Arusha, Kigoma and Rumonge ports in Tanzania and Burundi respectively may get funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for their upgrading plans, according to the East African Community (EAC) secretariat. The Bujumbura Port, the main...
South Africa’s trade deficit for July 2012 increased by R1bn to R6.7bn, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) said on Friday. Exports in July increased by 2.9% (R1.8bn) to R63.5bn. A country reaches a trade deficit when it imports more goods than it...
The wage talks currently taking place between the Road Freight Employers’ Association (RFEA) and four transport unions are at a stalemate as no agreement can be reached. Catherine Larkin of the RFEA says that after two days of negotiations,...
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) spokesman, Lawrence Venkile, said a power failure late on Wednesday caused railway signaling and over head power lines to be affected, thus resulting in the cancellation of five long distance trips. The...
Activity at Entebbe Airport came to a standstill recently as Africa’s first 787 Dreamliner made its maiden flight to Uganda to complete a trip dubbed ‘The Dream tour’. Ethiopian Airlines becomes the first African airline to own...
The planned haulage of petroleum products by rail from Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) jetties in Lagos to Kano may not be realisable after all, LEADERSHIP has gathered. Also affected in this policy delay is the movement of people...
Revelations that the country’s road network is over 40 years old yet the lifespan of a road is 20 years means almost the entire road network now requires rehabilitation, notes Tinashe Madava. Many times, the Zimbabwean public has compared the...
The Tete-Nacala railroad, passing through Malawi, is the most appropriate solution to carry coal mined in Moatize, said the managing director of Vale Moçambique, a subsidiary of Brazilian mining giant vale, Ricardo Saad in Maputo Thursday. Saad...
In the early 1990’s, several of the larger transport operators in Southern Africa, decided to get together and form an association that would address problem issues such as permit difficulties, border delays and disparate road traffic legislation,...
1Â Â Participating Member in the COMESA/EAC/SADC Tripartite Surface Transport committees Right from the early days, when a few road transport associations formed the FRRFA, the road transport industry has been most pro-active in regional issues...
