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Local importers threaten to boycott Dar port over theft

Local businessmen have threatened to give up importing goods through Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port and switch to Kenya’s Mombasa, because of the persistent loss of goods in transit. Several local importers, who spoke to The New Times claim to have lost goods worth millions at the port and have not been compensated.
CHANGING LANES: A transit goods truck crosses into Rwanda through Gatuna. Local importers have threatened to stop using Dar es Salaam to import goods.
CHANGING LANES: A transit goods truck crosses into Rwanda through Gatuna. Local importers have threatened to stop using Dar es Salaam to import goods.
Times Reporter