Port Information
CONTROL: The port has a modern Image courtesy of Freight Forwarders Tanzania Ltd
vessel traffic control tower with a radar
• The port has storage yards for containers, motor vehicles and general cargo.
system. It also uses electronic charts and identification systems to enhance data
• Container yards:
collection. A search and rescue centre is operated by the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority.
- TICTS has three yards: the main terminal yard with a capacity of 11,500 teu, Kurasini Inland Container Depot
DIMENSIONS: Maximum size: breadth
with a capacity of 500 teu and Ubungo
38.0 metres, LOA 250 metres, draught
ICD with a capacity of 2,000 teu.
13.2 metres. - Tanzania Port Authority has several
LOCATION: 6°50’4”S and 39°17’57”E.
container yards with a total capacity of stacking 5,110 teu in the port and
• Dhow Wharf for dhows and schooners.
PILOTAGE: Compulsory except for
3,600 teu outside the port in the
vessels owned by government and TPA,
former Nasaco area.
ferries under 200 grt, vessels under 200 nrt, tugs, dredgers, barges and other
• The Lighterage berths have a total quay
specially exempted vessels.
length of 588 metres.
BUNKERS: MGO and IFO supplied
- There are several yards for temporary storage of motor vehicles with a combined capacity of 4,650 units.
RADIO: Radio frequency information:
There are plug-in points for 118 reefer
Signal station Channel 12.
containers.
in-port via road tanker. Three working days’ notice is required for efficient
STEVEDORING: TPA provides stevedor-
WATER: The port’s fresh water supply is
delivery. Only fully tax-paid bunkers are
ing services to all geared vessels on a
not guaranteed. Delivery by truck from
supplied.
24-hour basis. The shift performance on
outside the port is more reliable.
general cargo is 200 tonnes per gang per
CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT:
shift and 60 teu on containerised cargo per gang per shift.
shore gantry cranes, rubber tyred gantry
TIDES: There is a maximum tidal
cranes and a rail-mounted gantry crane.
variation of about 3.25 metres.
Tanga Port Information
empty container handlers and terminal
TOWAGE: There are six berthing tugs of
ACCESS CHANNEL: Access from the
tractors and trailers.
up to 3,680 bkW with 60.2 tons bollard
ocean is via a 6 km deepwater natural
pull and 16 smaller tugs for towing
channel that follows the course of a river
lighters.
to the port. The channel has not been
TICTS: TICTS operates panamax ship-to-
Other equipment includes fork-lift trucks,
GENERAL CARGO: Container-handling equipment include mobile cranes such as Gottwald and reach stackers, empty
dredged for some time although there
WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE:
handlers, front loaders, tractors, trailers, highway trucks and fork-lift trucks.
are plans to do so. Deepsea ships and coasters must anchor in the river channel.
• The port has sheds for cargo storage. ANCHORAGE: Safe anchorage for seven
• A silo can store up to 30,000 tonnes of grain.
oceangoing vessels of up 21.3 metres length and draughts from 6.4 to 9.45 metres. Three anchorages with a depth of
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Tanzania PORTS HANDBOOK 2016-17