One-stop border cuts truck waiting time

The construction of the One
Stop Border Post (OSBP)at
Kasumbalesa has reduced truck
waiting times considerably.
According to the Walvis Bay
Corridor Group, queues have
been reduced from a distance of
5.5km of trucks to only 800m,
with at least 600 trucks being
cleared a day at the border post
between Zambia and the DRC.
With the OSBP method,
people and goods enter one
country and exit another,
speeding up processes
significantly as they move
through a single facility housing
all the officials from both
countries.
The WBCG recently visited
the border post and found that
major progess had been made.
Commodities such as copper,
vehicles as well as consumer
goods and perishables are mostly
transported along this route.