Call for 'sea corridors' to move intra-Africa freight

Africa needs “sea corridors”

similar to the road corridors

in order to support growth

in intra-African trade,

according to Nozipho Mdawe,

secretary general of the Port

Management Association of

Eastern and Southern Africa

(PMAESA).

A start should be made

with smaller vessels moving

freight along the coastal

routes, which should be more

cost-effective than road or

rail, she told FTW.

An example is the export

of sugar from Swaziland to

Kenya by sea.

The question is why more

African countries aren’t buying

their sugar from Swaziland.

“In most cases as Africans

we trade outside Africa, but

there is an opportunity to

trade within the continent,”

she is quoted as saying in the

official PMAESA magazine.