MALAWI government has contracted Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) to transport 48 million litres of petroleum products from Dar es Salaam port in the next 12 months, starting from next month.
This was revealed after a meeting
between TAZARA and a delegation of eleven officials from the Malawi
government in Dar es Salaam on Monday. The Malawi delegation was headed
by Mrs Estelle Nuka, Board Member of the Malawi Energy Regulation
Authority, according to a statement issued in Dar es Salaam.
TAZARA Managing Director, Bruno
Ching’andu, assured the Malawi delegation that with the new leadership,
the railway authority had the best management team to compete with any
in the world and was fully geared to take the firm to another level.
“Our shareholders have recently appointed me and my deputy and between us we have vast engineering and business experience.
Together with the rest of our
management, we have the best team that can compete with any in the world
and are well prepared to handle the cargo you will be bringing to us,”
Mr Ching’andu is quoted as saying in the statement.
TAZARA is also in discussion with the
Zambian government and another private firm to begin transporting at
least 14 million litres of fuel per month from the Port of Dar es Salaam
to Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) within the month
of July 2016, he said.
The new leadership is credited for
instilling discipline in the railway operations, with the firm now
registering consistent and shorter transit times in freight trains as
well as passenger trains, an impediment that tended to drive clients
away in the past.
The new managing director has also
ordered his management team to be customer-centric, giving maximum
respect to the clients and being responsive to their needs.
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