Importing a car to Tanzania (Part 2)

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Not having had a chance to visit this new customs agent and not having them recommended properly either (after all Bhupesh, my shipping agent said, he hadn’t dealt with them either), I felt a little tense. But it was kind of promising that Roselyn from Malai took the initiative and called me in response to my email on Monday. We agreed I fax her all documents and then she’ll get back to me with. So I walked into town to find an internet café with fax service to send her my pile of papers. Today she called me again and said everything looked fine, but she needs the originals of the MOT certificate and some other papers to be able to start the process with the authorities. Now, sending documents by Tanzanian mail isn’t recommendable and Dar es Salaam was a frightening (and at least 4 hours long) coach journey away. But fortunately Chris, who was going to be placed as a 6 months short term volunteer on Zanzibar, was only doing one week of language training and going back to Dar on the weekend, so I told him about my venture and asked him to drop the papers on Monday at the Malai office. By now the 4 ½ weeks the vessel was supposed to take was over as well, but neither Roselyn nor Bhupesh had given me any inkling about this having happened. I kept on checking the news websites for any information about Somali pirates hijacking ‘Karijn’, the ship that was carrying my Musso. But as I couldn’t find anything, I was hopeful it was at least still on course for Dar…

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Comments

[Mwana Bunwenge]

so what happened to your musso?

[StephanVSO]

It's on the road!
Hi Mwana, I'm quite a bit behing with posting updates, but I'm trying to catch up now. The Musso is on the road and we've been travelling all around Tanzania, watch this space. Stephan