Visa Information

Learn up-to-date visa requirements for over 150+ nationalities.

Travel is allowed with restrictions
Proof of negative pre-departure COVID-19 test result is not required for vaccinated travelers
Quarantine is not required for vaccinated travelers
Mandatory health surveillance form for Zanzibar
Mandatory proof of COVID-19 vaccination for Tanzania
A passport is required to enter Tanzania
Masks are recommended in public
Visa on arrival
Electronic visitor visa

Port Restrictions

Tanga is a remote port and any crew (ON/OFF) to have domestic flight from Dar Es Salaam.
Hence, it may over cost by performing husbandry activities in Tanga if vessel have any calls to other normal ports like Dar Es Salaam or Zanzibar.
Currently no restrictions for fully vaccinated ON/OFF signers in any of the Tanzanian ports.
pls be advised that Tanga is a port North of Dar es Salaam about 460km from Dar es Salaam.
Tanga Airport is a domestic Airport served from Dar es Salaam either by Road and or Dar es Salaam (Julius Nyerere International Airport JNIA) and Zanzibar (Abeid Aman Karume International Airport AAKIA).
Crew should arrive at either of Airports and pick domestic flight to Tanga or take a Road Transport from Dar es Salaam to tanga. Upon arrival at Tanga, the crew may stay in a Hotel over night or take a Launch and proceed to the vessel if time permits as no night launch service
While booking the air tickets for off signers please make sure that the respective airline accepts the Pax without covid19 test negative OTHERWISE it takes two days minimum to get the results in Tanzania. Cost for...

Passengers are subject to a COVID-19 test upon arrival at their own expense and self-isolation at their own expense until they receive a negative test result, if they do not have

a COVID-19 vaccination certificate showing that they were fully vaccinated. Vaccines accepted are: AstraZeneca (SK Bioscience), AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria), Covaxin, Covishield, Covovax, Janssen, Moderna (Spikevax), Nuvaxovid (Novavax), Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty), Sinopharm, Sinovac and Sputnik V; or
a negative COVID-19 NAAT or RT-PCR test taken at most 72 hours before departure from the first embarkation point. The test certificate must have a QR code.
This does not apply to passengers younger than 13 years.

Last updated on 30th Mar 2022

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