Trademark East Africa (TMEA) intends to embark on advocating for the removal of trade barriers and facilitating new projects to amplify the smoothening of doing business as its new priorities.The removal of non tariff barriers on northern and central corridors is intended to diminish on transport costs that hinder EAC citizens in landlocked partner states like Rwanda and Uganda.Main priorities will be financing the construction of One Stop Border Posts (OSBP) in order to facilitate the free movement of goods in the region as well as advocating for the elimination of traders to reduce on transport costs.

Kenya intends to spend $25bn overall on its second major port, both to provide an export gateway for oil-rich southern Sudan but also to stimulate trade and economic development in Kenya’s under-developed northern region as well as offer landlocked Uganda an alternative port gateway.

SeaIntel Maritime Analysis has launched a new portal which will allow all parties involved in international trade to and from Africa to obtain information on the status of African ports.Africa really has made some significant steps forward in opening its doors to international trade in the past decade. We have seen an influx of international terminal operators, carriers, supply chain solution providers as well as a host of new entrepeneurs from all parts of the world. Africa has shown and continues to show immense potential.

Logistics specialist Grindrod had significant infrastructure spend planned going forward, said CEO Alan Olivier on Thursday.One of the areas Grindrod was targetting for development was Mozambique, where the company was a partner in the Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC).Looking further into the future, he added that Grindrod was interrogating development opportunities on some of the main commodity transport corridors in Africa, such as the coal export corridors in Southern Africa, the copper corridor going from Zambia through to Angola, and the iron-ore, gas, oil, and bauxite corridor in West Africa.

DHL Global Forwarding adds eight new destinations in West and Central Africa bringing DHL SEAIR Asia-Africa point pairs to 1,000 plus.DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist within Deutsche Post DHL, is further boosting Asia-Africa trade lane growth by expanding its multi-modal product combining ocean freight and air freight services to eight new destinations in Africa. Dubbed "DHL SEAIR", the combined sea and air freight solution is now expanded to Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Dakar (Senegal), Luanda (Angola), Douala (Cameroon), Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), Pointe Noir (Republic of the Congo).