April 25, 2012 [Bloomberg] - Tanzania plans to establish a bulk petroleum-handling and storage facility at the Port of Dar es Salaam, according to the country’s port authority.
The Tanzania Ports Authority is seeking contractors to build the facility, it said in a statement published in the Dar es Salaam-based Daily News newspaper today. The project will involve the construction of custody transfer tanks, a piping system, manifolds and related facilities for bulk-fuel handling, it said.
The Petroleum Importation Coordinator Ltd., a company formed by oil marketers to manage the bulk procurement of petroleum products, said it intends to pre-qualify more companies to handle fuel purchases.
PIC Ltd., as the company is known, called for applications from companies that want to be pre-qualified to be eligible to bid for tenders to procure petroleum products under the bulk procurement system, it said in a separate statement today in the Daily News.
Companies will be pre-qualified mainly on their ability to procure 150,000 metric tons of petroleum products per month, according to the statement.
Tanzania began the bulk procurement system last year.
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