New vision for collective passenger transport in East Africa with launch of regional high level group
A new high-level group of leading East African and international transport stakeholders has launched in Nairobi today. Jointly initiated by UN-Habitat and IRU, the East African Community (EAC) Smart Move high level group will work for a period of one year to devise a roadmap for boosting collective passenger transport in EAC’s cities and on EAC’s roads by 2030. Benefits include better transport services, reduced CO2, more jobs, fewer road deaths and reduced road congestion by up to fifteen percent.
New IRU study shows how TIR can radically reduce trade costs in Africa
The IRU report, “Transit costs in East and Southern Africa” clearly demonstrates how African countries implementing the TIR Convention can reduce the costs of trade in southern and eastern Africa by hundreds of dollars per container, thus saving billions of dollars and increasing GDP in African countries.