How Kara Traders Supplies Large Projects Across Tanzania

A large site does not fail because one socket set was late. It fails when tools, PPE, pumps and instruments arrive as six separate orders, from six sellers, with no one accountable for the next month. Kara Traders was built for that kind of work. From a family shop in Shinyanga in the late 1970s, the company now supplies contractors, mines, roadworks and plants in all 26 regions of Tanzania, and has supported more than 500 major projects.

One partner for the life of the job

For long or large jobs we offer a project supply agreement. Pricing can be held, stock is planned against the programme, and the procurement team has one Dar es Salaam counter — Corner of India and Zanaki Street — instead of chasing mixed containers. That model covers construction and civil works, mining and quarrying, roadworks, manufacturing plants, and energy and utility sites.

• Hand tools, power tools and workshop equipment, including exclusive King Tony distribution in Tanzania
• Precision measurement such as Mitutoyo, and electrical instruments such as Fluke
• Welding equipment from Telwin, and water pumps from Pedrollo
• Safety wear, ladders, material handling, hardware and plumbing lines from a catalog of more than 5,000 products

Stock in Dar es Salaam, delivery to site

Head office stock is held in Dar es Salaam so a crew in the city or up-country is not waiting on a fresh import for every consumable. The reputation the company points to is practical: supplying some of the largest organisations in the country, from port works to cement plants, and still answering a quote within one business day.

If you are writing a bill of materials for a new camp, a plant shutdown or a multi-year civil package, send it through the catalog. We map it to lines we actually hold, and we say so when something has to be sourced.