Bandari trains 9000 to boost ports safety, competition

Bandari College has trained some 9,000 port stakeholders in various port-related courses in the past year.

This is part of the initiative of promoting safer and more competitive ports for increasing revenues emanating from the port.

Bandari College Principal Dr Lufunyo Hussein said among those who benefited are Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) employees, government workers in institutions directly or indirectly related to the country’s ports, and the private sector.

“Bandari College is happy to have trained many of them, as this assures safety and speed of port operations and hence, promotes the marine economy,” Dr Hussein told ‘Daily News’ yesterday.

Those trained include about 1,000 students doing long courses, certificates and diplomas, and about 8,000 other different professionals and disciplines working in the transportation business directly or indirectly linked with Tanzania’s ports.

The trained areas were freight clearing and forwarding, supervisory management, and cargo foreman. Other areas of training include operating heavy port equipment for cargo loading and unloading in ships, trucks, and rail wagons.

Dr Hussein explained further that such training aimed at supplementing the government’s efforts of improving and expanding increasing the country’s ports’ competitive edge.

Other beneficiaries of the refresher courses according to him are the employees in major mining sites of Geita, North Mara, and Bulyanhulu gold mines.

At yesterday’s graduation 839 students were conferred with basic technician certificates and ordinary diplomas in various port-related disciplines.