Plans to extend border opening hours

There are plans to extend the opening hours of the Katima Mulilo and Kasumbalesa border posts on the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi corridor to ten at night. This follows a meeting of the corridor’s technical committee. Other issues discussed were for the Democratic Republic of Congo to harmonise its axle load limits in alignment with Namibia and Zambia; the construction the strengthening and the widening of the Divundu bridge (which is expected to commence by September 2010); and for the Namibian government to expedite the legislation process of the One-Stop-Border- Post between Namibia and Zambia, according to Agnetha Mouton, business development officer for the Walvis Bay Corridor Group, which is acting as secretariat for what was previously known as the Trans Caprivi Corridor.