African Value Chains. Transport Costs

Syllabus of the Subject: African Value Chains. Trade Facilitation.

Introduction to the African Value Chains;
Opportunities for the African Companies;
African Growth Poles;
How the African enterprises can take advantage of the value chains?;
Case Study: The Cocoa Value Chain in West Africa;
Rules of Origin and transport costs;
Export costs in Africa;
Trade Facilitation;
One-stop border post;
FDI Cooperation;
Case Study: Shoprite (the African largest food retailer).

The objectives of the subject “African value chains” are the following:

To learn how the intra-African trade can benefit from the African value chains;
To assess the importance of the One-stop border post in Africa;
To analyze the impact of the African Value Chains on the transport and export costs in Africa;
To study success stories of the African Value Chains (the Egyptian textile sector, the cocoa value chain in West Africa...).

The African Development Bank estimates that the cost to transport a container from Durban (South Africa) to Lusaka (Zambia) - 1,633 kilometers/ 1,015 miles- are USD 8,000, and 1,800 from Durban to Japan!.

African Value Chains:
African Value Chains. How the African enterprises can take advantage of the value chains?

Online Education (Courses, Masters, Doctorate): Transport and Logistics in Africa

African Student, Doctorate, Master International Business, ForeignTrade

The Subject “African Value Chains” belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:

Courses: Transport in Africa, African Economic Integration.

African Economic Integration. Online Education (Courses, Masters, Doctorate)

Masters: Transport in Africa, Business in Africa, International Business, Foreign Trade.

Doctorate: Global Logistics, African Business, World Trade.

Languages: Courses, Masters, Doctorate in International Business and Foreign Trade in English or Study, Course Master Doctorate in International Business in French Chaines Valeur Afrique Study Master Doctorate in International Business in Spanish Cadenas de valor africanas Masters Foreign Trade in Portuguese Cadeias de valor africanas.

Shoprite (African largest food retailer) South Africa:
Shoprite Africa largest food retailer

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African Value Chains.

The Regional Integration in Africa should facilitate the African Value Chains, both for regional and global market.

Regional Trade and cross-border investments are a key factor for the Value Chains development in Africa;
The role of the Regional Economic Communities is critical, by ex. reducing the Technical Barriers to Trade (Rules of Origin) in Africa;
In some African Countries (South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, Kenya or Tunisia), the companies are improving their value addition in several sectors.

Trade Facilitation Programs. TFA Agreement. Online Education (Courses, Masters, Doctorate)

The Regional Economic Communities are working in Trade Facilitation programs, but the trading cost in Africa is not competitive in many cases.

There are good examples of improving the African Value Chains. By example...

The Cocoa Value Chain in West Africa (mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the World's largest cocoa exporter), has increased from 12% (2000) to 18.6% (2013), by liberalization and incentives programs (economic free zones), attracting the foreign investors;
Today more than 1 Million people in Ivory Coast and 800,000 in Ghana work in the Cocoa Sector. Local farmers are receiving a fixed price (70% of FOB price);
The Egyptian textile sector has substantially increased his value addition, and today contributes to 27% of the Egyptian total production;
According to the African Development Bank, the One-stop border post can help to reduce clearance times (Customs Procedures) at the borders. By example, between Uganda and Kenya (Malaba), the border-crossing time has been reduced from 24 hours (2011) to 4 hours (2012);
In Chirundu (border post Zimbabwe - Zambia) the One-stop border post, part of the North-South Corridor, the time for cross the border for lorries has been reduced from 3 days to 2 hours.

EENI African Business Portal.