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4.5.11. Recommendation
The main recommendations for TAH1 are as follows:
1. To establish a TAH1 secretariat
This will enable the route to be promoted, monitoring data to be processed and,
importantly, provide a forum for political issues to be dealt with. Note here that in post
war Balkans the EU set up a transport observatory called SEETO58. Besides the obvious
transport objectives, the overriding one was to create a platform upon which better
international relations could be built following the very bloody war. SEETO still operates
in 2017 and provides a very good model for a secretariat.
2. To promote the opening of the Algiers border
The OIC and Arab League should promote the opening of the Algiers border, which is
hampering the trade tremendously.
4.6. Northern Transit Transport Corridor
4.6.1. General factors
Historically it is worth noting that Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania (UKT) were once members of
the former colonial East African Community until 1972 and have a tradition of political
cooperation, regional integration and harmonization. English provides the common language,
legislation and education. The shilling is the currency in all the UKT countries though not
economically related, at the present time. This has made it much easier to make progress with
more contemporary political and economic initiatives.
The Northern corridor is the transport corridor linking the land locked countries of Uganda,
Rwanda and Burundi with Kenya’s maritime port of Mombasa. Uganda is the only OIC member
state. The NTTC serves Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Southern
Sudan (S. Sudan) and Northern Tanzania59. The Northern Corridor infrastructure comprises
road, rail, pipeline and inland waterways and connects all the five countries of the East African
Community and beyond. The network is fed by the gateway Port of Mombasa and segmented
by inland container terminals in Kenya. The map of the corridor is shown in In this
review, the impact of NTTC on all five countries of the East African Community will be looked
at. Data for this analysis has been obtained from numerous studies that have been carried out,
more information has been collected from the NTTC secretariat.
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