According to bank provided project information, the goal of this Technical Assistance (TA) Project is to facilitate an increased investment in and development of Dry Ports in Africa to support and provide seamless accessibility to international and regional shipping. For African trade to flow more smoothly, its essential that African ports are seamlessly accessible to international and regional shipping. This goal will be articulated and achieved through the development of guidelines for Dry Ports operations in Africa, analytical and conceptual frameworks development for unlocking the continents’ potential of multi modal transport corridors and supported by complimentary capacity building initiatives. These frameworks for multimodal transport corridors and guidelines are key as these will guide both policymakers and the private sector in conceptualizing, developing, financing, operationalizing Dry Ports and strengthening multi modal transport corridors. Furthermore, this complements seaport diagnostic studies completed by the Bank and addresses gaps in supporting the private sector in providing reliable and competitive inland logistics infrastructure through Dry Ports. The development objective of the Project is therefore to address the constraints that hinder the conceptualizing, financing, and development of Dry Ports in Africa.

The primary beneficiaries of the Project will be Africa’s 16 landlocked countries and 38 coastal and island states, this will also have indirect/secondary beneficiaries on the following (i) Business communities (East African Business Council, Burkina Faso Chamber of Commerce and Industry)that have identified the need for development of modern highly developed inland logistics cargo facilities (ii) African Governments that identified potential inland Dry Ports and logistics facilities that require enhanced capacity to oversee development of Dry Ports as inland logistics facilities to increase the capacity of their seaports (as applicable) (iii) African economies through increased trade, investment, GDP boosted by a growing inland logistics transport sector, primarily in the 16 landlocked countries that are members of diverse Regional Corridor Management Institutions (CMI’s) tasked with the responsibility of amongst others fast tracking regional economic corridor development. This includes Walvis Bay Corridor group, Transit Transport Coordination Authority of the Northern Corridor and Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (iv) Regional Economic Community (REC)technical teams such as Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), East African Community (EAC), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa(COMESA)and Southern African Development Community (SADC).

James Austere Quotek NGANGA
Ports and Maritime Transport Off., PICU1
African Development Bank
j.nganga@afdb.org 
www.afdb.org

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