WORKS, Transport and Communication minister Prof Makame Mbarawa has directed Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) acting assistant manager Nelson Mlali to verify all companies providing services to the port in order to improve efficiency and to avoid conflict of interest with the authority employees.
He issued the directives after an
impromptu visit to the TPA’s Kurasini Oil Jetty (KOJ) recently. “An
employee of TPA who owns a company that provides services to the
authority is a conflict of interest; it’s unacceptable,” he said.
He directed the acting assistant manager
to collaborate with the Business Registration and Licensing Agency
(BRELA) during the verification exercise. Prof Mbarawa urged TPA workers
to change their attitude towards work by increasing efficiency to earn
the government more revenue.
The minister also directed that any
purchase of spare parts must adhere to required standards to cut
government spending. TPA operates a system of ports serving the
country’s hinterland and neighbouring land-locked countries of Malawi,
Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.
It administers a diverse system of
Tanzania’s Mainland sea and inland water ways. The major sea ports are
Dar es Salaam, Tanga and Mtwara while smaller sea ports are Kilwa,
Lindi, Mafia, Pangani and Bagamoyo.
The lake ports under TPA mandate are: on
Lake Victoria: Mwanza North and South ports Nansio, Kemondo Bay, Bukoba
and Musoma; on Lake Tanganyika are Kigoma and Kasanga; and on Lake
Nyasa are Itungi port, Kiwira, Manda Liuli and Mbamba Bay.
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