Full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area could add more than US$450 billion to Africa’s GDP by 2035.
However, realising this opportunity will ultimately require Africa to strengthen the cross-border infrastructure required to move goods, money and data at scale.
At the centre of this growth is logistics.
While digital platforms make it easier than ever for a small business in South Africa to sell to a customer in Kenya or Nigeria, the transaction only succeeds if the physical movement of goods is reliable, predictable and fast.
- Read the rest of this opinion piece by Nelson Teixeira, managing director of Operations for FedEx in sub-Saharan Africa, in our “Columns”" section.
