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In terms of internal security and especially liability, international logistics chains need to be
supported by international law. Goods moved between a multiple of countries need a common
set of laws with respect to liability for damage, theft and other causes of loss. If not,
commercial risks are greater, insurance premiums much higher and consequently so are
trading costs.
As regards safety along the EU transport corridors, with 9 accidents per 100,000 registered
vehicles they provide some of the safest roads in the World.
Table 4: Road fatalities EU-28 in 2014
Total passenger cars (million) 249.8
Total commercial freight vehicles (million) 35.86
Road fatalities
Number 25974
Per 100.000 registered vehicles 9
Source: Fimotions (2017), data source: EU Transport in Figures 2016.
Self-regulation of the trucking industry is the best way to ensure that operational standards
are kept especially using tracking devices to detect speeding, driver hours and overloading.
Driver coaching is a part of package of training measures that can be introduced. National Road
Freight Associations enforce regulations, and only accredited members will be able to get work
and pass through corridors without interference from Police and other agencies. Self-
regulation also has the added benefit of helping to restructure road trucking industries from
being one-man operations to large modern fleets of low polluting, high performance vehicles.
3.7. Technical and Operational Factors
3.7.1. Southern Africa Development Community
While TEN-T does provide the ideal in terms of the most successful corridors, it is an almost
impossible example to follow. In SADC, the transport corridors were first set up in the 1980’s
with the explicit objective of developing alternative routes to those that pass through South
Africa. They were supported by the international community due to their rejection of
apartheid. There was, therefore, a strong political motivation for countries to work together.
The corridors identified and then developed all started (or ended) at a gateway port. Another
reason for promoting corridors in Southern Africa is due the preponderance of Land Locked
Countries (LLCs). The present day network of SADC Corridors is shown in which
also shows the proximity of South Africa and also the preponderance of LLCs.