Urban transport is offering very
real opportunity to the project
cargo sector – especially in East
Africa. According to Deanne de
Vries, senior vice president for Agility
Africa, while many don’t think of
urban transportation when they talk
about breakbulk and project cargo,
it’s creating real opportunity for the
logistics industry.
“Urban transport projects
not only offer opportunities to
project logistics companies, but
decongesting cities helps traffic
flow which ultimately means
goods get to their end customer
or the port of export more quickly,
making the life of the logistics fleet
manager easier,” she said.
Several urban transportation
projects have been undertaken in
East Africa in the past few years.
The Nyere Bridge over the
Dar es Salaam bay opened in
April 2016 while the first phase
of the Dar es Salaam Rapid
Transit (DART) system started
operations in May 2016.
Closer to home the longest
suspension bridge in Africa (3km) is
currently being built in Maputo as
part of a larger plan which includes
a ring road around the city, two
new main roads out of the city, and
rehabilitation of five existing bridges
in Mozambique.
