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Tanzania

12 crossings between 7 ports, run by 5 operators, serving 7 cities. The busiest city is Zanzibar with 245 destinations, and the busiest port is Zanzibar with 5 crossings. 16 airports carry scheduled service, so most of this network can be left by air as well as by sea.

Cities

7 cities, each showing everything it reaches across every terminal and airport that serves it.

Zanzibar reaches 245 destinations
Dar es Salaam reaches 204 destinations
Arusha reaches 20 destinations
Mwanza reaches 17 destinations
Tanga reaches 16 destinations
Chake Chake reaches 13 destinations
Mto wa Mbu reaches 9 destinations

The ports that matter

Ranked by how many crossings each carries. The first is 1.7× the second.

Zanzibar crossings 5 crossings on record
Tanga crossings 3 crossings on record
Mkoani crossings 3 crossings on record
Dar es Salaam crossings 3 crossings on record
Mwanza crossings 2 crossings on record
Mbamba Bay crossings 1 crossings on record
Bukoba crossings 1 crossings on record

Who runs the boats

5 operators appear in Tanzania crossings.

The longest and the shortest

1 of 12 crossings carry a time.

Longest held

Mkoani – Tanga 1 h 30 Zan Fast Ferries

Shortest held

Mkoani – Tanga 1 h 30 Zan Fast Ferries

Every crossing we hold

All 12 of them, alphabetically, 25 at a time. Each has its own page.

Bukoba – Mwanza not held MV Victoria
Dar es Salaam – Malindi Port not held Azam Marine
Dar es Salaam – Mkoani not held Azam Marine
Dar es Salaam – Zanzibar not held Azam Marine
Mbamba Bay – Nkhata Bay not held MV Songea
Mkoani – Tanga 1 h 30 Zan Fast Ferries
Mkoani – Zanzibar not held Zan Fast Ferries
Mombasa – Zanzibar not held Azam Marine
Mwanza – Port Bell (Kampala) not held MV Mwanza
Pemba Island – Tanga not held Azam Marine
Pemba Island – Zanzibar not held Azam Marine
Tanga – Zanzibar not held Azam Marine

Which months these run

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for Tanzania ferry crossings were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.