TradeMark Southern Africa

The border post at Beit Bridge is an extremely important border on the North South Corridor, with significant numbers of trucks and passenger vehicles going to and from the South African ports and, to a lesser extent, Maputo, and countries to the north such as Zimbabwe, Zambia, DR Congo and Malawi. There are also instances in which the land route to the north, into Tanzania and even into Sudan, has been used in preference to the sea route. It is a border post that experiences extreme forms of traffic congestion at peak periods, and was identified by the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite as the most important border post, after Chirundu One-Stop Border Post, to work on.  This is a report on progress made in this regard.