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Oz container traffic
TICTS tariff proposals rejected
proves resilient
Tanzania International Container Serv-
removed from port premises on time.
Mombasa in Kenya to the north, al-
ices’ (TICTS) plan to increase container
As previously reported, the Tanzanian
though congestion has become a real
handling fees at Dar es Salaam con-
government is already reconsidering the
problem at both ports over the past year,
extension of TICTS’ operating concession
with vessels waiting up to 20 days to
Major Australasian container ports were of empties and 1,520 TEU transhipped.
tainer terminal by a reported 150-300%
showing surprising resilience in through-
have been rejected on appeal by Tan-
at the port up to 2025 and is contemplat-
enter Dar es Salaam.
a71 Container volumes hit an all-time high
ing introducing more competition into the
TICTS had planned to increase
put late last year, with only Melbourne of 59,585 units at Auckland in Decem-
zania’s Fair Competition Tribunal.
sector, possibly by developing a second con-
storage charges from US$20 to US$50
noticeably slipping - and then from a ber 2008, compared to 52,599 for the
The company, which is controlled
tainer terminal at the same port to be op-
per container per day after the 16th day,
record October high. same month in 2007. This was a 13.2%
by Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH),
erated by a rival private sector company or
but the tribunal concluded that this
Australia’s largest container port increase and a useful gain on the previ-
had hoped to boost revenues to fund
by the country’s state owned port com-
would not solve the congestion prob-
shifted over 210,000 TEU in October, ous benchmark of 58,484 units in March
the expansion of the container termi-
pany, Tanzania Ports Authority.
lem. It argued that there were factors
after hitting 203,487 TEU in September 2007. In TEU terms December 2008
nal and reduce congestion. The Sur-
TICTS has achieved a great deal of
other than the dwell time, such as the
and 205,066 TEU in August. But No- throughput was 81,772 TEU (compared
face and Marine Transport Regulatory
success since taking over Dar es Salaam
inefficiency of the clearance process
vember throughput fell by 3.2%, against to 72,241 TEU in December 2007) and
Authority (Sumatra) had earlier re-
in 2000, tripling container turnover and
and poor infrastructure, which contrib-
expectations of 8% growth, although the also the highest recorded since March
jected the company’s planned fee struc-
offering real competition to the port of
ute to the problem.
rolling 12-month total was still up 8.5%. 2007’s 81,915 TEU.
ture for containers that were not
Sydney Ports Corporation (SPC) re-
ported total container throughput for the
fiscal year to date to the end of November
2008 was 830,000 TEU, up 10.7% on the
same period in 2007-08. November con-
tainer trade reached another record high
of 168,700 TEU, which was 8.6% higher
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and China, but also attributed to strong
transhipment container trade, which was
78.2% higher than November 2007.
Total full container imports at Syd-
ney for the period reached 417,000 TEU,
up 9.1% on the previous year’s figure,
while full exports increased by 20.4% to
184,000 TEU, driven by higher exports
of timber, machinery and transport equip-
ment, cereals and miscellaneous manufac-
tures. Empty container exports increased
by 6.3% to 216,700 TEU compared to
the same period in the previous year.
At Brisbane, total container through-
put for December rose 6.6% to 92,930
TEU taking the fiscal year total to 490,843
TEU, up 7.1% from the 2007-08 half-
year figure of 458,324 TEU. In Decem-
ber exports reached 49,060 TEU of which
20,121 TEU were empties and 1,274
TEU were transhipments. Imports stood
at 43,870 TEU, including 5,962 TEU
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