TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * Africa
* Kenya - Removes roadblocks to ease movement of goods
(Photo: Trucks at Kenya’s Malaba border point transport goods to Uganda. Kenya-Uganda border has in recent months been experiencing congestion that left businesses with huge operational costs and disruptions due to delayed shipments)
Nairobi,Kenya -All Affrica, by EDWARD OJULU -22 July 2013: -- Rwandan truck drivers have welcomed the new move by the Kenyan government to remove police roadblocks between the coastal port city of Mombasa and Malaba, near the Ugandan border... Speaking in Kigali on Friday, Michael Kamau, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure said his country had removed the roadblocks to reduce non-tariff barriers along the Northern Corridor... According to Kamau, it is now up to Rwanda and Uganda to do the same to allow free movement of cargo along the corridor... The dismantling of the most cumbersome non-tariff barrier on the route came shortly after the recent meeting between President, Paul Kagame, and his counterparts Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda in Kampala... The three Presidents issued some orders that are now being implemented...
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