Tazara Releases Export, Import Report for 2010/11

25 April 2011

TAZARA ferried about 32,000 tonnes of imported fertiliser and 37,000 tonnes of copper exports during the third-quarter of the 2010/11 financial year which ended on March 31 this year.

Cumulatively, the performance for the period under review stood at 419,538 tonnes which is 77 per cent of the planned tonnage for the end of the third quarter.

According to Tazara, E-Newsletter, an in-house quarterly publication, the 31,750 tonnes of fertilised transported by the company during the quarter translates into 99.8 per cent of what was budgeted for.

“On the positive side, it is worth noting that a total of 31,750 tonnes of imported fertiliser was transported by TAZARA, which was 99.8 per cent of what was budgeted for during the period.

“It is also worth noting that a total of 36,509 tonnes of copper was hauled from new Kapiri-Mposhi which is 59.4 per cent of what was budgeted for. Overall performance now stands at 419,538 tonnes which is 76.8 per cent of the planned tonnage up to the end of the third quarter.”

Management is determined to ensure that by the end of the 4th quarter of the 2010/2011 financial year in June, the cumulative performance would be better than what has been achieved so far.

The publication states that after a serious but temporary lapse in February 2011, the authority’s freight traffic performance has rebounded at the end of the third quarter ending March 2011.

“Performance in freight haulage is back on the recovery trend, with the full quarterly performance standing at 77.5 of the budgeted performance.

The average traffic performance recorded from January to March 2011 is 136,736 tonnes which is 22.5 per cent short of the planned 176,461 tonnes.

The actual tonnage moved was 53,679 tonnes, 37,172, and 45,885 tonnes in January, February and March 2011, respectively.

At 53,679 tonnes for January, the performance was almost 84 per cent of the planned volumes of traffic, which was however negated by the below-average performance in February 2011 when it dropped to 68 per cent.

Factors that undermined performance in February come in the backdrop of accidents and several work stoppages at Mbeya workshop where go-slows have now become the order of the day.

The publication states that the performance was also worsened by inadequate number of wagons and sub-optimum utilisation of those that are available.

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