Kamal Group welcomed a high-level Japanese delegation to Kamal Industrial Estate in Bagamoyo as part of the Bagamoyo Study Tour. The delegation was led by His Excellency Mr. Yoichi Mikami, Ambassador of Japan to the United Republic of Tanzania, and was accompanied by a team from the Tanzania Investment and Special Economic Zones Authority (TISEZA).

The delegation was received by Mr. Sameer Santosh, Managing Director of Kamal Group, who briefed the visitors on the Group's industrial operations and investment footprint at the estate, including its refining, energy and manufacturing activities, and on Bagamoyo's potential as an industrial and logistics hub for East Africa.

The 29-member delegation brought together representatives of leading Japanese trading houses, shipping lines, development agencies and industrial firms, including Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui & Co., Sumitomo Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, ITOCHU Corporation, Sojitz East Africa, Marubeni-Itochu Steel, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), Makita Corporation, Nippon Koei, TANJA Corporation, SP Japan Limited, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), among others.

Discussions focused on opportunities for Japanese investment and partnership in Tanzania's industrial sector, supply-chain and logistics collaboration, technology transfer, and JICA's Kaizen and business development programmes. TISEZA representatives, including Mr. Kazufumi Tanaka, Director of the Business Development Division (JICA), outlined the incentives and facilitation available to investors in Tanzania's special economic zones.