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FESARTA AND ROAD TRANSPORT IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

FESARTA AND ROAD TRANSPORT IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA. BARNEY CURTIS FESARTA (Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations) REC-TCC, Cotonou , 16 th October 2012. OBJECTIVE OF PRESENTATION.

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FESARTA AND ROAD TRANSPORT IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

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  1. FESARTA AND ROAD TRANSPORT IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA BARNEY CURTIS FESARTA (Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations) REC-TCC, Cotonou, 16th October 2012

  2. OBJECTIVE OF PRESENTATION • To give FESARTA’s understanding of the issues affecting road transport in East and Southern Africa, what is being done and the successes achieved so far FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  3. CONTENTS • What is FESARTA • Challenges to efficient goods movement • Corridors and major problem issues • Facilitation instruments • Interventions and successes • Road vs rail • Conclusion FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  4. FESARTA • Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations • Registered Section 21 company in SA • Members are NRTAs from SA to Uganda • Chairman is from KTA in Kenya • Works with 3S Media for events & capacity • Two primary objectives: • Work with RECs etc to lower cost of transport • Provide services to its member NRTAs FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  5. CHALLENGES • Overlapping of memberships by countries causes confusion in recommendations to Member States • Tripartite Alliance formed to alleviate this. Not yet one REC, but should become it • To get agreement on regional harmonization and standardization • To get implementation at national level FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  6. E & SA Trucking, CSCMP, Johannesburg

  7. TRANSPORT CORRIDORS • COMESA/EAC/SADC Tripartite identified 18 corridors in E & S Africa • Grouped into clusters (East, Southern, North-South and Western); to avoid too many meetings and duplication of effort • Eastern and Southern African TradeMarks tasked to implement interventions along corridors, esp. N-SC FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  8. Road Transport Corridors of East and Southern Africa Kampala 1 Nairobi Lake Victoria Kigali 1,2 Bujumbura Kinshasa Mombasa Mombasa 2 Dodoma 2,3,7 Lake Tanganyika Dar es Salaam Mbeya 3,7 Dar es Salaam Luanda Kolwezi Lake Malawi 3,7,9 3,7 Lubumbashi 3,7 Lobito Kitwe Lilongwe 10 Kapiri Mposhi 7 Nacala Nacala 4 Lusaka Kafue Tete 7,9 7 Blantyre 7 5 Kariba Harare Livingstone 5 9 7 7 Beira Beira Bulawayo 7 Francistown 8 1 Northern 2 Central 3 Dar es Salaam 4 Nacala 5 Beira 6 Maputo 7 North-South 8 Trans Kalahari 9 Trans Kaprivi 10 Trans Cunene 7 7 Walvis Bay Windhoek Gaborone Pretoria Pretoria 6 Maputo Maputo Johannesburg Mbabane 6 7 0 500 1000km Maseru Durban Saldanha East London Cape Town Coega Port Elizabeth

  9. MAJOR PROBLEMS ALONG THE CORRIDORS • Inefficiencies, documentation and procedures means high border delays • Arbitrary and high costs, lack of transparency with infrastructure upgrades • Lack of harmonization and standardization (Load limits, road user charges, 3rd party insurances, documentation, etc) • Road and border infrastructure in need of upgrading FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  10. E & SA Trucking, CSCMP, Johannesburg

  11. E & SA Trucking, CSCMP, Johannesburg

  12. E & SA Trucking, CSCMP, Johannesburg

  13. MAJOR PROBLEMS ALONG THE CORRIDORS • Restricted market access by transporters to different countries – Cabotage and Third Country Rule • Immigration restrictions and visa difficulties for drivers • Inaccurate weighbridge readings due to old infrastructure and/or inefficient operations FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  14. FACILITATION INSTRUMENTS • Three SADC Protocols (don’t really have “teeth”) • Transport, Communications and Meteorololgy • Trade (customs, rules of origin, etc) • Trade in Services (business in countries) • EAC has supra-national Acts (eg customs) • SADC RIDMP • Tripartite Trade and Transport Facilitation Programme FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  15. INTERVENTIONS • Tripartite Panel of Experts - harmonization of insurance, market access, road user charges, truck stops, driver training, abnormal loads, dangerous goods, etc • Operation of a Tripartite Non-Tariff Barrier system to indentify and solve problems • Corridor Monitoring with TMSA and vehicle tracking systems FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  16. CORRIDOR MONITORING • FESARTA set up system with C-Track and trucking company • Established “polygons” at focal points to ensure capture of parking and queues • Did not have enough vehicles on system • Expensive when out of cellphone range • Took too long to extract useful trip times • TMSA now using Global track and TLC, with many trucking companies FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  17. NON-TARIFF BARRIER SYSTEM • System housed in each of the three RECs • Complaints registered by anyone, against governments or others, that compromise efficient transport along the corridors • +- 500 active complaints on the system , 80% from SADC region • RECs and FESARTA negotiate with relevant member states to solve the road transport complaints E & SA Trucking, CSCMP, Johannesburg

  18. INTERVENTIONS • Self regulation to improve compliance and relationship between authorities and transporters • Working with RECs to produce a better network of truck stops and wellness centres • FESARTA has a working relationship with TradeMark Southern Africa FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  19. INTERVENTIONS • TMSA/FESARTA proposed work plan: • Have transporters’ case studies of operational issues at borders & along corridors • Through stickers on vehicles, market Non-Tariff Barrier system • Developing Self-Regulation system for N-SC • Pursue harmonization and implementation of loads and dimensions limits • Stakeholder meeting March 2013 to review FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  20. SUCCESSES • Helped standardize load limits through an EAC project. Now in EAC parliament • Published the East and Southern African Road Transport Corridor Handbook • Together with the NTB system, have resolved some non-tariff barriers • Held a successful Truckers’ Forum, (to be the annual Road Transport Forum) FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  21. TRUCKERS’ (ROAD TRANSPORT) FORUM • Continuing transporters’ problems along corridors were not being solved • Meetings/conferences do not achieve this • Problems and potential solutions tabled and agreed at regional Truckers’ Forum in Johannesburg in Mar 2012 • Solutions being implemented as part of the TMSA/FESARTA work plan • Reviewal at 2013 Road Transport Forum FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  22. ROAD VS RAIL • +- 90% of goods moved by road along the corridors in East Africa. Less in SA • Governments well aware and determined to shift the balance • Transporters know more must be moved by rail, but, markets must dictate else costs will rise. Ie rail must attract goods • RECs and TradeMarks working on solutions FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  23. CONCLUSION • There is growing commitment to trade facilitation in East and Southern Africa • There is increased activity by the RECs • The COMESA/EAC/Tripartite alliance is becoming an effective programme • FESARTA continues to play an important role in trade facilitation in East and Southern Africa FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

  24. THANK YOU FESARTA's Activities, REC-TCC, Cotonou

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