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.