Members of the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) should soon have access to information on global trends of relevance to cargo movements on the route following its admission as a member of the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Alliance (Gica).
Gica is an initiative launched by the G20 that aims to enhance cooperation and synergies of cross-border infrastructure and trade facilitation programmes to improve connectivity within, between, and among countries. The Gica secretariat is hosted by the World Bank with its offices in Singapore.
“The benefit of membership of Gica for MCLI is that we will have access to a resource library of key content on infrastructure connectivity, a community of expertise, discourse and best practice on a range of issues, including policy development and project conceptualisation, which are shaping global connectivity,” says MCLI chief executive officer Barbara Mommen in a note to members.
She says it is hoped that Gica resources can be used to remove an MCLI “roadblock” caused by a “lack of a readily accessible platform internationally that captures relevant information and provides opportunities for stakeholders at the global, regional, national and local level to engage in a multidisciplinary conversation on the current and emerging challenges, and seek collaboration among a variety of connectivity-related initiatives”.
