Tanzania Port of Dar es Salaam Additional Information
The draft alongside each of the berths is as follows
Berth
Length
Draft at Quay
Permissible Draft
1
188M
9.2M
8.7M
2
179M
9.2M
8.7M
3
172M
9.2M
8.7M
4
187M
9.2M
8.7M
5
180M
10M
9.5M
6
180M
10M
9.5M
7
199M
10M
10.5M
The container Terminal managed By TICTS has four berths with a total quay length totaling 735
metres, back with a paved area with modified railway tracks that incorporate both TAZARA and TRL.
The equipment that supports the operations comprises of Ship of Shore gantries, Rubber tyred
gantries, Rail mounted gantry crane that serves the rail links, plus tractors trailer, mobile cranes, front
loaders etc.
Berth
Length
Draft at Quay
8
11.5
11.5
9
11.5
11.5
10
11.5
11.5
11
11.5
11.5
Oil Jetty
The Oil jetty is situated at Kurasini handles refined products and can receive ships up to 45,000
deadweight, drawing a maxim draft of 11.5 metres.
In the region of 2, 7 million tons of bulk liquids are imported via the Oil Jetty, In view of the Single
Buoy mooring being under maintenance and the fitting of new manifolds, delays are being
experienced for tankers stemmed to discharge at the facilities, demurrage on delays to the vessels
berthing outside of their lay cans is being charged.
Single BuoyMooring.
There is an off shore SingleBuoy Mooring (SBM)which is exclusive to Zambia for the discharge of
Crude oil, has a capacity to handle a vessel of
120,000DWT.
The single buoy mooring is undergoing upgrading, this will include the development of a new multi petroleum products (white and black oils) transfer pipe line between Kigamboni and Kurasini, which
will include a mid stream bulk storage facility.
The facility is at present in operative, new manifolds are being placed, which should be able to
maintain a steady discharge rate of 1000 metric tons per hour against a rated capacity of 3000 tons
per hour, the constraint being the receiving tanks/ facilities.
The off shore Single Buoy Mooring will be operative in the second half of 2012.
Port Performance
Capacity
Total handling
capacity of the
Bulk
Container
General Cargo
MT/month
MT/month
MT/month
1,500,000
1 Million /1 Million
/361884 + 158,00 Teu via
3,3 million freight tons
includes break-bulk,
port
Genera cargo Pier
fertilizer un bags , cars etc
Monthly activity 125,000
of the port
43,300 Teu
275,000 Freight tons
Current monthly Nil
use by WFP
Average /152 Teu – 3002
Tons
Traffic arrives in
containers then stripped to
warehouse
Potential
monthly use by
WFP
10,000
500 Teu/ Month
1000/ month
Monthly use if
augmented
10,000
500 Teu/ Month
1000/ month
Additional tonnage may be consigned to and handled by WFP Tanzania, the main constraint for Bulk
cargo will be the berth wait plus the off take from ships side, which may be slow as there is no silo
stage space functioning with the port area.
Container traffic consigned to the Port is readily manageable via the warehouse located within the
Port area, the warehouse operations functions well, the constraint which is beyond WFP’s control is
the 10 to 12 day berthing delay .
Performances
Performance Type
Year
Total Cargo Handling (mt)
7,42,274
-
Total Annual Capacity of the Port
9,100,000
-
Capacity
Capacity Type
Export activity of the Port
Bulk
Container
Conventional
(mt/year)
(TEU's/year)
(mt/year)
1,035,653
145,065
-
Capacity Type
Bulk
Container
Conventional
(mt/year)
(TEU's/year)
(mt/year)
Import activity of the port
5,676,489
160,100
-
Import by Humanitarian
433,794
28,815
-
Top 1 Organisation <name>
N/A
-
-
Top 1 Organisation <name>
N/A
-
-
Imported for this LCA Country
N/A
-
Organisations
Discharge Rates
Dischqrge
Rates
Bulk
Bagged
to warehouse
-
175 tons per gang per 8 hour shift
to trucks
2500 WWD
175 tons per gang per 8 hour shift
to rail-wagons
Nil
175 tons per gang per 8 hour shift
to barges
N/A
N/A
to bagging
500 metric tons per gang
8 hour shift
Bag off about 200 metrictons per bagging
line per 8 hour shift
1. Bulk cargo are landed from the vessels using grabs into hoppers then conveyed to private silos
outside of the Port area. In the past bulk cargo was conveyed to the silos within the [port area, these
silos are presently in operative.
2. Bulk cargo that is landed then bagged on the quay side , landed from the bags using garbs , into
hoppers then , then from the hoppers into bagging machines , the bulk is bagged then taken from the
vessel by road and / or rail.
3. There is limited available port shed space thus the bagged cargo can only be temporarily stored in
the port area prior to being dispatched by road and/or rail to the final destination.
Discharging Container with Ship’s and Mobile Cranes
Berthing Equipment and Specifications
Port
Specifications
Nb Bulk
Min (m)
Bulk Max
(m)
Conventional
Min (m)
Conventional
Max (m)
Berths
7
9.2
metres
10.5
9.2
10.5
Anchorages
-
13+
13+
n/a
13+
Draught at anchor - metres
n/a
13.5 +
n/a
13+
Draught at Berth metres
-
n/a
10.5
9.2
10.5
Length Over All metres
-
n/a
234
n/a
234
Beam (maximum)
- metres
-
n/a
No
Restriction
n/a
No Restriction
Berthing Specifications
Total Berths
Quantity
Length
Draft
Bulk Oil Jetties
1
133
N/A
Port Cargo Equipment (operational)
Appliance
Quantity
Capacity
Shore Cranes
13
5-7 Tons
Mobile Cranes
15
35 – 65 tons
Bagging Machines
6
200 mt per bagging line per 8 hourshift
Silo Facilities
Inoperative
30,000 tonscapacity, 1000 metres to the rear of the
Port.
Vacuvators
N/A
n/a
Available Storage (covered)
50,200
50,200 m³
Available Storage (open air)
Shed
100,000 m³
squares
Grabs
15
-
Hoppers (Mobile)
5
-
Appliance
Quantity
Capacity
Reach Stacker
10
45 Tons
Empty Container Handler
3
12- 16 tons
Tractors
21
-
Forklifts
36
3-16 tons
Front end loader
1
42 Tons
Trailers
63
-
Ship-to-shore
3
40 Mt
Rubber tyred
8
36 Mt
Rail mounted
1
36 Mt
‘Jones’
1
7 - 11 Mt
‘Grove’ & ‘Locatel’
8
10 – 25 Mt
‘Skylift’
1
20 Mt
13
42 Mt
25
5 - 7 Mt
‘Hyster’ & ‘Linde’
11
3 Mt
‘Boss’
24
9 Mt
5
16 Mt
71
40 Mt
* Gantry Container Cranes:
* Front Loaders:
‘Boss’, ‘Lancer Boss’ &
‘Valmet’
* Port Cranes
'Cannon’
* Fork Lifts
* Empty Handlers
‘Boss’
* Terminal Trailers
Various
Container Facilities
TICTS have the following equipment
Ship Shore Gantries
40 tons
5
Rubber Typed Gantries
40 tons
15
Reach Stacker
40 tons
5
Empty Container Handlers
20 tons
5
Tractors
-
47
Trailers
(12 metres)
50
Forklifts
Various
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Facilities
Container Terminal
• 18.75 hectares in size
• 4 berths with a quay
length of 725 metres
(Berths 8, 9, 10 and 11)
Kurasini ICD
Ubungo ICD
• 6.7 hectares in size
• Located 1.6
kilometres from the
Container Terminal
8.63 hectares in size
• Located approximately 16
kilometres by road from the
Container Terminal
• Storage shed occupies
14,330 square metres
• TAZARA (Tanzania
Zambia Railways
• 23,400 square metres of open
storage
• Storage shed occupies 24,400
square metres
• TRL (Tanzania Railways
Limited) links directly into the
Facility
Kurasini Inland Container Depot. ( KICD )
Location: 1.6 kilometres from TICTS Terminal
A specialized CFS station with a warehouse, yard and handling equipment to provide reliable services
for a range of LCL cargo

Services rendered are:
• Stripping import containers into the warehouse
• Direct stripping into the trucks
• Stuffing of export cargo into containers
• Transfer of export containers to the terminal
• Stripping import containers onto rail wagons
Ubungo Inland Container Depot.( UICD)
Location: 16 kilometres from TICTS Terminal, a constraint that needs to be factored into the
turnaround of road trucks is that the route to Ubungo is congested and this will impact on the
turnaround of a road vehicle. The average round trip can take between 4 to 6 hoursdepending on
traffic. (This excludes delays into entering the Port of Dar Es Salaam.
A specialized CFS station with a warehouse, yard and handling equipment to provide reliable services
for a range of LCL cargo

Services rendered are:
• Stripping of import containers into the warehouse
• Direct stripping of cargo onto trucks
• TRL rail connection available at Ubungo
• Storage area for long staying containers
• Auction of over staying containers.
TICTS handles and manages Less Container Loads (LCL) cargo in three different areas
1.Kurasini Inland Container Depot- KICD
2. Ubungo Inland Container Depot-Ubungo
The ship shore hourly handling rates is reported by TICTS at 18 Teus per, however this is countered
by the Lines who claim that in reality the hourly handling rate is in the region of 13 teus per gang hour.
TICTS have the following equipment
Ship Shore Gantries
40 tons
5
Rubber Typed Gantries
40 tons
15
Reach Stacker
40 tons
5
Empty Container Handlers
20 tons
5
Tractors
-
47
Trailers
(12 metres)
50
Forklifts
Various
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Oil Handling Terminal
There is an off-shore tanker berth with facilities for anchorage of large tankers to moor and discharge
crude oil direct from ships at a rate of 5,000 Mt per hour. It has the capacity to berth tankers up to
120,000 dead-weight tonnes (DWT).
The Kurasinin Oil jetty handles refined oil products and can handle ships of up to 45,000 DWT.
Main Silo Terminal
The Silos are within the Port surrounds, entrance to the silo facility is from the port area with road
access direct from the quay side, on to the bulk tipper trucks being used to convey the bulk grains
from ship’s to the Silo intakes and there is a separate entrance from Bandari Road for the despatych
on bagged product to the final destination. Silo space totaling 30,000 tons is available
approximately 1500metres to the rear of the berths. The silos are in operativedue toelectrical and
mechanical issues, a copy of the “Joint Technical committee to discuss upgrades to the Port of
Dar Es Salaam” is included in the annexure. The design capacity of the silo is as follows.

Grain Terminal
The Grain Terminal has a fully automated silo for handling import and export grains. Discharge is by a
grab/hoppers system including three bagging units.Grain is transferred from the quay by 10 dump
tractors.The silo is aerated and temperature controlled and has a holding capacity of 30,000 tons.
Fumigation facilities are also available to protect the grains against damage by moulds or insects.

Foundation:
Import and Export facility for grain such as Maize, Wheat and Rice.

Storage Capacity:
Concrete Silo, 30,000 Tons consisting of 24 main and 14 interstice Bins. Warehouse 1500 Tons of
Grain in bags.

Trucks:
10 Trucks for carrying grain to and from the ship.

Handling Capacity:
2 receiving lines of 125 tons per line per hour. Consisting of 2 dump pits, 2 independent chain
Conveyors, 2 buckets elevators and 2 distribution chain conveyors on silo deck. 3 outtake lines of 125
ton per line per hour to bagging station.Consisting of 2-belt conveyors and 1 bucket elevator. 3
bagging lines, consisting of one surge bin, with holding capacity of about 100 tons feeding 3 bagging
lines with automatic weighting and sewing, capacity each line 30 tons per hour. 2 Recirculation line of
125 tons per hour, consisting of two conveyors one chain conveyors, one bucket and one bucket
elevator and two distributing chain conveyors on silo deck. 16 direct Trucks loading spouts and one
central truck loading point.