Tanzania: Truck Owners Wrestling With Deadline in Port Entry

IT was a beehive of activity on Thursday afternoon along Nelson Mandela Expressway at Kurasini Shimo la Udongo as drivers, mechanics and trucks' owners were busy mending their vehicle to beat next Monday's deadline when substandard trucks will not be allowed to enter Dar es Salaam port.

"We hope this is going to be uniformly enforced and not only target few strug- gling truck owners while leaving behind large fleet of substandard truck owners," said Ramadhani who owns six semi trailer trucks used to transport containers from Dar es Salaam port to 17 inland container depots in the neighbourhood. Mr Ramdhani said a similar directive some years back failed because big business people owning fleets of substandard trucks success- fully resisted the directive.

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