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Sumbawanga Airport to receive 56bn/- facelift


THE Sumbawanga Airport is set to receive a 55.9bn/- major facelift and become an international facility. The airport, once completed, sets to stimulate economic growth in the region while at the same time attract business opportunities in the neighbouring countries—Zambia and DRC.

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Not only that but also, the airport will become a gateway to tourism attractions such as Kalambo Falls in Kalambo District. The Deputy Minister for Works, Transport and Communication, Engineer Atashasta Niditiye, yesterday visited and inspected the airport during his two day working tour in Rukwa region.

The engineer affirmed that the government through Tanzania Aviation Authority (TAA) has secured over 55.9bn/ being a soft loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the major rehabilitation and expansion of the Airport .

To pave way for the construction, the deputy minister, said the government has set aside some 3.3bn/- to compensate about 97 residents. The residents are from two wards of Old Sumbawanga about 27 people and Izia 70 whose areas will be taken for the project.

He said that the compensation money has been verified by experts from the Ministry of Finance and Planning and all registered residents from the two wards will be compensated very soon in quest to start the project. Eng Niditiye was shocked to witnesse a crowd of people, auto – rickshaws, and motorbikes crisscrossing over the facility while kids were busy playing football.

He immediately directed TAA to ensure the airport boundaries are identified, demarcated and fenced as soon as possible . While the Acting Rukwa Regional Commissioner (RC), Dr Halfany Haule who is also the Sumbawanga District Commissioner (DC) said the airport will provide the area with an ample transportation facility that will open up the region's sky to international market.

A cross-section of Rukwa residents told the 'Daily News' in separate interviews that they welcome the expansion since it will increase opportunity for the economic growth at individual and regional level as well. Historically, the airport was built 1945 shortly after the World War II meant to serve small airplane for spraying farms with insecticide.

In 1985 it was rehabilitated and was officially opened by the former President Ally Hassan Mwinyi for domestic flights.


Sumbawanga Airport to receive 56bn/- facelift
 
Number of Internet Users Hits 23 Million Mark in Tanzania - Report

By Alfred Zacharia

Internet penetration in Tanzania increased in the past six years,.

It reached 45 per cent in 2017 from 17 per cent in 2012, the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) statistics for the fourth quarter show.

During the period, the number of internet users has been progressively growing, reaching 23 million people in 2017 from 7.52 million in 2012. The users also increased to 9.31 million (21 per cent) in 2013 and 12.27 million (29 per cent) in 2014.

The number increased to 17.62 million users (34 per cent) in 2015 to 19.86 million (40 per cent) in 2016. However, Internet World Stats says the country's internet penetration only reached 14.5 per cent of the population as of 2016.


As more people have been using mobile phone users the number of Internet users has risen.

TCRA statistics show that the number of mobile phone users grew from 27.62 million in 2012 to 40.08 million in 2017.



Supporting the fact, statistics also indicate that Internet users who used mobile wireless were 19.01 million in 2017.

Meanwhile, fixed wireless and fixed wired recorded 3.46 million and 520,698 internet users during the year 2017 respectively.

"The number of internet users by mobile wireless service was higher than that of fixed wireless and wired devices (when the two were combined together) by 79.01 per cent in 2017," the report shows.

As of March 31, 2011, the estimated total number of Internet users was 2.095 billion (30.2 per cent of world population).

It is estimated that in 1993 the Internet carried only 1 per cent of the information flowing through two-way telecommunication, by 2000 this figure had grown to 51 per cent, and by 2007.

More than 97 per cent of all telecommunicated information was carried over the Internet.

Report: Number of internet users hits 23m mark in TZ
 
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back to top THE Sumbawanga Airport is set to receive a 55.9bn/- major facelift and become an international facility. The airport, once completed, sets to stimulate economic growth in the region while at the same time attract business opportunities in the neighbouring countries—Zambia and DRC.
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Not only that but also, the airport will become a gateway to tourism attractions such as Kalambo Falls in Kalambo District. The Deputy Minister for Works, Transport and Communication, Engineer Atashasta Niditiye, yesterday visited and inspected the airport during his two day working tour in Rukwa region.
The engineer affirmed that the government through Tanzania Aviation Authority (TAA) has secured over 55.9bn/ being a soft loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the major rehabilitation and expansion of the Airport .
To pave way for the construction, the deputy minister, said the government has set aside some 3.3bn/- to compensate about 97 residents. The residents are from two wards of Old Sumbawanga about 27 people and Izia 70 whose areas will be taken for the project.
He said that the compensation money has been verified by experts from the Ministry of Finance and Planning and all registered residents from the two wards will be compensated very soon in quest to start the project. Eng Niditiye was shocked to witnesse a crowd of people, auto – rickshaws, and motorbikes crisscrossing over the facility while kids were busy playing football.
He immediately directed TAA to ensure the airport boundaries are identified, demarcated and fenced as soon as possible . While the Acting Rukwa Regional Commissioner (RC), Dr Halfany Haule who is also the Sumbawanga District Commissioner (DC) said the airport will provide the area with an ample transportation facility that will open up the region's sky to international market.
A cross-section of Rukwa residents told the 'Daily News' in separate interviews that they welcome the expansion since it will increase opportunity for the economic growth at individual and regional level as well. Historically, the airport was built 1945 shortly after the World War II meant to serve small airplane for spraying farms with insecticide.
In 1985 it was rehabilitated and was officially opened by the former President Ally Hassan Mwinyi f
 
Signing of pact for building Lake Tanganyika ship soon

BUSINESSPERSONS and residents who carry out businesses and live around Lake Tanganyika may now have something to smile about, after the government announced on Monday that it was about to sign the contract for the construction of a new cargo and passenger ship.

The new ship with the capacity to carry 600 passengers and 200 tonnes of cargo will operate in the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika, supplementing duties carried out by the oldest MV Liemba.

This was revealed on Monday by the Deputy Minister for Transport and Communication, Engineer Atashasta Nditiye, shortly after visiting and inspecting the Kasanga Port along the shoreline of Lake Tanganyika in Kalambo District, Rukwa Region. According to the Deputy Minister, the new vessel will operate from Kigoma via Katavi and Rukwa in Tanzania to Mpulungu Township in the neighbouring Zambia as well as in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi with numerous stops in between.

The Deputy Minister said the contract for building of the ship will be signed between the government and contractor from Korea in March, this year, including the major expansion of the Kasanga Port. He said that water transport is vital in the economic growth of any nation; that building a new ship will greatly improve and address marine challenges on Lake Tanganyika.

Engineer Nditiye observed that the oldest freight and passenger ship MV Liemba is still cruising Lake Tanganyika for more than a century, but due to its age it has failed to meet the fast growing demands on marine transport.

MV Liemba still runs to this day and a journey on her is a fascinating adventure. It was built as a German warship in 1913 for the Imperial German Navy and originally used to maintain German control over Lake Tanganyika.

On his welcoming remarks, Kasanga Port Manager, Eng Seleman Kazendo said the building of the new freight and passengers ship will go hand in hand with the major expansion of the Port and upon completion, it will have the capacity to serve 18 small centres along the shoreline of Lake Tanganyika as well as transporting cargo to the neighbouring Burundi and Congo DR.

The Meteorological Agency Manager (TMA) for Rukwa Region, Mr Abubakar Sanya told the Deputy Minister that the agency has installed modern meteorological gargets on Lake Tanganyika for weather forecasting.

The Kalambo District Commissioner (DC), Ms Julieth Binyura, said the building of a new ship will improve water transportation and address challenges afflicting villages along the shorelines of Lake Tanganyika, which cannot be smoothly reached by roads.

Signing of pact for building Lake Tanganyika ship soon
 
Tanzania: New railway set to be the new regional gateway



The government of Tanzania is set to construct a railway line from the Indian Ocean port of Mtwara to Lake Nyasa, opening a new gateway for landlocked Zambia, Malawi and DR Congo cargo. Reports Lawrence Kilimwiko

The government of Tanzania, acting through Reli Assets Holding Company (RAHCO), has invited firms to bid for a feasibility study and preliminary design for the construction of a railway line from the southern port of Mtwara on the Indian Ocean to the port of Mbamba Bay on Lake Nyasa, with spurs to the Liganga and Mchuchuma iron-ore and coal deposits in the Njombe region.

The railway is part of the Mtwara Development Project, a scheme undertaken by the governments of Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia to improve transport infrastructure and promote development and cross-border integration in a region spanning the four countries

At present, Dar es Salaam in the north handles most of the port traffic for this region and the aim is to facilitate trade in southern Tanzania and the neighbouring landlocked countries. The southern region of Tanzania has high economic potential due to the discovery of mineral resources but has long been left behind in terms of infrastructure investment.

Mtwara harbour was deepened during the colonial era. In the 1940s, a railway line was built connecting the port to Nachingwea as part of the Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme, which was an attempt by the British colonial administration to cultivate peanuts on a large scale in the region.

The 1,000km railway line will not only contribute to promoting private investment in mineral resource development, but will also enable the utilisation of vast swathes of unused land and other natural resources.

Due to the failure of the scheme the port lost trade and the railway line was closed in 1963. The port was functional but underutilised for many years due to poor transport infrastructure.

However, more recently, increased oil and gas exploration has caused a surge in operations. The 1,000km railway line will not only contribute to promoting private investment in mineral resource development (notably iron ore, coal and natural gas together with limestone and nonferrous metals such as nickel, uranium), but will also enable the utilisation of vast swathes of unused land and other natural resources.

China’s Sichuan Hongda Group has set aside $300m as capital for mining iron ore in Liganga and coal in Mchuchuma in partnership with Tanzania’s National Development Corporation (NDC). A recent study indicates that there are reserves of 428m tons of coal at Mchuchuma and 126m tons of iron at Liganga and Mchuchuma. Developing the central railway The Mtwara–Lake Nyasa railway project comes at time when the government is also constructing a standard gauge railway line from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma and Mwanza to replace the old central railway built by the German colonial power between 1905 and 1914.

The existing Tanzanian railway network comprises two main railways: the cental railway, covering 2,600km between Dar es Salaam and Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, including a branch at Tabora to Mwanza on Lake Victoria; and the Tanzania–Zambia Railway (TAZARA) built in the 1970s through a $500m Chinese free loan and covering 1,067km from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia.

Construction of the new line will be undertaken in phases. The first, which is already underway, covers 205km from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro at a cost of TSh2.8 trillion ($1.2bn). Construction work on this portion will include 95km of railway sidings and six stations.

RAHCO acting chief executive officer Masanja Kadogosa says that passenger trains cruising at 160kph should take only two hours to travel between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, down from the current 12 hours. The cargo trains will travel at 120kph.

Transport experts say that a new central railway is crucial as it is the backbone of the economy, not only for Tanzania, but also for DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. The current narrow gauge railway does not meet the requirements of a modern transport system.

RAHCO has floated tenders for the supply of 19 electric locomotives, 14 of which will be cargo trains.

The construction work is being carried out by a consortium between the Turkish construction group Yapi Markezi and the Portuguese construction group Mota-Engil. It is envisaged that it will take 30 months.

Developments in lake transport

Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) operates both Tanzania’s sea and lake ports. It maintains around 20 ports on the country’s biggest lake, Lake Victoria, in the north, which include Bukoba, Kemondo Bay, Musoma and Nansio. Principal lake ports on Lake Tanganyika, in the west, include Kigoma and Kasanga. Additionally, there are 15 smaller ports along the lake that provide trade connections between Burundi, eastern DRC and Zambia.

The country’s third biggest lake is Lake Nyasa in the south, which has four main ports – Itungi, Mbamba Bay, Liuli and Manda. In addition to the small boats that ply it between Tanzania and Mozambique, the lake is being serviced by two newly built cargo and passenger ships – MV Njombe and MV Ruvuma – built at a combined cost of TSh11.253bn as part of the government’s efforts to ease maritime transport on the lake.

Passenger trains cruising at 160kph should take only two hours to travel between Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, down from the current 12 hours. The cargo trains will travel at 120kph.

The move is also part of efforts by President John Magufuli’s government to ease transport for residents living in Ruvuma, Njombe and Mbeya regions together with their neighbours in Mozambique and Malawi.

According to the TPA deputy director general responsible for infrastructure, Karim Mataka, the two ships have the capacity to haul 1,000 tons of cargo each. Mataka says TPA has also entered into agreement with MS Songoro Marine Transport Ltd to build another passenger ship with a capacity of ferrying 200 passengers and 300 tons of cargo. The project is in its final stages at a cost of TSh9.12bn.

The three ships will also facilitate business expansion between Tanzania and the neighbouring countries of Zambia and DRC.


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