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Article: Productivity pays dividends: Dar es Salaam is recognised by the World Bank as one of Africa's most productive ports and, as the port's manager Jason Rugaihuruza explains, it is now perfectly placed to meet the various challenges ahead. Stephen Williams reports.(African Ports and Harbours)
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- African Business
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- August 1, 2006
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Twenty years ago, no one would take seriously the suggestion that Tanzania's main port at Dar es Salaam could ever represent a paragon of productivity. In the early 1990s, Dar es Salaam served as the principal port for the UN World Food Programme's response to southern and central Africa's severe drought and the resulting humanitarian relief effort made to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. Many thousands of tons of food aid--mainly the staple grain, maize--were shipped through the port for onward delivery by road and rail to Africa's interior.
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Yet the WFP's operations were frequently delayed by bottlenecks at the port caused by a ...