DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 8 -- THE government has saved a total of 225.6bn/- over the past four years by tightening controls on fuel importation and reception through the installation of advanced monitoring systems, including flow metres and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) technology.

This type of industrial control collects data from sensors and equipment located across a facility or across long distances (pipelines, power grids) and then monitors conditions and processes, controls equipment remotely, alerts operators to issues and logs data for reporting, analysis an compliance.

This cost-saving measure, equivalent to about 56.4bn/- annually, was achieved by curbing fuel losses that previously occurred at the oil jet termin...