European ports and warehouses brace for surge in containers

When global food prices rose tremendously in 2008, the government--through the Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives minister of the day, Mr Stephen Wassira initiated six measures that were meant to cushion the country against food shortages.

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Said Salim Bakhresa and Company yesterday refuted claims that it owned 329 containers whose records went missing from the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), causing the suspension of the authority’s top boss and several others.

12 held over missing containers
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POLICE are holding 12 suspects over the 349 missing containers at the Dar es Salaam Port, including high-ranking officials from the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and several Salim Said Bakhresa Company Limited staff working at its Inland Container ...

Containers with 300m/- logs impounded
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THE Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT) has impounded 31 contraband containers loaded with sandalwood logs valued at 300m/- reportedly destined for the Far East. View Comments. Addressing journalists in Dar es Salaam, the Permanent ...

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Minister calls for transport of containers by rail
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THE Minister for Works, Dr John Magufuli, has reiterated that traffic on Morogoro Road from Dar es Salaam through Coast Region will only be eased with more use of the railway in transporting containers to Ruvu station. He made the call on Tuesday evening ...

It is not unheard of for freight containers in transit to veer off a speeding truck and quash a stationary or moving daladala, killing everyone on board.

The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) in collaboration with the police yesterday seized nine containers suspected to have been covertly moved from Dar es Salaam Port to evade tax.

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500 containers scam: MPs reject TRA report
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Industry and Trade Parliamentary Committee has rejected reports of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) saying it misses relevant information on administrative actions taken against its staff implicated in the consignment scandal in which 500 containers ...