Government to retransfer working facilities from TPA to MSCL 

THE government will retransfer facilities to Marine Service Company Limited (MSCL) from the Tanzania Port Authority (TPA) in efforts to improve productivity, supervision and efficiency of the company.

The move is also expected to stimulate national maritime transportation and the blue economy. Some of the facilities are administration building, floating dock and workshops.

For about a decade now the MSCL has remained only with ship, thus holding it back in achieving its goals in ensuring safety and quality maritime transportation service delivery in a competitive market that requires the company to have sufficient infrastructures to meet the market demand.

Deputy Minister for Works and Transport, Mr Atupele Mwakibete revealed this recently during a launch of the new MSCL Board of Directors in Mwanza.

Mr Mwakibete directed the responsible officials from both TPA and MSCL to ensure that the retransfer of infrastructures is timely and in accordance with laws.

“MSCL has to own those infrastructures for its effectiveness and high performance, we need MSCL to play its marine transportation facilitation role backed by enough infrastructural system,” he explained.

Equally, MSCL Board of Directors Chairman, Mr John Mbungo, pointed out that MSCL currently depends on TPA infrastructures, a situation that impedes its smooth operations, hence called upon the government to speed up the process of transferring the facilities ownership.

MSCL Marketing Manager, Mr Anselm Namala said the transfer of the working facilities including slip way among others will help in serving more people as the company was looking forward to extending its operations from not only dealing with the three major lakes, namely Victoria, Nyasa and Tanganyika but also to the Indian Ocean so that MSCL can act as a catalyst for the blue economy advancement and income generation at large.