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Vifaa vilivyonunuliwa kutoka Marekani - Washington State na moja ya kampuni za usafiri kwa Dola laki nne kwa zote mbili ambapo vitakapowasili vitatoa huduma za usafiri kati ya Zanzibar na Dar.
Boti hizi zilitengenezwa mwaka 1989
na kila moja ina uwezo wa kubeba abiria 250 ziliwahi kuwekwa kwenye
mtandao wa E bay kwa bei ya Dola laki tatu kila moja lakini hazikupata
wateja. Zilipotengenezwa mwaka 1989 ziligharimu Dola milioni tano.
The state
finally has sold two of its discarded passenger-only ferries, the
Kalama and the Skagit, to the African nation Tanzania.
The
ferries have been docked and inactive since September 2009. The
Legislature ordered the state to get out of the passenger-only ferry
business in '06.
The two
ferries had been sold to a boat broker in Port Coquitlam, B.C., which
sold them to Tanzania. They will be put in service between the mainland
of Tanzania and the Zanzibar archipelago. They were sold for $400,000
combined, far below the $900,000 value the state said they were worth in
December 2009.
Marta Coursey, spokeswoman for Washington State Ferries, said the two boats will be taken to Africa by cargo ship.
The state
had hoped to sell the two 112-foot boats locally, but when that failed,
it placed them for auction on eBay, asking $300,000 each, with no
success. The ferries were built in New Orleans and purchased in 1989 for
$5 million.
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Ferry
historian Steve Pickens said the Kalama and the Skagit were the first
two passenger-only boats the state built. They were supposed to go into
service in 1989 but were tied up because there was no money to run them.
Following the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, the two vessels were sent
to San Francisco and served commuters crossing the bay while the city's
bridges were r
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