Abstract
Dar es Salaam seaport serving the Tanzania hinterland and other seven landlocked countries in East and Central Africa, The rapid economic growth of the hinterlands resulted to the increasing demand for overseas products from their country’s residents, this create congestion at Dar es Salaam seaport. Due to this, the connection for the movement of commodities from seaport to its hinterland has noticeably very slow. A qualitative research methodology technique is used in this article to explore the status, challenges and strategies of Dar es Salaam seaport-hinterland connectivity. The findings reveal that even though Dar es Salaam seaport is linked to the hinterland through both railway and road transport, but is hugely dependent on road transport. Regular tariffs increase for imports, insufficient number of trains and wagons connecting Dar es Salaam seaport, poor qualities of roads and railway infrastructures, congestion at the roads and the absence of new freight station are the main existing challenges in which significantly affect the smoothness of Dar es Salaam seaport-hinterland connectivity. Furthermore, the article proposes various enhancing strategies to combat named challenges. These strategies will be crucial to the government in decision making on how to develop and advancing Dar es Salaam seaport-hinterland connectivity.
Highlights
All major seaport of East Africa seeks to develop and enlarge its hinterland; the level of seaport competition became stiff in this region
Road transport tops all other modes in Tanzania, carrying over 85% of total freight and 90% of passengers
The suggested Kisarawe Freight Station (KFS) is to be located 11 km north of the town of Kisarawe and 2 km south of Morogoro Road, in order to offer a speedy access to this new freight station, highway roads should be built to access direct link to Morogoro road from freight station as shown in Figure 3 below
Summary
All major seaport of East Africa seeks to develop and enlarge its hinterland; the level of seaport competition became stiff in this region. Dar es Salaam seaport days onward is looking ahead to turn into the entire seaport hub for east and central Africa. In achieving this goal, it is very vital to retain existing seaport clients and influencing new clients together with investors. To becoming a busiest and leading seaport in the East and Central Africa regions, it is significant to ease the accessibility of Dar es Salaam seaport to its hinterland. Seaport is a significant interface infrastructure for whole transportation system, it’s a base for country industrial economy [1]. The economies of the Landlocked countries are mostly influenced by the increasing of freight services costs, by exceeding irregularity in transit times [4]. Data used in this research were collected from interviews, distance calculator, official World Bank database website and the National Bureau of Statistics of Tanzania
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