Road Transport

During the Strategic Retreat of the East African Community Ministers in April 2008, it was reported that 52% of the region’s road network is in poor condition, with poor maintenance and poor level of service. This increases the operating costs of business due to long transit times and long turn-around times, frequent need for repairs and lengthy clearance procedures among others.

However, the EAC Partner States government are committed to improving the road transport network and already a lot of improvements for example on the Northern and the Central corridors have been made. There is also effort to carry out other on-transit facilitation activities such as harmonisation of axle-load limits and overload control, simplification of customs documentation and procedures at ports and border posts, among others.