Rwanda truckers happy at Tanzania cut

[Geza Ulole]

Rwanda truckers happy at Tanzania cut

KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwandan truckers are now able to compete favorably with their Tanzanian counterparts in signing up new customers.

This follows the Tanzania's government decision to reduce its road toll charges on Rwandan registered trucks in September last year.

Rwandan registered trucks now pay $152 each to use Tanzanian roads compared with the $500 before. This is what Tanzanian registered trucks also pay while in Rwanda.

Theodore Murenzi, the Secretary General of the Rwanda Long Distance Truck Drivers Union said last week, "The high road toll fees directly impacted on our costs of transportation, thus traders always preferred to use Tanzanian transporters or opt for the longer Northern corridor."

About half of Rwanda's imports pass through Tanzania. He said there were about 400 Rwandan registered trucks engaged in long distance transport.

He said the reduction had made transport costs for importers and exporters more favourable, a factor which also allowed traders to price their goods competitively.

However, Murenzi felt the two governments could reduce the road tolls even lower.

Road tolls have been listed among the leading trade barriers by those coordinating the single customs territory.The experts say that reducing the charges would be in line with the success for the new Single Customs Territory system.

The reductions would also result into cheaper prices for some commodities coming from Tanzania like rice.

The Central Corridor is about 1700 kilometres, stretching from Bujumbura through Kigali to Dar es Salaam. It is a shorter route than the Northern Corridor which is about 1900 kilometres.

By Geoffrey Kalenzi, Monday, March 10th, 2014
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[Lupweko]

Naona umewaita wa kutosha, subiri waje hapa tuone mashambulizi!

 

[simplemind]

Punguzo mbona la siku nyingi tangu Rwanda ilipotishia kupandisha road toll kufikia $500.

 

[nzalendo]

Hapa kinachotakiwa ni reli kuanzia pale isaka mpaka bugarama city,na huo ndo uchumi

 

[anjo]

Wakati wanyarwanda wanaingiza magari 400 tu, Tanzania tunapeleka na kupitisha magari 6000 kwa mwezi.

 

[IDUNDA]

Wakati wanyarwanda wanaingiza magari 400 tu, Tanzania tunapeleka na kupitisha magari 6000 kwa mwezi.

huo mlinganisho ni sawa na kuilinganisha south africa na swaziland. Rwanda ni Rwanda na Tanzania ni Tanzania hata iweje hii haitabadilika. hakuna ushindani hapo.

 

[anjo]

Idunda, uko sahihi sana! Kwa kifupi nilikuwa naonyesha jinsi tunavyotofautiana. Na kwa faidi, mgawanyo ndo huo huo.

 

[waltham]

Rwanda truckers happy at Tanzania cut



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KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwandan truckers are now able to compete favorably with their Tanzanian counterparts in signing up new customers.

Kenya targets Dar cargo with Taveta border crossing

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A sign post showing the site of the One Stop Border Post under construction in Taveta at a cost of Sh498 million. It is expected to boost trade with Tanzania. FILE


Posted Tuesday, March 4 2014 at 20:43
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Kenya is betting on a new border post and the planned Mwatate-Taveta road to boost its share of cargo traffic even as concern grows over delay in signing a bilateral pact with Tanzania.

Officials say the completion of the Sh500 million Taveta one-stop border post (OSBP) and construction of the road joining central Tanzania will significantly change the region’s trade dynamics in favour of Kenya as more cargo reverts to Mombasa Port and the Northern Corridor.

“Once projects are complete, traders will have more choice with some of the Burundi-bound cargo, for instance, coming to Mombasa and leaving through the Northern Corridor,” Theo Lyimo, an OSBP director at TradeMark East Africa, said in Nairobi.

The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) says the Taveta OSBP is 80 per cent complete and could be launched in May.

Similarly, the contract for the Mwatate-Taveta road has been finalised, with the groundbreaking ceremony expected in one month, KeNHA director-general Meshack Kidenda said.

The road, to be launched by presidents Uhuru Kenyatta and Jakaya Kikwete, will provide an alternative route to Tanzania’s Central Corridor.

Kenya sees the two projects as fresh fronts in its battle for control of regional cargo after losing a significant portion of Rwanda and Burundi-bound cargo to the Port of Dar in the last ten years.

Up to 2003, at least 60 per cent of Rwanda and Burundi cargo passed through Mombasa and the Northern Corridor before traders began to shun the Kenyan facilities citing congestion at the port and insecurity and corruption on the roads.

Rwanda currently accounts for 3.9 per cent of the transit traffic at the Mombasa Port, having cleared 260,238 tonnes of cargo through Kenya in 2012. Over the same period, Burundi registered 39,160 tonnes or 0.6 per cent of total transit traffic.

The OSBPs enable State agencies from two countries involved in managing border operations — such as customs, standards and immigration officials — to work side by side, sharing infrastructure and reducing the bureaucracy.

Among the structures at the Taveta OSBP are a police post, X-ray scanning facility, verification block, warehouse and animal holding unit.

The two States sharing the OSBP, however, have to sign bilateral deals to permit the border control agencies to work on each other’s side of the border. Kenya and Tanzania are yet to endorse such a pact even as they prepare to launch the Taveta OSBP in the next three months.

“The understanding we have with Tanzania on the Taveta OSBP will be presented to the Cabinet at its next sitting and once approved, we’ll launch the facility because operational procedures are ready,” EAC Affairs Secretary Phyllis Kandie said on Monday in a speech read on her behalf by acting Integration secretary Alfred Kitolo.

Kenya, which is already implementing OSBPs in Malaba, intends to have at least eight such structures at its key border points.

Apart from Taveta, the same model is being constructed at Busia (60 per cent complete), Namanga (11 per cent) and Isebania and Lunga Lunga. Others are expected to come up at the borders with South Sudan and Ethiopia.

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[Bob]

Urefu wa barabara upande wa Tanzania ni mara nying sana ukilinganisha na urefu ulio upande wa Rwanda. Hii inagharimu zaidi katika ujenzi na maintenance. It is illogical to compare 1,600Km na 150kms, ni bora malipo ya barabara yawe kwa utumizi.

 

[waltham]

Urefu wa barabara upande wa Tanzania ni mara nying sana ukilinganisha na urefu ulio upande wa Rwanda. Hii inagharimu zaidi katika ujenzi na maintenance. It is illogical to compare 1,600Km na 150kms, ni bora malipo ya barabara yawe kwa utumizi.

critical thinking mkuu

 

[Geza Ulole]

KIGALI, Rwanda - Rwandan truckers are now able to compete favorably with their Tanzanian counterparts in signing up new customers.

Kenya targets Dar cargo with Taveta border crossing

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A sign post showing the site of the One Stop Border Post under construction in Taveta at a cost of Sh498 million. It is expected to boost trade with Tanzania. FILE


Posted Tuesday, March 4 2014 at 20:43
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• Mwatate-Taveta road expected to open up central Tanzania.

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Kenya is betting on a new border post and the planned Mwatate-Taveta road to boost its share of cargo traffic even as concern grows over delay in signing a bilateral pact with Tanzania.

Officials say the completion of the Sh500 million Taveta one-stop border post (OSBP) and construction of the road joining central Tanzania will significantly change the region's trade dynamics in favour of Kenya as more cargo reverts to Mombasa Port and the Northern Corridor.

"Once projects are complete, traders will have more choice with some of the Burundi-bound cargo, for instance, coming to Mombasa and leaving through the Northern Corridor," Theo Lyimo, an OSBP director at TradeMark East Africa, said in Nairobi.

The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) says the Taveta OSBP is 80 per cent complete and could be launched in May.

Similarly, the contract for the Mwatate-Taveta road has been finalised, with the groundbreaking ceremony expected in one month, KeNHA director-general Meshack Kidenda said.

The road, to be launched by presidents Uhuru Kenyatta and Jakaya Kikwete, will provide an alternative route to Tanzania's Central Corridor.

Kenya sees the two projects as fresh fronts in its battle for control of regional cargo after losing a significant portion of Rwanda and Burundi-bound cargo to the Port of Dar in the last ten years.

Up to 2003, at least 60 per cent of Rwanda and Burundi cargo passed through Mombasa and the Northern Corridor before traders began to shun the Kenyan facilities citing congestion at the port and insecurity and corruption on the roads.

Rwanda currently accounts for 3.9 per cent of the transit traffic at the Mombasa Port, having cleared 260,238 tonnes of cargo through Kenya in 2012. Over the same period, Burundi registered 39,160 tonnes or 0.6 per cent of total transit traffic.

The OSBPs enable State agencies from two countries involved in managing border operations - such as customs, standards and immigration officials - to work side by side, sharing infrastructure and reducing the bureaucracy.

Among the structures at the Taveta OSBP are a police post, X-ray scanning facility, verification block, warehouse and animal holding unit.

The two States sharing the OSBP, however, have to sign bilateral deals to permit the border control agencies to work on each other's side of the border. Kenya and Tanzania are yet to endorse such a pact even as they prepare to launch the Taveta OSBP in the next three months.

"The understanding we have with Tanzania on the Taveta OSBP will be presented to the Cabinet at its next sitting and once approved, we'll launch the facility because operational procedures are ready," EAC Affairs Secretary Phyllis Kandie said on Monday in a speech read on her behalf by acting Integration secretary Alfred Kitolo.

Kenya, which is already implementing OSBPs in Malaba, intends to have at least eight such structures at its key border points.

Apart from Taveta, the same model is being constructed at Busia (60 per cent complete), Namanga (11 per cent) and Isebania and Lunga Lunga. Others are expected to come up at the borders with South Sudan and Ethiopia.

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First the one border post is not sponsored by any East African Govt but Trademark EA! EA member states contribute just a part of the whole that comes from Trademark EA.

Second even if the border is to start working still Tanzania will have an advantage over Kenya on Rwanda and Burundi markets since the one border post is all about doing away unnecessary delays but road tolls will continue to be there. Unless the owners of logistic business in Rwanda, Burundi and DRC will be so generous to Kenya to pay road toll in TZ and then Kenya then use Mombasa port. Or pay Uganda and Kenya and then use Mombasa port. The fun thing is Kenyan media never leave to amaze the way they keep on having hopes on impossibilities.

Lastly one border post does not mean customs from a neighbor country are to be allowed to operate in another country but have to deal with goods entering their territory go to the EU and you will see how the one border post works! Unfortunately shallow and shabby journalism rules in that country of yours just the same way was pushing for tour operator to be allowed to enter the parks of neighboring country likened to a guest coming to your house and play the role of a host unheard of...

 

[Bavaria]

atleast ingekuwa 300 USD kwa hyo 152 USD hapo rwanda wametuvuta shati

 

[waltham]

First the one border post is not sponsored by any East African Govt but Trademark EA! Second even if the border is to start working still Tanzania will have an advantage over Kenya on Rwanda and Burundi markets since the one border post is all about doing away unnecessary delays but road tolls will continue to be there. Unless the owners of logistic business in Rwanda, Burundi and DRC will be so generous to Kenya to pay road toll in TZ and then Kenya then use Mombasa port. Or pay Uganda and Kenya and then use Mombasa port. The fun thing is Kenyan media never leave to amaze the way they keep on having hopes on impossibilities.

the problem with you is instead of concentrating on policy docs you offer your ten cent opinion which is neither here or there.and the kenya media ndio u copy most of your posts.defeats logic.you well know tz media never existed.you always have verbal diarrhea issues.
[h=2]EALA urges leaders to assent to One Stop Border Posts Bill[/h]

Fuel and cargo trailers wait for clearance at Gatuna border. When the One-stop border post is made into law, it will remove delays and bureaucracies at border posts. The New Times/ File
KAMPALA – The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MPs have appealed to regional Heads of State to urgently assent to the long-awaited One-Stop Border Posts Bill that was passed last year in Kigali to facilitate trade and movement of people within the region.
Susan Nakawuki, a Ugandan member of EALA, told journalists in Kampala that the Bill would remove bureaucracies at border posts when it becomes law. It would also compel countries to establish and designate one-stop control zones at their border posts, she added.
"We urge leaders to assent to this Bill because it will ensure faster integration of the region by removing bureaucracies that have in the past hindered achievement of Common Markets and Customs protocols, hampering free movement of goods and labour," she said.
She said Article 10 of the Common Markets Protocol guarantees that partner states provide for free movement of workers from other partner states within their territories.
"Our leaders recently challenged us to ensure issues of common market protocol are addressed through legislation. We passed this Bill and expect them to urgently assent to it to become law," Nakawuki observed.
The Bill, she said, seeks to extend partner states' national laws relating to border control officers of adjoining partner states permitting their free movement within the controlled zone(s) in the performance of their duties, without producing passports, but by simple and appropriate identity documents.
It also makes provision for the application of border control laws and provides for institutional arrangements in the co-ordination and monitoring of the one stop border posts.
However, it does not affect the rights of any adjoining partner states to take temporary measures in the interest of defence, security, public safety and public order.
Common border posts designated in the EAC as OSBPs include the Taveta-Holili border and the Namanga border (Kenya-Tanzania), Busia and Malaba borders (Kenya-Uganda) and the Kanyaru-Akanyaru border (Burundi-Rwanda). Others are the Mutukula (Tanzania-Uganda), Gasenyi-Nemba (Burundi-Rwanda) and Lungalunga-Horohoro (Kenya–Tanzania).
EALA general purpose committee has been in Uganda since last week discussing the 2013/2014 budget of about $130m that will be passed this month by the plenary in Kampala.