CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT AND PROBLEM SOLVING IN EAST AND

SOUTHERN AFRICA

BARNEY CURTIS

FESARTA

(Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations)

W A Trade Hub, Accra, 21st Feb 2013

CHALLENGES

• Overlapping Mandates

• Immature Tripartite

• Lack of Coordination

• Slow Implementation

• Insufficient bankable projects

EAC5 members

COMESA20 members

SADC15 members

SACU5 membersComores Ethiopia

Djiboutti Libya?

Egypt Somalia

Eritrea Sudan

Burundi

Kenya

Rwanda

Uganda

Tanzania

DR Congo

Madagascar

Malawi

Mauritius

Seychelles

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Angola

Mozambique

SwazilandBotswana

Lesotho

Namibia

South Africa

Country Membership to Regional Economic Communities (RECs)

March 2009

TRANSPORT CORRIDORS

• Corridors determined by Tripartite. Were 10, in East and Southern Africa but now >17

• Grouped into clusters (East, Southern, North-South and Western), to avoid too many meetings

• Interventions to be corridor-based

• The TradeMarks (Eastern and Southern) play a major role in solving problems

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Selected Transport Corridors of Sub-Saharan Africa

CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT

• Only three operational corridor management institutions

• Set up differently – Governments with constitution, with MOU and private sector

• Having limited success in solving problems

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MAJOR PROBLEMS ALONG THE CORRIDORS

• Inefficiencies and extra costs to intraregional trade

• Lack of harmonization and standardization

• Road and border infrastructure in need of upgrading

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MAJOR PROBLEMS ALONG THE CORRIDORS

• Erroneous weighbridge readings due to poor infrastructure and/or operations

• Market access by transporters to different countries – Third Country Rule

• Immigration restrictions and visa difficulties for drivers

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FACILITATION INSTRUMENTS

• Three SADC Protocols

– Transport, Communications and Meteorololgy

– Trade (customs, rules of origin, etc)

– Trade in Services

• EAC supra-national Acts

• SADC Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan (RIDMP)

• Comprehensive Tripartite Trade and Transport Facilitation Programme

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INTERVENTIONS • Developing MOUs between countries

• Corridor Monitoring (TMSA, SSATP, JICA). Need information before intervention

• Tripartite experts groups working on 3rd party, transport liberalization, rucs, customs,road safety, abnormals, DGs,etc

• Setting up corridor management bodies

• Self regulation to improve compliance and public/private sector relations

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INTERVENTIONS • Operating a Tripartite Non-Tariff Barrier

system

• One-stop border posts being planned and implemented at most major borders – except Beitbridge. Politics

• Feasibility studies being done (Kazungula bridge, 2nd Tete bridge, Lusaka bypass)

• Integrated Border Management and Single Window processes to improve border efficiencies

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PROJECT LED BY LAST MEETING POSITION

CUSTOMS

Legislative procedures Adoption of RKC All Sep-13 To be implemented with WCO-ESA

Integrated border management CBM/IBM SADC Dec-13 Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi in progress

Single administrative document N/A

Transit bond Bond and Connectivity

SADC Feb-13 On-going development with NSC countries

3RD PARTY INSURANCE Interface Yellow Card with other systems

SADC 8 March 2012, Jo’burg, SA Getting response from Member States

ROAD USER CHARGES

Harmonize rucs in the Tripartite region

SADC 28 July 2009, Gaborone, Botswana

Member States submitted new data

VEHICLE REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS

Vehicle dimensions and equipment SADC 30/31 October 2008 Recommendations produced

Dangerous goods SADC 4/5 July 2011, Kampala, Uganda

Recommendations produced. Member States to respond on SA standards

Abnormal loads SADC 4/5 July 2011, Kampala, Uganda

Further information required from consultant and Member States

Vehicle fitness SADC 4/5 July 2011, Kampala, Uganda

Further deliberations by SADC

ONGOING TRADE FACILITATION PROJECTS

PROJECT LED BY LAST MEETING POSITION

LOAD LIMITS AND OVERLOADING CONTROL

SADC project SADC 30/31 October 2008 Recommendations produced

EAC project EAC 17-19 August 2011, Arusha, Tanzania

Recommendations with the EAC Parliament

MARKET LIBERALIZATION

SADC 11/12 December 2012, Durban, SA

Recommendation for quality, not quality. Member States to consider the options

SELF REGULATION

SADC 12 December 2012, Harare, Zimbabwe

Preparation for self-regulation pilot on the North-South Corridor

ROAD SAFETY

SADC 15 June 2011, Gaborone, Botswana

Preparations for the launch of the UN Decade of Action

SSATP 10 December 2012, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Laying the groundwork for future interventions on road safety

DRIVER IMMIGRATION AND TRAINING

SADC 5 July 2011, Kampala, Uganda

Development of guidelines for professional driving permit

CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT

Eastern Corridors Cluster SADC 9 February 2012, Nampula, Mozambique

Adoption of the Southern Corridors Cluster

Southern Corridors Cluster SADC 30/31 March 2011, Walvis Bay, Namibia

General matters agreed by Ministers

NON-TARIFF BARRIER SYSTEM

• System housed in each of the three RECs

• Complaints registered by anyone, against governments or others, that compromise efficient transport along the corridors

• Over 500 complaints , 80% from SADC region

• RECs and FESARTA negotiate with relevant member states to solve the road transport complaints

• SMS sticker system about to be launched

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533 ZIMRA Vic Falls requiring SA trailers being imported into Zambia, to be loaded on other trailers

534 Mozambique officials at Machipanda border discharged 4 fire extinguishers

535 536

12-Oct-12 Gavin Kelly gkelly@rfa.co.za SA CBRTA is requiring two cross-border permits to take one load from SA to Namibia

548 30-Nov-12 Heather Carr-Hartley

chobe@mega.bw Botswana Vet. Services requires permit purchased from Gabs and original carried on truck

549 30-Nov-12 Willie du Toit md@intracom.com.na Matola council is requiring transporters to purchase a permit at a cost of approx. US$80 per trip

551 30-Nov-12 Les Robey ceo@toa.co.zw Zimbabwe is levying a toll fee for the Victoria Falls bridge

553 30-Nov-12 Saif Seif seif@superdoll-tz.com ZAMESCO is forcing transporters to park in their yard at a cost of US$36 per day

561 19-Sep-12 TOA ceo@toa.co.zw Loads of copper from the North, are being hijacked in the Gauteng area

562 10-Dec-12 Paul Maiyo pmaiyo@siginon.com Kenya National Highway Authority (KENHA) is enforcing axle load limits instead of GCM limit

563 11-Jan-13 Wayne Smith irs@icon.co.za Zim authorities harassing transporter because tail lights were not in the right position

565 15-Feb-12 Derrick Gardner, CARS

agnes@carstransport.co.za Zambia has ruc for each town in Copperbelt. Transporters have to get for each one separately

566 13-Feb-13 Dave Thompson CTS

dthompson@ops.cts-east.co.za

Botswana traffic enforcing 2.5m width and 4.1 m height

NTB DATE REPORTED BY E-MAIL DESCRIPTION

SUCCESSES

• SADC produced Regional Infrastructure Development Master Plan

• MOUs between countries on corridors (Nacala, Beira, North-South, etc)

• Costs to upgrade major routes produced.

• Project Preparation and Implementation Unit (PPIU), to help produce bankable projects

• 36% time saving, 65% traffic increase over two years at Chirundu OSBP

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SUCCESS: EAC LOAD CONTROL PROJECT

• Project held to harmonize overloading control and load in the region

• Ministers of 5 member states agreed on most of the recommendations: 56 tons gcm, 22 metres overall length, 10 tons single axle, 18 tons tandem unit, 24 tons tridem axle unit

• Bill tabled in EAC Parliament

• Other RECs to ratify and make recommendations to member states

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SUCCESS: ROAD TRANSORT FORUM

• Road transport industry intervention because problems along corridors not being solved

• Problems and potential solutions tabled at a regional Truckers’ Forum in Jhb in 2012

• Solutions agreed and linked to the NTB system and Tripartite Action Plan (CTTTFP)

• Next Forum, Johannesburg, 17th-18th. Solutions to be specific, detailed, actionable

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SUCCESS: EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA ROAD TRANSPORT

CORRIDOR HANDBOOK • Started with newsletter for Dar es Salaam

Corridor. FESARTA decided for all corridors

• Set up Joint Venture with Fleetwatch publications. Produced first edition in 2011

• Keeping information updated but need funding to publish next edition

• What about including WA corridors, with funding from WA Trade Hub?

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