Transit-Trade Facilitation in the PMAESA Region

Facilitation audit (SSATP), from the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Programme Website (external links):

• Facilitation guidelines Sep 1993, Author:Carlos T. de Castro
• Trade and transport facilitation - a toolkit for audit, analysis and remedial action Dec 2001, Author:John Raven

Africa

In November 2000, PMAESA, The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), COMESA, SADC and the Transit Transport Co-ordination Authority (TTCA) jointly organised the Transit Transport Seminar for Eastern and Southern Africa, bringing together public and private stakeholders from the whole region, to exchange experience on corridor management.

Report of the Transit Transport Seminar for Eastern and Southern Africa Nov 2000 (216KB)

Eastern Africa

Links to Transport cost studies (U.S.A.I.D. website):

Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia) Comparative Cost of Transport: The Northern Tier Countries of the Greater Horn of Africa (Jul 1997):

• Executive summary (468K)
• Final report (3.1MB)

Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi) Comparative Transportation Cost Analysis in East Africa:

• Executive summary Jun 1996 (133KB)
• Final report Apr 1997(1MB)

Southern Africa

Links to Transport cost studies carried out in Southern African region (U.S.A.I.D. website)

Southern Africa Transport Networks: comparative transit transport cost analysis, Final report, Sep 2001 (2.5MB)

Southern African corridors: background information prepared for the SADC Transport Investment Forum (Namibia, Apr 2001):

Changing Transport for Growth and Integration in Southern Africa, (1MB) prepared by InfraAfrica (Pty) Ltd., Gaborone, Botswana, Feb 2001

Nacala Corridor: background information prepared for the Nacala Corridor Investment Conference, Feb 27-28, 2003 (Nacala, Mozambique)

Nacala Development Corridor (2.1MB)