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TRUCKING WORLDWIDE * Cambodia - PM tells transport firms to follow weight limits
Companies that overload trucks beyond legal limits damage roads and bridges and will be shut down
Phnom Penh,Cambodia -The Phnom Penh Post, by Nguon Sovan -15 September 2009: -- Prime Minister, Hun Sen. ordered senior transport and public works officials Monday to close down logistics firms that violate weight limits for trucks... Speaking at the launch of the Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge across the Tonle Sap River at Prek Kdam in northern Kandal province, the premier said overloaded trucks damaged the country’s roads and bridges, putting life and property at risk... (Photo by NGUON SOVAN - A truck waits to offload its cargo at Phnom Penh Port. Prime Minister Hun Sen warned the logistics industry Monday that illegal practices would lead to company closures)* Tanzania - Closes checkpoint to speed up delivery of goods
Dar-es-Salam,Tanzania -The Business Daily, by Mohamed Issa -September 16 2009: -- Tanzania has closed its inland transit checkpoint at Dar-es-Salaam, diverting all trucks to Chalinze for a random check of goods, a move aimed at curbing delays... The Mbezi Transit Station is used by landlocked countries like Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo among others to transport imports and exports. However, the station has been a source of cargo delays... The diversion is also aimed at ensuring the country measures up with international trade conventions... The commissioner has set a time limit of only seven hours for the imports to have arrived at Chalinze, ready for the mandatory inland check point... The conventions require coastal states like Tanzania to speed up delivery, ensure safety and dignity of the cargo bound to hinterland destinations... They give landlocked countries protracted rights to use sea ports as the gateways to pass their imports/exports. Separate transport agreements between port users (the landlocked country) and the port owners (the coastal state) are encouraged, however, to reinforce the conventions... (Photo: Trucks queue near the Tanzania border: Most have been diverted to Chalinze to ease the flow of goods)Labels: trucking industry news worldwide
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