“We have heard all the questions, found all the answers, and now we just need to decide how to put them into practice,” said Barney Curtis of the Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations (Fesarta), talking about the Beitbridge problem. That has evidenced itself in serious congestion at the bridge’s two border posts – with border queues at times stretching for up to 14 kilometres, and trucks taking days, and not hours, to cross the Limpopo. The first step in the Fesarta process to remedy the problem has been extensive discussions over the years about the problem issues with regional players such as SADC, Comesa and the World Bank. “All of this,” said Curtis, “to find the solutions to the problems which had been brought to our attention by the transporters in the region.” A workshop scheduled for this week hopes to get the next steps decided in putting suggestions into practice through government department promulgation procedures. It is being funded by the Regional Trade Facilitation Programme (RTFP) led by Mark Pearson and funded by the British donor agency DFID.
Workshop addresses Beitbridge congestion
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