Scania Tanzania Ltd has made an announcement about its CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) buses and why they would be ideal for the Tanzanian market and especially for BRT city buses.
Speaking during the announcement at their head office in Dar es Salaam, the Managing Director of Scania Tanzania, Lars Eklund said, as Tanzania is working towards becoming more industrialized, it is important that efficiency becomes key and that the environment is not forgotten along the process.
“We believe that Tanzania needs to adopt world tested technologies and move at the same pace with other developed countries,” he added.
Tanzania has huge reserves of Natural Gas and needs thousands of city buses for the BRT systems which Scania can deliver.
Scania has since managed to deliver the CNG gas buses for quite a while and have delivered them in different parts of the world like South America, Europe and Australia among others.
The CNG driven buses come equipped with a “green” Euro 6 compliant engine that reduces the CO2 up to 20%. Buses fitted with these engines also produce less particles and lower emissions in the air and are also very efficient in terms of fuel consumption and can thus achieve lower operational costs.
This partnership will benefit the passengers in terms of low ticket prices, income for the government to sell local Natural Gas, and an advantage for the operators too to cut their operational costs.
