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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