, parts and finished consumer products.

They conduct important functions such as administrative; ensuring that the legal, socio-political and economic interests of the state and international maritime authorities are protected.

In terms of development they are major promoters and instigators of a country’s or wider regional economy and also are part and parcel of industrial development.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has put a special push in supporting the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) in ensuring that it improves its performance and service delivery to customers.

That has been accepted by senior officials of TPA who in turn credited her support. In spite of the country going through the Covid-19 pandemic that affected almost all parts of the world, TPA is doing well and there is an increase in number of customers, as it is witnessed of the queues at its ports.

As the government put efforts in improving its transport and transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways and airports, a lot has been done on the ports as well.

President Samia dished out 500bn/- to TPA for purchase of equipment to improve services delivery at its ports since she ascended to the throne last year.

The equipment include cargo handling tools and now TPA is doing everything possible to ensure that it reaches the set targets on time.

President Samia and her aides have been good TPA ambassadors, working closely with the authority and as a result the flow of cargo ships at the ports has been impressive, meaning that more will be collected in the government’s coffers for serving the people in different sectors.

What the government is doing for the ports is laudable and more companies and countries are lining up to get services from Tanzania ports.

Apart from serving Tanzanians or foreigners living in Tanzania, the ports serve the Comoros, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia and parts of Mozambique.

With the improved infrastructure, it is certain that ports will earn more to the nation and the status achieved by Tanzania of a middle-income country will go up as days unfold.

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