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Ctbl-Watch Africa Issue 19 | July 2015 CTBL-WATCH AFRICA ISSUE 19 | JULY 2015 CMA CGM GROUP CONNECTING ZAMBIA TO THE WORLD! Full Story On Page 5 TMEA, UNCTAD Ink Pact To Uganda: Northern Corridor World Bank Clears US$100M Boost East African Trade 09Integration Projects 21For Ivorian Trade Corridor 23 CTBL-WATCH AFRICA ISSUE 19 | JULY 2015 Contents 03 | Corridor Review 05 | African Group News Group Offers Weekly Connections To - From Zambia / Suspension Of CTBL Services To Northern Mali / Zimbabwe: Consignment-Based Conformity [CBCA] Program To Commence 09 | Eastern & Southern Africa Regional: TMEA, UNCTAD Ink Pact To Boost East African Trade / Northern Corridor Transport & Transit Cargo Tracking System Botswana: South Africa Heavy-Haul Study Nearly Complete Ethiopia: Modjo-Hawassa Highway Project Kenya: Dongo Kundu Bypass To Link Mombasa Port / Construction Of 4-Lane Arusha-Holili-Taveta Road Commences Malawi: Government To Open Nacala Corridor In August / Malawi Nets US$1 Billion In Prospective Investments At Trade Forum Namibia: Trans-Orange Corridor Revival Gathers Steam Rwanda: Rwanda Targets US$1.2 Billion Foreign Investment In 2015 / Private Sector Bodies To Strengthen Ties Tanzania: Dar-Kigali Cargo Moving Faster / Deal Signed To Ease Cross-Border Road Transport / Border Posts Law Endorsed / Optimism High As Holili/Taveta OSBP Opens / Transport Sector Support Program - Tabora Koga Mpanda Road / Upgrading Of Mtwara-Newala-Masasi Road / Tanzania Adopts Import Levy To Finance Railway Projects South Africa: R298 Road Section Rehabilitation Begins / Transnet In R2.8 Billion Deal With Germany’s KfW / Transnet Seeking Investors After Securing Deals / Construction Of Gauteng Rolling Stock Factory / African Rail Exhibition / Transnet Aims To Lease Branch Lines To Private Sector Uganda: Northern Corridor Integration Projects - New Standard Gauge Railway Zambia: Tanzanian Port Authority Opens Liaison Office In Lusaka / ZAMBRA Monitors Nakonde Border / Chipata-Mchinji Line To Be Linked To TAZARA / Grindrod To Fund Rail Link 23 | Western Africa Angola: Malanje Regains Status As Vital Corridor Cote d’Ivoire: World Bank Clears US$100 Million For Trade Corridor / Bloléquin-Toulépleu - Tabou-Prollo Road - Mano River Union / NRE Locomotives Arrive In Abidjan / Abidjan Metro Line 1 Gambia: US$46.3 Million For Laminkoto-Passimas Road Liberia: Somalia Drive Road Project Resumes After Ebola Morocco: High-Speed Line To Open Spring 2018 / Africa’s First High Speed Train Delivered Nigeria: Fourth Mainland Bridge Proposed To Lagos Deep Seaport / Plans To Construct 10-Lane Lagos-Badagry Expressway / Rehabilitation Works On The Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway 1 CMA CGM Marseille Head Offi ce The African Inland Freight Report 4, Quai d’Arenc 13235 Marseille cedex 02 France Brought to you by CMA CGM / DELMAS Marketing Tel : +33 (0)4 88 91 90 00 www.cmacgm.com Website: www.delmas.com Email: [email protected] Disclaimer of Liability Tweet: @DelmasWeDeliver CMA CGM / DELMAS make every effort to providep and maintain usable, and timely information in this report. No responsibilityp is accepted for the accuracy, completeness, or relevance too the user’s purpose, of the information. Accordingly Delmas denies any liability for any direct, direct indirect or consequential loss or damage suffered by any person as a Rachel Bennett Dominic Rawle result of relying on any published information. Conclusions drawn from, or actions undertaken on the basis of, such data and information are the sole responsibility of the reader. Events Diary July 2015 22-24 FESPA Africa / Africa Print (Johannesburg, South Africa) http://www.fespa.com/calendar/fespa-events/fespa-africa-2015.html 27-28 6th Mozambique Coal Conference (Maputo, Mozambique) http://www.informa-resources.com August 2015 3-5 African Ports Forum (Durban, South Africa) http://www.dredgingtoday.com News Briefs Western Africa Eastern & Southern Africa BENIN BOTSWANA - Premier African Minerals has been awarded new - Shumba Coal announced plans to develop a solar power exploration tenements in central Benin with rights held station to produce up to 200MW in NW where copper by its 100%-owned subsidiary G&B African Resources mines are sprouting up. Benin SARL. LESOTHO CONGO - Diamond development company Paragon Diamonds has - Potash company Elemental Minerals has completed a entered into a share purchase agreement with Canada’s A$4.98m private placement to fund a bankable feasibility Lucara Diamond Corp for the $8.5m buy-out of its study at its Kola project and a prefeasibility study at its interest in the Mothae kimberlite resource. Dougou potash project. NAMIBIA NIGER - Namibia Rare Earths has started work on an - Niger has won backing of US$83.51m to relocate people environmental-impact assessment for the Lofdal project. from proposed hydroelectric dam site - Kandadji project - underway since 2008, but work stalled after a dispute TANZANIA with the original partner. The project is now set to be - China Shandong Electric Power Construction No 2 completed in 2017. Company held 1st in a series of in-country meetings into the workings of Edenville Energy’s coal-to-power project. NIGERIA Sepco2 is a potential partner to the project. - The BTG Group Nigeria Limited to construct a large scale precast factory to help develop Nigeria housing market - ZAMBIA in Onitsha, Anambra State. It has already placed an order - A new hydropower plant to be built on the Luapula River of precast machinery from Weiber GmbH; a Germany by Zambia & DRC to help boost power generation. based engineering and manufacturing company for the precast concrete industry. ZIMBABWE - Chinese Mortal Investments Manufacturing Company SIERRA LEONE is to construct a cement manufacturing plant worth - 30 Dutch companies completed a 3-day trade mission US$10m in Redcliff. to Sierra Leone organized by the Ministry of Trade and - Yakushuku Manufacturing has showed interest in Industry in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Investment the construction of a US$25m cotton ginning and and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA). manufacturing plant in the Redcliff region. 2 CTBL AFRICA CORRIDOR REVIEW Eastern & Southern Africa Corridor Current Situation 1 ● Kenya-Great Lakes/S. Sudan The rail line between Kampala and Mombasa is running well with an estimated transit of 10 days. We offer extensive CTBL services throughout Kenya backed by a deal negotiated with Rift Valley Railways [RVR], the operator of the Kenya-Uganda Railways, we are able to offer very competitive and reduced rates to the ICD Embakasi, Nairobi from Mombasa port, Kenya. However due to numerous derailments between Mombasa and ICD Embakasi, RVR has stopped containers with 10% and more imbalance of cargo - can proceed with a survey and the rebalance of cargo. Our ASEA KENYA service, providing direct weekly services from Asia to Mombasa, enhances our inland solutions to domestic Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, eastern DRC. We also offer routes to the North Kivu region in eastern DRC and new connections through Mombasa port to Beni, Butembo and Kisangani, towns all lying on the main national route N4. A New reefer solution is available from Nairobi to Mombasa by road. 2 ● Tanzania-Great Lakes With a new improved ASEA TANZANIA service we offer direct weekly service from Asia to Dar Es Salaam enhancing inland solutions to the heart of DRC, Burundi, Rwanda. Roads from Dar Es Salaam to North Rwanda and DRC [Goma / Bukavu / Uvira are in good condition. Bookings to Burundi have reopened following political tensions. We can offer a road service to Bujumbura via the port of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in around 22 days. Be advised additional charges may apply as a result of tensions and instability pre/post the presidential elections [now postponed to 21st July]. We anticipate further delays during this time. These costs will be on the account of the shipper. 3 ● Tanzania-Copper Belt Roads through Mbeya offer an alternative to the train to Ndola. We are the only line to have an owned office in Lubumbashi which closely monitors the local situation. The corridor from Dar Es Salaam to Lusaka, Copper belt & Lubumbashi is safe and offers competitive rates and transit times. Our local agent is working with local hauliers to further improve this. With an improved ASEA TANZANIA service we offer direct weekly service from Asia to Dar Es Salaam enhancing inland solutions to Malawi and Zambia. 4 ● Mozambique Nacala Corridor The corridor is running well offering excellent transit times and no congestion. 5 ● Mozambique Beira Corridor New rail solution in place Beira-Harare. CMA CGM will indemnify client from further liability should any port storage incur on the units to be railed. 6 ● Mozambique Maputo Corridor Competitive solutions available to Zimbabwe by rail from Maputo-Hwange. There is no port storage invoiced if shortage of wagons in Maputo. 7 ● S. Africa Durban New competitive rates available to Lusaka & Copperbelt [Zambia], Lubumbashi [DRC] and Gaborone [Botswana]. We have extended our South African inland reefer service from/to the port of Durban to Johannesburg. Extension of all other over border trucking rates. 8 ● Namibia Walvis Bay We can offer a routing solution for export CTBL cargo from Zambia to Namibia. The route along the Trans-Caprivi Corridor links Zambia with the Port of Walvis Bay via the Katima Mulilo bridge border crossing. Export solutions are available from DRC and Zambia to Walvis Bay for dry and reefer equipment. The corridor to Lusaka, Kitwe, Ndola & Lubumbashi in south DRC are running well. We also offer Windhoek! 3 Western Africa Corridor Current Situation 1 ● Senegal-Mali We are only able to accept cargo for Southern Mali destinations. For safety reasons traffic to Northern Mali [Kignan, Ségou, Mopti, Sevaré, Gao, Kidal, Menaka, Ansongou, Tessalit, Timbuktu] via Dakar are temporarily suspended. 2 ● Senegal-Guinea Bissau The corridor remains open but due to the Ebola crisis the border process and status will be checked on a case by case basis before booking. 3 ● Cote d’Ivoire-Burkina/Mali The rail service from Abidjan is running well offering excellent transit times and no congestion.
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