Yesterday in Dodoma, in the presence of the President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan, the President and Director General of the Tanzania Ports Authority, Ernest J. Mangu and Plasduce M. Mbossa, have signed three agreements with the terminal operator DP World of Dubai concession contracts under which the Middle Eastern company will manage some quays in the port of Dar es Salaam for the 30 years and will invest in the African port of call in order to ensure its development.

In recent months, the planned agreement with DP World had aroused the protests of various political forces and representatives of the citizens, the raising of shields to which President Samia yesterday implicitly replied by pointing out that 'the port investments have taken into account the views of the expressed by the various social groups as well as by all laws and the country's procedures', in particular - he specified - pursuant to Article 2 of the Public-Private Partnership Act No. 6 of 2023 and Article 2 of the Public Procurement Act No. 5 of 2023.

With the agreements, quays 4-7 of the port, which are dedicated to the container traffic, are assigned to the management of the DP World, while docks 0-3 will be jointly managed by the company and the Tanzania Ports Authority. The latter, meanwhile, is looking for another operator who will be in charge of operate the second container terminal at the Port of Dar es Salaam, occupying quays 8-11, with a procedure initiated last year. August with the call for expressions of interest.