CTBL-WATCH AFRICA ISSUE 28 | APRIL 2016 CMA CGM OFFERS NEW LAND CORRIDORS ACROSS MAURITANIA OPENS GATEWAY TO LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES IN NORTH WEST AFRICA Full Story On Page 5 Pan Africa: Region Investing Kenya/Uganda/Rwanda: Joint Kenya: Northern Corridor SGR US$30B On 11,000KM Of Rail 07Electronic Cargo Tracking 09Construction Project 17 CTBL-WATCH AFRICA ISSUE 28 | APRIL 2016 Contents 03 | Corridor Review 05 | African Group News New: CMA CGM Offers New Land Corridors Across Mauritania, Opens Gateway To Landlocked Countries In North West Africa 07 | Pan Africa Region Investing US$30 Billion On 11,000 KM Of Rail 09 | Eastern & Southern Africa Ethiopia: US$222 Million Road To Be Constructed Kenya/Tanzania: AfDB Approves US$228 Million For Strategic Road Kenya/Uganda/Rwanda: Joint Electronic Cargo Tracking Starts June Kenya: New Mombasa Bridge Construction Design / Northern Corridor SGR Construction Project Taking Shape / Funding Talks On Naivasha-Nairobi Rail Link / Kenya Seeks Operator For New Railway / Chinese Firm To Build Communication Solution / Chinese Firm Sign Pact for Naivasha-Malaba SGR Project Malawi/Zambia: Malawi-Zambia Eye Tazara Line Mozambique: EU To Pay €16 Million For Road Repairs / New Bridge To Increase Maputo-Swaziland Rail Traffic Namibia: Roads Authority Earmark Budget For Construction / Phase 1 Port Rail Upgrade Completed Rwanda/Tanzania: Rusumo Border Facilities Launched Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli and Rwandan President Rwanda: Base-Gicumbi-Rukomo-Nyagatare Road Project / Rubavu Warehouse To Ease Cross-Border Trade South Africa: M1 Revamp Starts May / June Completion For First Phase Of N8 Highway Rehabilitation / East Cape Roads To Be Reconstructed / Sanral To Collect Road Charges At Beitbridge Post / CRRC Unveils First Diesel Locomotive For Transnet / Earthworks For Majuba Rail Project Nearing Completion Swaziland: TE Delivers Wagons Tanzania: Vehicle Imports In Transit Decline At Dar es Salaam Port / Government To Construct Roads To Ease Traffic / Checkpoints To Be Reduced On Rusumo Route Uganda: Uganda Seeks More Trade With India Zambia/Botswana: Kazungula Bridge Takes Shape Zambia: ZABS Launches Single Window Online Import Clearance / Mongu-Kalabo Road Completed / Mchinji-Petauke- Serenje Rail Project / Funds Sourced For Muchinje ICD Zimbabwe: Exports Fall 15% In 2015 / Japanese Agreement On Roads / Government To Sign MoU On Beitbridge-Harare Road 23 | Western Africa Cameroon: Yaounde-Bafoussam-Babadjou Road Project DRC: Lovua Tshikapa Road Works Gambia/Senegal: Border Remains Closed Over Dispute Ghana: Transport Ministry Sets Up Authority To Regulate Road Activities / Tema Motorway Expansion Contract Signed / Eastern Railway Line Development / Railway Unions Merge Morocco: Casablanca Road Improvements / Morocco Gets Funding For Rail Infrastructure Work Nigeria: USAID Promotes Investment On Lagos-Kano-Jibiya Transport Corridor / FERMA Rehabilitates Kaduna-Abuja Highway / Cross River State Highway Halted / Lagos State Roads Senegal/Mali: New Operator For Dakar-Bamako Railway Senegal: Rehabilitation Of National Road N2 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 Africa Marketing Tel : +33 (0)4 88 91 90 00 www.cma-cgm.com Website: www.cma-cgm.com Email: [email protected] Disclaimer of Liability Tweet: @CMA_CGM_Group The CMA CGM Group make every effort to provide and maintain usable, and timely information in this report. 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Events Diary April 2016 24-26 International Beauty Show, Afric Beauty Expo 2016 (Dakar, Senegal) http://africbeautyexpo.com/?lang=en 25-26 10th German-African Energy Forum by Afrika-Verein (Hamburg, Germany) http://www.energyafrica.de/en/home-en 26-30 Zimbabwe International Trade Fair Company (ZITF) (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) http://www.zitf.net/ 27-28 5th Mozambique Mining, Energy and Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition (Maputo, Mozambique) http://www.mozmec.com/ News Briefs Western Africa Eastern & Southern Africa BURKINA FASO BOTSWANA - Vancouver’s Endeavour Mining has commenced - Firestone Diamonds has agreed to an extension for the construction at its US$328m Hounde project in Burkina. $8m sale of its Botswana operations to allow buyer Tango Mining time to finalise a proposed $30m loan. CAMEROON - Ngoulémakong is to host a FCfa 441.4 million processing RWANDA unit to turn cassava into starch and others derivatives - Members of Parliament from both chambers welcomed financed by the Investment and Development Project for a 3-year plan to phase out the commercialisation of Agricultural Markets (PIDMA) & the World Bank. second-hand clothes known as ‘caguwa.’ COTE D’IVOIRE SOUTH AFRICA - Dangote Cement commenced construction of a new - US car maker Ford to invest R2.5-billion to build the new cement grinding plant to produce 3 million MT/yr. Everest sports-utility vehicle at its Silverton assembly plant in Pretoria boosting output from 74 000 units a year GABON to 93 000 units by 2017 - a 25% increase. - The Africa Finance Corporation to invest up to US$140m - Illovo Sugar said its largest shareholder, Associated in the Gabon Special Economic Zone, a JV between British Foods, has agreed to buy the remaining stake in agriculture company Olam and the Gabon government. the company for US$370m. - Transport giant Alstom acquired 51% share in Commuter GUINEA BISSAU Transport and Locomotive Engineering. - The China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) signed a MoU to build a new international airport. CMEC UGANDA will also build 2-fishing ports in Biombo and Buba and a - Explorer Black Mountain Resources signed power transmission line in Saltinho in the south. documentation to acquire Namakera Mining Company, which holds 2-mining projects in Uganda [Namakera NIGERIA vermiculite mine/ Busumbu phosphate project] & - China has offered a loan worth US$6 billion to fund commits to investing US$2.5m in new capital over next infrastructure projects. The announcement came as 2-years. countries signed a currency swap deal to boost trade, shore up the Naira & help fund deficit. ZIMBABWE - Nigeria plans to split state oil company NNPC into two - Zimbabwe is probing Rio Tinto’s disposal of its stake in to ease a planned stake sale and wants to sell at least 2-mines: its 78% stake in the Murowa diamond mine and 40% of a newly created National Petroleum Co (NPC) in also sold off its 50% interest in the Sengwa coal mine. coming years. 2 CTBL AFRICA CORRIDOR REVIEW Eastern & Southern Africa Corridor Current Situation 1 ● Kenya [Mombasa] -Great Lakes / Kenya: We are now able to offer competitive rates on heavy 20ft container Uganda / Rwanda / South Sudan rates Gross Weight [GW] up to 32T and 40ft containers with GW below 22T for rail to ICD Embakasi, Nairobi, following new revised rates from RVR effective 1st Jan 2016. All import cargo to Kenya [local] must have a Certificate of Conformity [COC]. Without a COC we will not be able to clear the cargo out of port. Failure to which Kenya Bureau of Statistics will impose heavy penalties on consignee’s account. South Sudan: For shipments to South Sudan the Port Of Load [POL] must collect a Letter of Indemnity [LOI] from the shipper indemnifying the Line against all extra charges incurred at the Port of Discharge [POD], Nimule border and Final Point of Destination [FPOD] before approval of any booking. Our local agency in Nairobi will review all bookings before they are accepted. Rwanda: Subject to premium tariff we now authorise shipper to book at 30T incl TARE for final destination Rwanda. 2 ● Tanzania [Dar Es salaam] - Great DRC: Roads from Dar Es Salaam to DRC [Goma / Bukavu] are in good Lakes condition and services are running well via Rwanda. We have opened Uvira via Burundi but subject to a pre confirmation with our Dar es Salaam office due to possible insecurity in Burundi. Rwanda: Service is running very well. It is operated under SCT with efficient transit time and rates. Burundi: We have re-opened our service connecting Tanzania to Burundi. The Dar-es-Salaam to Bujumbura road corridor offers a transit of 13-days. Regional: Please be advised due to Customs complication, no part load shipment is allowed in TBL for our corridors via Dar Es Salaam. 3 ● Tanzania [Dar Es salaam] - Copper Regional: The corridor from Dar Es Salaam to Lusaka, Copper belt & Belt Lubumbashi is safe. Our rates have recently been improved and we offer competitive transit times. Our local agent is working with local hauliers to further improve this. Zambia: Roads through Mbeya offer an alternative to the train to Ndola. With an improved ASEA TANZANIA service we offer direct weekly service from Asia to Dar Es Salaam enhancing inland solutions to Malawi and Zambia. DRC: We are the only line to have an owned office in Lubumbashi which closely monitors the local situation. 4 ● Mozambique Nacala Corridor New competitive rail rates for Nacala corridor to Malawi final destination. 5 ● Mozambique Beira Corridor We offer new competitive rates for 20’ Beira-Harare [Zimbabwe] by road and by rail. CMA CGM will indemnify clients from further liability should any port storage incur on the units to be railed. We also have new competitive rates on the Beira–Malawi corridor. 6 ● Mozambique Maputo Corridor Competitive solutions are 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 inland reefer ‘overborder’ solution available via Durban to inland countries: Zimbabwe, DRC, Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland. 8 ● Namibia Walvis Bay We can offer a routing solution for export CTBL cargo from Zambia to Namibia.