Tanzania targets January opening for Kurasini Logistics Park

Saturday 14th November 2026

By inAfrika Newsroom

Tanzania’s transport ministry is targeting January 2027 for Kurasini Logistics Park to start operating. Transport Minister Makame Mbarawa directed three agencies on 12 November to accelerate work on the roads that will connect the park to Dar es Salaam port.

The site occupies the former Export Processing Zones Authority area in Kurasini. The ministry plans to move some document checks and container scanning there, taking part of the clearance process outside the port. Mbarawa issued the directive during an inspection of the project and addressed it to the Tanzania Ports Authority and the two agencies responsible for trunk and local roads.

The January target comes after the port authority reported in August that Mbarawa had asked for operations to begin in November. The ministry’s latest announcement did not give an opening day in January or a timetable for completing each road link.

The ministry put expected first-phase capacity at 150,000 and the second phase at 550,000 a year, for a combined 700,000 a year once both phases are complete. The port authority has previously reported project capacity in twenty-foot equivalent units, the standard measure that counts a 40-foot box as two units.

Dar es Salaam Port director Abed Gallus said the port handled more than 1.3 million containers last year and expected more than 1.5 million in 2026, according to the ministry. Mbarawa said the private investor developing the park also operates the port’s second container terminal.

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