East Africa
Cargo to and from Tanzania
A market and a gateway at the same time, served from two coasts.
Tanzania is unusual in this region because it is both a destination and a door. Dar es Salaam is the head of the Central Corridor and feeds Zambia, Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and the eastern DRC, which means a container landing there is as likely to be leaving the country as staying in it.
The northern regions complicate the picture usefully. Arusha and Moshi sit far closer to Mombasa than to their own principal port, and cargo for them often clears through Kenya and crosses at Namanga or Holili rather than travelling up from the coast. Choosing the gateway is a routing decision worth making deliberately, and it is one of the more common questions we get asked.
At a glance
- Dar es Salaam
- principal gateway
- Central
- corridor
- Mombasa
- gateway for the north
- Namanga
- border serving the north
How cargo reaches Tanzania
Principal routing
- Dar es Salaam
- Inland clearance
- Dodoma, Mwanza and inland Tanzania
Northern Tanzania, via Kenya
- Port of Mombasa
- Namanga or Holili border
- Arusha and Moshi
We don’t publish transit times against a route. Distance and corridor are geography; what a specific container takes depends on the border, the season and the vessel. Ask us and we’ll commit to a timing against your actual shipment.
Destinations we deliver to
Border posts on these routes
What moves on this lane
The commodities that dominate Tanzania’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.
Inbound to Tanzania
- Consumer goods and retail stock
- Construction materials
- Mining and industrial equipment
- Fuel and petroleum products
Outbound from Tanzania
- Agricultural produce and cashew
- Minerals and concentrates
- Cotton and sisal
- Horticulture, under reefer
What we handle for Tanzania
Britex has presence and yards across the thirteen countries we cover. The same six services apply on this lane as on every other.
Also in East Africa
Moving cargo to Tanzania?
Tell us the destination and what’s in the box, and we’ll come back with the routing and what it takes to get there.