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ABOUT VIASERVICE FINANCIAL SERVICES
(TANZANIA) LTD

VIASERVICE serves the entire logistics and transport chain through its expertise and strategic
partnerships, by driving innovative services and agnostic solutions, both addressing the
digitalization and innovation needs of the “logistics of the future“. We offer disruptive solutions for
the entire transportation industry, throughout the logistics chain, such as Container Guarantee
solution, and other innovative products and services.

Approximately ninety percent of the world’s goods are transported by sea. Considering the
increasing importance of sea transport as main conveyor belt for goods, there are continuous efforts
at global and other levels to ensure competitiveness of this mode. Key to this is ensuring that both
the interests of the carriers (shipping lines) and sea transport users (freight forwarders and shippers)
to ensure sustainable and competitive sea transport.

With over 70% of the sea freight containerized, containers are predominantly very critical transport
units. Therefore, for the supply chain to remain efficient and fluid, containers must be safeguarded
and turned around efficiently. Currently, the containers are delayed in return, damaged or lost
while in hands of the transport users. This results in losses to shipping lines and inefficient
transport logistics services and imposition of various requirements such as cash deposits which
suppress the financial liquidity and competitiveness of the container user. This undermines the
overall objective of trade facilitation.

Container guarantee In East Africa, like in many other parts of the world, container deposit has been
flagged as a trade barrier by both private and public sector at national and regional level.
VIASERVICE provides a sustainable solution that addresses the concerns of both the carriers and
the container users, the container guarantee.

The solution is supported and hailed by all transport logistics and institutional stakeholders as a
lasting cure for the container deposit trade barrier.

Since last year, the solution is operational in Tanzania through which all the countries using the port
of Dar es Salaam are served. Plans are underway to rollout the solution across Africa and in other
parts of the world.