Transport World Africa

According to finance minister Pravin Gordhan, the World Bank has named South Africa as the country that has improved the most when it comes to facilitating cross border trade. The […]

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Angola has become one of China’s biggest trading partners in 2012, with trade totalling 17 billion euros in the first seven months of the year, the Chinese ambassador to Angola […]

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Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to […]

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Report Paints a Gloomy outlook for Kenya….. According to the African Economic Outlook (AEO) report of 2012, East African countries will realize a decline in GDP at 5% in 2012 […]

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Rwanda - Informal traders involved in cross-border trade have expressed their concern with high cost of transport and limited access to financing which is making doing business increasingly difficult. Traders […]

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Regulations, cartels and crumbling infrastructure raise the cost and delivery times of imports and exports across the continent. New railway plans will help to bring more competition to the transport […]

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South Africa’s trade deficit for July 2012 increased by R1bn to R6.7bn, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) said on Friday. Exports in July increased by 2.9% (R1.8bn) to R63.5bn. A […]

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Mozambican exports increased by whopping 19 percent in 2011 to the amount of US$2.7 billion. According to the Export Promotion Institute (IPEX), this impressive increase in exports was mainly due […]

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