Dar es Salaam is the door, and the Central Corridor behind it reaches four more countries.
Dar es Salaam does two jobs at once. It serves Tanzania itself, and it is the sea entrance for Zambia, Burundi, Rwanda and the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of Congo. That means a lot of machinery crosses that quay, and the clearing agents there are used to it.
Gold mining around Geita and Shinyanga takes production excavators and large loaders. Road contracts take rollers, graders and tippers. Dar es Salaam itself is building hard, which takes twenty tonne excavators, backhoe loaders and mixers. Agriculture takes backhoes.
If you are feeding a crusher or loading haul trucks, buy the size up rather than the size down. A machine working flat out at its limit all day costs more in fuel, in wear and in downtime than the bigger machine would have cost to buy.
Use a clearing agent who handles plant rather than containers of consumer goods. We issue the invoice, the packing list and the bill of lading before arrival so nothing is waiting on us.
If the machine is really destined for Lusaka, Bujumbura, Kigali or Lubumbashi, say so at the start. The paperwork for goods in transit is different from the paperwork for goods entering Tanzania, and your agent needs to know before the vessel docks.
So you can compare before you talk to anybody. Every machine on our site shows its price, its hours, its engine and the yard it is standing in.
What contractors and mining companies in Tanzania ask us.
The machine, and whether it stops in Tanzania or carries on inland. With those two we can quote properly.
