African Transport Corridors

Subject (Course): African Multimodal Transport Corridors. Trans African Highways:

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to the African Transport Corridors
2. Almaty Programme of Action (United Nations)
3. Trans-African Highways Networks/Trans-African Corridors
4. Cairo-Dakar
5. Algiers-Lagos (Trans-Saharan)
6. Tripoli-Windhoek
7. Cairo-Gaborone
8. Trans-Sahelian Highway (Dakar-N’Djamena Corridor)
9. N’djamena-Djibouti
10. Dakar-Lagos
11. Lagos-Mombasa
12. Beira-Lobito (Trans-African Highway 9)
13. Northern Corridor
14. Central Corridor
15. North-South Corridor
16. CEMAC Trade Corridor Project
17. Eastern and Central Africa Corridors
18. Lobito Corridor
19. Corridors in the SADC region
20. Logistics Corridors in Namibia

Sample of the subject - Trans-African Highways Networks:

Maritime Transport in Africa

Subject Description (African Transport Corridors).

Fifteen African countries are landlocked: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Implications for these countries:

1. High logistics costs (up to 77%)
2. Too Far from important African and World markets.
3. cannot take enough advantage of globalization model.

Benefits of African Corridors for landlocked countries:

1. Gateway for the country (import and export of goods)
2. Regional economic development: Concept of Corridor as engine of Socioeconomic development
3. New industry and related services.
4. Creates employment

According to the "Regional Integration and Trade Department" of NEPAD, there are four types of African Corridors.

1. Transport (only one mode)
2. Multimodal (more than one mode, for example, route and railway)
3. logistics (the institutional framework has been harmonized, related high-value services)
4. Economic (Furthermore, attraction of investments - public and private-, new economic activities in the region of the corridor)

Trans-African Highways (economic area of the African Civilization) consists of nine corridors.

These African Corridors should connect with direct routes all the African’s capitals, improve road transport facilities and finally contribute to the Economic Integration in the African continent.

1. 54,000 kilometers
2. Near 25% of the African corridor are missing links
3. The estimated cost to complete Trans-African Highways: 4.2 billion dollars.
4. The main promoters: the African Union, the NEPAD, and all the Regional Economic Communities.

Intra-African trade.