Dear Sir,
I am a Zambian business man right now here in Dar es Salaam trying to clear my cars for the past 8 days to no avail.These Tanzanian clearing urgents are just giving excuses that the system is not ok and sometimes not even answer our calls.
There dry ports corruption is too much that only people ‘ten percenting’ are clearing quickly.
I really wonder what these Zambian officials at the High commission are doing here in Tanzania.Are they just to get paid using our tax payers money?
This is the reason we voted PF in office but things still and seems to be the same.
I would suggest the government develope other ports like Bengela in Angola and Mozambique.
By copy of this letter I challenge the high commissioner to go around all dry ports in Tanzania and see how Zambians are suffering and becoming stranded.
We are not fools so this guys on our pay roll should help us.
Yours frustrated and stranded young business man.
Umulomo. Tanzania is not our country, so stop whinning. As for “I would suggest the government develope other ports like Bengela in Angola and Mozambique”, are you crazy? Those are not our countries as well. Wake up and try using Walvis Bay…
try and exhibit some intelligence. to me u sould like u dont think
Always the case anywhere where the zed embassy exists
Try buying through Autorec. You get your cars in Lusaka with no hustles. The travelling fatigue and , payments to agents side steppe. Hotel and feeding expensese non existent and reduced personal risks. Maybe expensive but the net resultds are to your advantage. Autorec is great
Hey man ! don`t cry in vein ! Let us know your frustration first. What is the matter with the Dar-es-Salam Port ? what is happening with your case ? Do not rush in condemning the Tanzanian custom officers. To my view and thinking, I think the Tanzania people have not done you anything wrong ! what do you need ? and the services will be provided to you accordingly. Relax Bwana!
Or become a rutialist since you are already in the Capital city of rituals
its the same everywhere. EVEN HERE AT INTERPOL AND RATSA THINGS ARE NOT OKEY like they say ”charity begins at home” i think some thing needs to be done at interpol and ratsa please decentralise RATSA AND INTERPOL
Open up the Angola route and these problems with Tanzania will finish. Now they can do anything because we have no where to clear our cars from. Zambia wake up.
Brother,
I would advise you on two things i am a business man aswell that collects car from dar.
1. You have used the wrong agents
2. Do you know were the offices of your agents are and which port your cars are
If you find it hard to deal with them contact me on [email protected] i will help you i cannot give out my number here. Inbox me and we can talk
How is this man shipping his cars and from where? If I was shipping motorvhicles to Zambia from Europe I would invest in a containers…. none of  this “roll on roll off” rubbish, too many thieves in Dar-es-salaam.
I still dont understand why people still go as far a Dar to fetch their vehicles. The best is Durban. That way your car comes on a carrier until beit bridge or chirundu. You will save a lot you zambians so stop complaining & blaming the embassy that is not your country.
The option of importing through Durban sounds attractive. Do you have info on contacts, agents, etc?
Ba LT or is it the complainant? let us use english GUYS!!!!!
Let him complain, thats his right.
Let him rot in TZ, why import cars? can’t you manufacture cars in your own country, called zambia? u mean the technology is so complicated for your understanding ? What does ur country export? can u even make a motor bike, very dull people
This must be his first imported car! No wonder the shakeup. Ask before you do anything Man. Need not travel on Taqua those killer buses to TZ.
sorry my dear
concord …………………
So what? , Is the Zambian Government incharge of running Tanzanian ports? Eish, this man is too ignorant, corruption is everywhere but you just have to research before you find an Agent to clear your vehicles
Ati thats the reason we voted for P.F. lol. just pay the ten percent atemwa soda as a swahili policeman would put it. u buy a car that expensive then you complain to say thanks. lobe u will rot.
hey my man its your fault for going there it is easier to pay your agent there to bring you cars to nakonde or mwami borders then you don’t get harassed, but becoz you want to show that you are a big business man you decide to go there…………
 this is wat you get wen you think that someone that you send from here will steal your money. Next time don’t go there ask from us who have stopped going there how we do it and you will realise that it doesnt hurt for you to have someone else do this for you.Â
Eish,that english is atrocious.If you can’t have a good grasp of english how are you going to understand the complicated business of clearing,forwarding and international commerce?.
I DON’T HEAR OF ANY CORRUPTION AT WALVIS BAY (NAMIBIA). SO, WHY NOT USE NAMIBIA INSTEAD OF TANZANIA OR ANY EQUALLY CORRUPT COUNTRY?
Ba mumbwe mulepelako abanenu good advice. Makandi yenu, just posting hateful comments. You need to grow up. Iwe English yaba wiso? fuseke.
I totally agree with you.This gentleman needs good advise not scolding him.He needs help despite our different educational back ground English is not our mother language.
You must be a fool to use TZ Â port us we use walvis bay u r lucky u stayed 8 days us we spent 3 weeks on top of that they stole lenses and a computor box for my truck
useless man you are the same people causing congestion on the streets of LSK. I hope those cars stay a further 1 year in dar aleast we will de-congest LSK by 7 cars.
too much of these second hand cars coming into zed and causing alot of accidents.
IWE “ZAMBIAN BUSINESSMAN” JUST VOTE TALIA AND STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT TANZANIAN AUTHORITIES AS IF THERE ARE NO OTHER OPTIONS. AS ZAMBIANS IT’S TIME WE REALISED THAN SA USED VEHICLES BOUGHT FROM CREDIBLE OUTLETS, OR THOSE IMPORTED FROM THE UK ARE MECHANICALLY BETTER AND MORE DURABLE THAN THOSE FROM JAPAN. WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND NAMIBIAN PORTS AS MORE ORGANISED DECENT PORTS OF ENTRY, ESPECIALLY FOR US AND UK IMPORTS. NOW, LET’S VOTE TALIA.
Am so sorry for the trouble you experienced! Â Next time please be advised to use Walvis Bay in Namibia. You can even pay a clearing agent to do the clearance for you. Corruption has s till not set in at Walvis Bay and we pray that it doesn’t. The roads in Namibia are also excellent – you have a highway from WB to Katima Mulilo and on to Lusaka. You also have excellent towns and hotels on the route where you can stop and rest and where you won’t have to pay bribes! The ports in Luanda, Angola is notoriously corrupt! It’s a no-go area – and the roads to Zambia are in a bad state of disrepair! Durban is too far!