Bollore Logistics Tanzania delivers UBUCOM’s iron coils to Burundi

August 28, 2017: A company that manufactures steel and alu-zinc building materials, UBUCOM has decided to choose Bollore Logistics Tanzania as its logistics partner for the transportation of 1,298 MT of iron coils to Burundi. Bollore Logistics teams in Tanzania joined hands with Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) transported the goods by trains.

This new transportation mode, relaunched by TRL in February, is a great success as more and more Burundian clients are using the rail transport mode to carry their goods. The success of rail transport is based on its high tonnage capacity in its wagons compare to trucks. The additional benefit is that the transportation costs optimisation. TRL had significantly reduced transportation costs for loose cargo by adding a service of protection for the cargo in special containers.

For this operation, TRL provided 20 wagons at a time to transport the iron coils from Dar es Salaam to Burundi. It took three days to carry the materials from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma Port by train. Operationally, the containers were first stripped, and then the iron coils were loaded onto the block wagons. Upon the arrival at Kigoma Port, the iron coils were offloaded from the wagons and loaded on a barge for the delivery of manufactured goods across the Lake Tanganyika to Bujumbura in Burundi. Bollore Logistics Tanzania successfully managed the entry clearance through Dar es Salaam port and also managed the entire transportation process to the job site in Burundi.

With this operation, Bollore Logistics Tanzania reaffirms its expertise with complex multinational transport in East Africa.