VISTOR'S GUIDE KIGOMA UJIJI

KIGOMA UJIJI

2017

 

 

Map of Tanzania

Map of Kigoma

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. WELCOME: Mayor of Kigoma Municipal Council

II. KIGOMA: OPEN FOR BUSINESS

1. Why Kigoma?

a. Strategic Location

b. Youthful Population

c. Masterplanned Development

d. Infrastructure Development

e. Good Governance

f. Conducive Local Investment Climate

g. Managed Social Transformation

III. SUMMARY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

1. Kigoma Special Economic Zone (KISEZ)

a. Infrastructure Development and Management

b. Light and Heavy Industry opportunities

1. Palm Oil Refinery

2. Specialty Coffee Packaging

3. Hot Pepper Processing and Packaging

4. Maize Milling

5. Tapioca (Cassava) Flour Milling

6. Biomass Power Generation

2. International Trade

a. Ujiji City by Ling Hang Group Shanghai

b. The Great Lakes Gateway Market by PSPF

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3. Oil Palm Sector

a. Palm Biotech Research Center

b. Palm Estates for Lease

c. Palm Oil Mills

4. Luiche Delta Paddy Project

a. Paddy Farming

b. Paddy Processing and Storage Complex

5. Fishing Industry

a. Commercial Fishing

b. Fish Farming

c. Fish Processing Plant

6. Oil and Gas

a. Exploration

b. Services

7. Tourism

a. Gombe Cultural Tourism Village

b. Vacation Timeshare

c. Assisted Living Facilities

d. Hotels and Casinos

8. Education

a. International Academy

b. Polytechnic Institute

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9. Healthcare

a. Medical Tourism Hospital

b. Pharmaceuticals

10. Financial Services

a. Municipal Social Service Scheme

b. Banking and Financial Services

11. Sports and Entertainment

a. Kawawa Sports Academy

b. Mwami Ruyagwa Youth Center

c. Gungu Academy for the Performing Arts

IV. GUIDE TO DOING BUSINESS IN KIGOMA

1. Starting a Business

2. Register through Tanzania Investment Center (TIC)

3. Register a Foreign Company

4. Business License

5. Tanzania Revenue Authority

6. Banking

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KARIBU -- I. Welcome remarks from the Mayor

A warmly welcome from Kigoma Ujiji.

Thank you for taking time to explore opportunities in our bustling Kigoma Ujiji.

Right now, Kigoma is at a very special moment in time where different levels of

government and people are working hard, together and productively to achieve

the most ambitious growth and transformation targets in our history. We setting

out to capture the national and the world’s attentions to our grand ideas of

development and lucrative opportunities for investments.

Our new President HE John Magufuli has ushered a new era of fast tracked

development through industrialization and agriculture revolution. As a

Municipal we have made the choice to seize the moment and build on this

forceful momentum as we set ourselves for continued success.

As a new, young and vibrant Municipal Council, we have decided to do

things differently. We have embraced the fact that we are in competition

with municipalities from around The Great Lakes region fighting for the same

investments, the same industries, the same jobs and the same talent. We have

the best untapped investment opportunities but we have to draw many people

and businesses to Kigoma Ujiji to help us capitalize on all these opportunities

that are opening up. This is why our municipal is evolving to becoming a modern,

innovative and open government in order to provide the most efficient and

friendly services to our people and businesses.

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We have set out ambitious growth and development targets for near and long

term aimed at bringing positive change to both socio-economic Transformation

and the enabling environment. We are hedging our growth in Trade and reviving

the Oil Palm industry by making Kigoma Ujiji the regional trade hub and the

Palm Oil capital of Africa. We are investing heavily on trade and city infrastructure

to make Kigoma the most important and efficient trade hub of The Great Lakes

Region.

We can only achieve these ambitions with sustained investment in human

capital. The municipal is investing heavily in vocational training and higher

learning to both develop the best workforce and attract and retain more young

people to Kigoma.

We are targeting a $500 million city economy by 2020, and $1 billion by 2025.

This opens up plenty of investment opportunities for both public and private

sectors. This booklet is just to give you a glimpse of such opportunities.

We are building a city for everyone to want to live in – beautiful, vibrant,

affordable, safe and full of opportunities for everyone. We welcome you to be

part of this transformation story.

Karibu!

Hussein Juma Ruhava

Mayor – Kigoma Ujiji Municipality

-- KIGOMA UJIJI

KIGOMA OPEN

FOR BUSINESS

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II. KIGOMA: OPEN FOR BUSINESS

KIGOMA UJIJI Municipality is set to undergo rapid Economic Transformation of this century.

The Municipality has set ambitious medium term goals, one of which is to raise the value

of goods and services produced in the Municipality to $500 million by year 2020. This will

afford the people a per capita income of $1800, and a middle income status for the Kigoma

Municipality. This is no small feat, but Kigoma Municipality is ready and open for business.

Strategic Location

Kigoma Municipality is strategic located in the heart of the Great Lakes region.

Bordering Burundi and Rwanda to the North, DRC to the West and Zambia through

L. Tanganyika to the South, Kigoma Ujiji has always been an important trading port,

cultural center and political capital of East Africa since early 1500s. Connected to

the Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam through the Central Railway Line, newly

tarmac highways and airport, Kigoma offers unmatched logistics advantages

compared to other towns and cities in The Great Lakes Region. Kigoma has the

largest and busiest port on L. Tanganyika in terms of capacity and volume. The

majority of Eastern DRC trade in fast moving consumer goods and capital goods

pass through this port.

Youthful Population

Kigoma Ujiji Municipality population is youthful and rapidly growing. As early as

2030, more than half of Kigoma region population will be living and working in

Kigoma City and its surrounding metropole. This offers unmatched opportunity for

businesses looking for growing market and youthful workforce.

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Masterplanned Development

Kigoma Ujiji Municipality is a beautiful town of hills, valleys, long gold sandy

beaches, cliffs and lake scenery of mesmerizing charm. Ujiji Old City was at once the

largest and well planned development in the entire German East Africa territory.

Kigoma Municipality has embarked on a project that will see it reclaim its glorious

past through a comprehensive masterplan for a controlled urban development.

Once completed, the masterplan will be the blueprint for economic and social

transformation of the Municipality towards a middle income Metropolitan of the

future where businesses strive, jobs are created and social services are optimized.

Infrastructure Development

The Government of Tanzania has increased its infrastructure spending in the region

that has seen Kigoma region connected to the rest of the country and region

through world class infrastructure. This has and will open up Kigoma for the much

delayed economic boom.

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1. Standard Gauge Railway

The Government of Tanzania has broken ground on a $9.0 billion project

to upgrade The Central Railway Corridor, connecting the Port of Dar es

Salaam in the Indian Ocean to the Port of Kigoma on L. Tanganyika, and

later to Port of Mwanza on L. Victoria. This project will see freight volumes

increased and time cut in half, increasing efficiencies and making Kigoma

the preferred logistics hub of The Great Lakes Region given its strategic

location. Kigoma Municipality is anticipating this influx and is currently

developing Special Economic Zones and The Great Lakes Gateway

Project at Mwanga Market by merging existing Kigoma Mjini Market

and Mwanga Market into one with stalls, shops and International Honey

Auction and that will make doing business in Kigoma more competitive.

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2. Highways

Kigoma Ujiji is connected to Dar es Salaam Arusha and Nairobi through a world

class central highway, and to Bujumbura and Kigali through a northern highway. On

completion of Kasulu – Nyakanazi stretch of northeast highway, Kigoma will have

uninterrupted access to Mwanza – Jinja – Kampala and Mwanza – Kisumu – Nairobi

– Mombasa on yet another world class highway. Kigoma is also connected to Zambia

and Malawi through a southern highway passing through Tabora.

3. Ports

Kigoma Port is undergoing major upgrade that will see it retain its status as the largest

and busiest port on L. Tanganyika, connecting Tanzania, Burundi, DRC and Zambia.

Tanzania Ports Authority is also completing an upgrade of cargo and passenger jetty

at Kibirizi and the development of the Katosho Dry Port busy underway. Kigoma

Municipality has also set aside funds to develop Ujiji Jetty to serve the planned

logistics hub development at Ujiji Market. These development will undoubtedly

strengthen Kigoma position as the trade and logistics hub of the Lakes region for a

foreseeable future.

4. Airport

Kigoma airport received upgrades in 2015 that included runway extension and

apron construction. Currently two airlines – Air Tanzania and Precision Air – provide

scheduled flights at Kigoma airport.

5. Electricity

Kigoma Ujiji Municipality is offgrid and currently serviced by TANESCO diesel

generators with installed capacity of 11MW against peak demand of 4MW. Grid

connections are underway through the Northwest Grid (Geita – Nyakanazi – Kigoma)

with a 220KV, 500km transmission line that is expected to go live mid-2017. Likewise,

the Municipality has invested heavily on solar energy to power street lights and now

looking at solar power to dry fish at Kibirizi fishing port. Opportunities for biomass

power production are also available in both oil palm and paddy processing.

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Good Governance

Kigoma Ujiji Municipality is committed to promoting transparency, empower its citizens,

fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. As the only one

only Tanzania Local Government Authority (LGA), and one of the 69 subnational government

pioneers of the OGP pilot pioneer program, Kigoma has received a vote of confidence as

an LGA with committed political and working level reformers, and engaged and energetic

partners in civil society. Kigoma is receiving dedicated assistance and advice from the

OGP Support Unit and OGP Steering Committee to develop and fulfill independent open

government commitments in action plans, in partnership with civil society organizations.

Kigoma Municipality leaders will actively contribute to peer learning and networking

activities with other subnational governments. The commitments and short action plans

developed by the pioneers will be assessed by OGP’s Independent Reporting Mechanism

(IRM). Kigoma Municipality has signed a contract with the people of Kigoma that will act as

the accountability mechanism for its performance in good governance.

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Conducive Local Investment Climate

Kigoma is working hard to improve its investment climate in order to stimulate

private sector driven growth within the municipality and region at large. The Local

Investment Climate Project (LIC) is one such sustained efforts by the municipality

to improved conditions for sustained business growth and investment in Kigoma.

LIC project focuses on the critical constraints to business growth and economic

development at the sub-national level (LGA). It promotes regular and structured

dialogue between the local business community and LGAs and encourages a

practical response to the challenges of improving the conditions for private sector

development and poverty reduction at the local level.

As an LIC LGA, Kigoma has access to Small Industrial Facilitation Fund (SIFF), a $10m

fund with the objective of catalysing investments in local business facilities in

selected value chain and to unlock the flow of investments into the local economy.

The targeted SIFF business facilities can be owned by public entities such as an LGA,

private investors, or through partnership arrangements (e.g., PPP). SIFF provides

funds in three broad categories (i) local businesses (ii) business infrastructure

development and (iii) local business cluster.

(a) Local business facilities:

The SIFF will provide matching grant funds to support PPPs developing

strategic business facilities. In many cases, the lack of appropriate and fully

functioning business facilities hinders the operations and growth of local

businesses. Examples of the kinds of facilities the SIFF could support include

local business stalls, business sites, market places, cold storage, and business

incubators.

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(b) Business infrastructure:

While the SIFF will not have large volumes of funds typically required to support

infrastructural projects (e.g., roads, energy and water supply, irrigation), many