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The report recommended to the Government of South Sudan and the development partners to support South Sudan National Revenue Authority to construct a dry port at Nesitu to minimise congestion and delays in clearance of goods for Home use at Nimule Border
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NCTTCA need to follow up with the Government of South Sudan and lobby other development partners to have the dry port is established
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| Railways Transport and Inland waterways |
The report advocates for the increase in cargo off-take by rail and utilising the ICDs to ease pressure on the overstretched road infrastructure and enhance safety along the Northern Corridor
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Partially done: Kenya has directed most of the local cargo be transported via SGR
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NCTTCA to work closely with stakeholders towards advocating for more cargo be transported via SGR to ease congestions on the roads
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| Intra-regional Trade |
The regional countries are facing trade deficit while imports are increasing with minimal exports. The Member States are to prioritise boosting investments and value addition for exports and capacity building, especially in agro-processing, mining, oil and gas industry which is posed to boost exports from the region.
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NCTTCA to work closely with relevant agencies and device ways of promoting investments and capacity building geared towards addressing trade deficit
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| Intra-regional Trade |
The region trades more with the outside world than within. The potential in the region can be unlocked if we boost intra-regional trade. Elimination of visas as stipulated the Northern corridor transit and Transport Agreement and mutual recognition of standards. The index for the ease of doing business in the region is high. Countries need to support and ease procedures in doing business across the region; Also, implementation of trade facilitation instruments varies by country and therefore affecting smooth cross-border trade. Thus, the need for all Northern Corridor Member States to implement fully trade facilitation instruments that exist already.
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Ongoing in some Member States; Member States are at a different level of implementation.
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NCTTCA to follow up with relevant stakeholders to implement the recommendations towards promoting intra-regional trade in the region.
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| Road Conditions |
The quality of the infrastructure is a key consideration in the achievement of the region’s development goals. Regular monitoring of the conditions at a regional level to provide information on the sections for prioritisation in improvement. Widening of the Corridor and development of climbing lanes, were necessary, as a result of increased traffic will help improve in the transit times hence accelerating trade. Most of Northern Corridor is a two-lane road, and speed reduction and necessity of overtaking at uphill paths since large vehicle’s speed reduces at uphill paths. All the Member states should work towards improving the Northern Corridor and should also focus on the development of the roadside stations with all the amenities. These will also be important in improving road safety, reducing driver fatigue, thereby reducing accidents
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NCTTCA to continue working with road authorities to monitor road condition and implementing measures towards ensuring quality infrastructure
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| Delays along the Corridor |
The port dwell time is dependent on other indicators such as the time taken at one stop centre, time taken at the Document Processing Centre and time taken within the port after customs release. Intervening in the under this these indicators will automatically reduce the port dwell time; In as much as improvement has been registered, the target for the dwell time has not been achieved. Dwell time is affected by many players within the port ranging from the Revenue authority since goods cannot leave without their clearance and other cargo interveners. The free period which is nine days, also has an impact on faster cargo is evacuated from the port. An approach informed by analytics should show how to balance between free period and the dwell time target to inform the review process.
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NCTTCA to follow-up with relevant stakeholders and address delays as a result of indicators that falls within the dwell time indicator
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| Pipeline Transport |
The pipeline transportation policy which was lifted sometimes back so the decline in the off-take of fuel by the pipeline. This coupled with constraints on the lines as well as ullage issue where only big players are allocated quotas locking out smaller oil marketers have seen most business taken by the tracking companies. This has posed safety issues and congestions along the Northern Corridor.
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NCTTCA to follow-up with KPC on the policy
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| Pipeline Transport |
The pipeline capacity has tremendously been increased, and the loading bottleneck at the depot have been addressed. Additionally, the pipeline is also upgrading its systems shifting to digital systems that seek to enhance efficiency as it helps ease congestion on the main Northern Corridor highway. There is need to sensitise transit market of the achievements and facilities available
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NCTTCA to invest more efforts in this programme and continue with the reporting on Green Freight Programs and advocating implementation by Member States
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| Delays along the Corridor |
The indicator on time taken after release at the port shows that traders and transporters should, therefore, act swiftly as fast as possible to ensure faster evacuation of their cargo from the port after clearance to reduce time wastage as a result of laxities on their side
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NCTTCA to follow up with transporters association to influence their members to evacuate cargo to reduce delays.
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| Railways Transport and Inland waterways |
The current meter gauge Rail transport has declined in terms of capacity though there are plans to improve. The Standard gauge railway (SGR), with the first phase from Mombasa to Nairobi complete, will present an opportunity for increase in trade and uptake of cargo by the railway. The Standard Gauge Railway has no railway sidings. Therefore the existing meter gauge railway should be revitalised to provide connections for transportation and delivery of cargo beyond the SGR terminals
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NCTTCA to follow-up with Railways Transport agencies towards implementation of the recommendation
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