Following the recent summit held in Lilongwe, Malawi, the heads of state and government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are positive the Tripartite Free Trade Area, to be established by 2015, will enable greater intra-African...
The resolution of the Kariba bridge NTB is not an isolated event. Nearly three quarters (74.6%) of all NTBs that have been logged in the last four years through Tripartite’s online NTB reporting and monitoring tool have been resolved, says Vonesai...
Port authorities in South Africa and Mozambique have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will see Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) and the Maputo Ports Development Company (MPDC) co-operating together. Tau Morwe, TNPA’s chief...
At this week’s sitting of the East African Legislative Assembly, the regional legislators passed the One Stop Border Posts Bill 2012 which now goes to the EAC heads of state for consideration. Debate on the Bill was preceded by the tabling...
The total number of non-tariff barriers affecting business within the Comesa, EAC and SADC regions is 566. Sixty of these are dealt with by Fesarta (Federation of East and Southern Africa Road Transport Associations),as these are only those that...
Without a doubt, the Truckers’ Forum 2012, the first-of-its-kind workshop held to tackle problem issues along East and Southern Africa’s transport corridors and to find solutions, was a great success. But it’s not over yet! The forum was not...
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa announced that it is to implement a pilot project on Virtual Trade Facilitation System in the Djibouti Corridor of Ethiopia. According to State Minister for Finance and Economic Development Ahmed...
Africa plans to create a 26-nation free trade area by integrating three existing African trade blocs by July 2014 are on track and the only major sticking point is likely to be harmonising rules of origin, the three blocs have said. In recent...
The Tripartite panel of experts meeting held in Kigali from 29th-31st May 2012, and was the 3rd meeting following the 2 held in Gaborone and Kampala. The meeting was fully funded by TradeMark South Africa (TMSA), including all delegates’ travel...
