Africans can look forward to
some major improvements to the
region’s North-South Corridor
following the ending of the
Regional Trade Facilitation
Programme (RTFP) in October.
Established six years ago as
part of an initiative by the World
Trade Organisation’s Regional
Aid for Trade, the RTFP was
directly mandated to improve
the efficiency of the North-South
Corridor, which runs from Durban
to the Zambian copperbelt, DRC,
Malawi and the port of Dar es
Salaam.
“An excess of $1.2 billion has
been pledged by international
donors to the RTFP to improve the
corridor. Many programmes have
been launched and it certainly has
established a secure foothold from
which to move forward,” says
Barney Curtis, executive director
of the Federations of East and
Southern African Road Transport
Associations (Fesarta).
North-South Corridor gets $1.2bn upgrade
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