Transporting a ton of goods through the Northern Corridor – which runs from Mombasa to Kampala in Kenya – has reduced from US$3 400 to US$2 500 over the last five years, according to the 2015 East Africa Logistics Performance Survey
Conversely, the newly launched report points out that the cost of using the Central Corridor to transport the same volume of goods from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Kampala increased from $2 507 to $4 500 over the same period.
Tanzanian newspaper, Business Daily, cited Kenya Shippers’ Council chief executive, Gilbert Lagat, as attributing this discrepancy to collaborative government efforts, which have made the Northern Corridor more operationally efficient and thus reduced costs.
“With Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his counterparts Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda focused on improving business at the port of Mombasa and the Northern Corridor, the cost of cargo clearance has dropped,” Lagat reportedly said.
