Tanga City Council has announced grand plans to promote the city’s investment opportunities in a bid to reclaim the region’s lost industrial greatness.
The council has initiated an exclusive media campaign to lure in more investors and transform Tanga Region once more into the industrial powerhouse it once was in the early to middle years after independence.
To increase employment as well as the economic profile of the city and region, a special marketing campaign that began in July of this year is designed to entice investors to build industries.
Tanga City Director Dr Sipora Liana made this statement at a press conference held by the Council. After Dar es Salaam, Tanga, according to her, was indeed Tanzania’s largest industrial city.
The majority of industries, according to Dr Liana, have all but disappeared, leaving those structures abandoned. We’re adamant about regaining that industrial profile.
Several years ago, the country’s stores were dominated, according to information available here, by Tanga manufactured goods. Documentary proof suggests that Tanga had many productive processing factories in the early years of independence. They included metal processing factories; Kilimanjaro Blankets,
Gossage, which produced shirts; a fertiliser processing factory, Amboni Plastics, a soap manufacturing factory, which produced Mbuni and other soap brands; Singh Saw Mill and Kilan Industries, which owned several processing factories.
The City Director said the move to restore that glorious development was quite feasible; referring to a similar drive she supervised at Mkuranga that has made the Distract become a significant industrial giant.
“The council has allotted 5,635 hectares for industrial development, according to Dr Sipora, and investors have begun flocking to Tanga to purchase the plots on which to establish businesses.
to the sources, mass-manufactured goods were produced more efficiently and successfully and cost-effectively than they were arguably anywhere else in the nation.
The region’s economic history began during the 16th century when Portuguese traders established a trading post there. Despite the defeat of the Portuguese by the Sultanate of Oman in the 18th century, Tanga remained an important port for the trade of ivory and slaves.
That Tanga was what the Germans discovered when they purchased the Tanganyika coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1891, according to historical documents made available here. Before the establishment of Dar es Salaam in the 20th century, Tanga served as both the first German settlement in East Africa and the administrative hub for the German colonial government.
The Germans constructed a railway line to improve domestic transportation. They also constructed a port to make exports easier.
With a 241-kilometre coastline, a port that is currently being upgraded to accommodate larger ships and eliminate double handling, dependable water and power supplies, and access roads to all regions of Tanzania and beyond, she claimed that the City is well-positioned to regain its status as an appropriate location for industrial investment.
Dr Sipora mentioned some of the most eye-catching investment opportunities as being in the mining sector, where current output levels do not match potential.
The current output for the limestone and cement industries is 6,000 tonnes. She stated that the city, for example, has over 200 hectares of land suitable for the development of cement and limestone industries. She went on to say that the Blue Economy’s potential has not been fully realized.
“This sector can support fishing and fish processing ventures beginning with the establishment of hotels to take advantage of the beautiful beaches available along the 241 km sea coastline.” In terms of preparations for receiving those investors, Dr Sipora stated that the Council was well prepared because the government had done its homework.
It had already established a one-stop centre through the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC).
