The Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG) recently signed a membership agreement with the Southern Africa Shippers Transport and Logistics Council (SASTALC).

With cargo owners and logistics service providers as its members, SASTALC’s objective is to represent the interests of its members and the industry in all transport and supply chain matters, while collaborating with governments and other related associations to promote and support a globally competitive logistics climate throughout Southern Africa.

Siobhan Fox, WBCG Business Development Manager, says the WBCG is now in a better position to network and connect with personnel from the transport, logistics and shipping industries.

With southern Africa at the forefront of world-class transport infrastructure, it is the role of the WBCG to serve as a facilitation centre that drives improvement in operational efficiencies and to ensure integrated, safe, secure, reliable, sustainable and globally competitive supply chains.

The role of SASTALC is to understand, support and advocate the requirements of shippers, service providers and government on matters pertaining to national and regional freight, transport and logistics legislation and policy and procedures for infrastructure development.

The council aims to establish an innovative, collaborative, all inclusive public-private partnership for all role players across southern Africa supply chains, into global markets, with strategic focus on transport and logistics for shippers. This will complement the work of the WBCG in serving as a facilitation centre and one-stop shop coordinating trade along the Walvis Bay Corridors and linking Namibia and its ports to the rest of the southern African region.

Namibia’s ports and corridors are strategically positioned as transport hubs for regional and international trade between the Southern African Development Community, Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the world.

The WBCG serves as a one-stop shop for all enquiries pertaining to transport and trade, along its corridors, which includes the Port of Walvis Bay, the Trans Kalahari Corridor, the Trans-Caprivi Corridor, the Trans-Cunene Corridor, and the Trans-Oranje Corridor.