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Superior Homes Kenya has partnered with the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA) to enhance road safety along the Northern Corridor and address driver fatigue for long-distance transit drivers by developing roadside stations. Superior Homes intends to tap into the market gap of inadequate and informal truck stop facilities in Kenya by providing self-contained service & rest point areas to truck drivers along the various transit routes within the country.

The RSS program started in 2014 following a feasibility study of the entire Northern Corridor by the Northern Corridor Secretariat aimed at providing road users with safe and comfortable road travel conditions and contribute to local economies. The study identified 141 locations for RSS out of which 67 were considered as priority locations. Out of the 67 priority locations identified along the Northern Corridor, 27 are in Uganda. It developed three categories of RSS designs and their requirements for compliance and detailed the financial projections and models for their development.

Road Safety has become a big challenge in the Northern Corridor Member States albeit tremendous efforts made in the development and improvement of transport infrastructure.

The Northern Corridor Member States of Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda harbour immense opportunities in Public Private Partnership projects (PPPs) investment mainly in Multimodal Transport, Industrial and Social infrastructure.

The model developed with support from TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) will support the Corridors’ Transport Observatories to regularly report on performances related to GHG emissions as well as help identify possible reduction/mitigation potentials in climate change projects in the two Corridors.

Kenya Railways (KR) has reduced the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) cargo tariffs by 15% to promote Naivasha Inland Container Depot’s (Naivasha ICD) use. The new freight rates came into effect on 16th February 2021.

Data from the Northern Corridor Transport Observatory reveals that the Port of Mombasa sustained its performance in January-December 2020 with a slight decline compared to its throughput in the corresponding period in 2019. The hub recorded a throughput of 34 million metric tonnes (MT) in 2020, a 1% decline from 34.4 million MT handled in 2019. However, this was 5% short of the projected 35.9 million MT in total throughput and 1.49 million twenty-feet equivalent units (TEUs) in container traffic in 2020.

According to the Northern Corridor Dashboard Quarterly Performance Report for the period October to December 2020, transit time from Mombasa to Kampala reduced from 167 to 131 hours, 167 to 135 hours from Mombasa to Elegu, 214 to 187 hours from Mombasa to Kigali, and from 216 to 160 hours Mombasa to Mpondwe. The positive trend was greatly attributed to the opening up of borders by the Northern Corridor Member States and implementing the Regional Electronic Cargo and Driver Tracking System (RECDTS).