"A greater degree of regional port planning would make it possible to select hubs large enough to offer efficient transshipment services. A hub system would help to lower transport costs."Check out their map of African ports showing their scale...
08 January 2012
African Seaports ~ Infra'ture Investment Needed...
Tremendous infrastructure investments in ports & ways are urgently needed to enable Africans to properly participate in the global economy. Indeed, I've written before about vital translogistics, accelerating infrastructure, and transport corridor plans as well as the need for creative thinking about infrastructure financing together with the challenges of special Chinese "deals". So it's very interesting to read the AfDB's key message Too many ports handle Africa’s maritime trade traffic -- few of them large enough to attract major shipping lines...
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