New face to market WBCG in Lusaka

Andrew Sinyangwe has taken
over the running of the Walvis
Bay Corridor Group office in
Lusaka.
Multi-lingual Sinyangwe grew
up in Ndola and spent some time in
the logistics industry before going
into a family business. He is now
back in the logistics industry, where
his command of five languages –
including French and English – will
help him market the corridors.
The Lusaka office is responsible
primarily for marketing and
promoting the port of Walvis Bay and
the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi
Development Corridor (WBNLDC –
formerly known as the Trans Caprivi
Corridor) in the DRC, Zambia and
Zimbabwe. He is also responsible for
facilitating trade along the WBNLDC
through strategic partnerships with
the public and private sectors under
the umbrella of the WBNLDC
Technical Committee Meeting
comprising members of the DRC,
Namibia, and Zambia.
“We facilitate meetings between
the various ministries of the three
member states in order to remove
bottlenecks and challenges along the
Corridor,” he says.
The Walvis Bay Corridor Group
has opened up another option for
the shipment of cargo to and from
Zambia.
With additional shipping lines
calling at the Port of Walvis Bay,
and the increase of copper exports
from the Copperbelt and the DRC,
there has been an increase in trucking
capacity along this route, which
has translated into the reduction of
transport costs, he says.
Commodities along this trade route
include the import of raw materials
such as ammonium nitrate and
flocculent used in mining activities
on the Copperbelt and in the North
Western Province.
The WBNLDC has also become
the preferred trade route of registered
car dealers in Zambia for the
importation of vehicles from the UK,
USA and Japan.
“It is also a much safer route
for exports of copper and other
high-value commodities from the
Copperbelt to the Americas and
Europe,” he says.