Improving Transnational Transport Corridors
In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases
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Figure 19: Network of SADC Corridors
Source: GIZ.
Some of the features of the SADC corridors that made them successful were:
1. Common Political objectives
2. A history of cooperation (colonial mostly)
3. SADC and corridor secretariats established
4. Funding from the international community for roads, railways and ports
5. Common Languages (English and Portuguese)
6. English Common Laws
7. Same road and rail design and operational standards
Some infrastructure bottlenecks do exist, like the lack of river bridges as shown in
and for this reason the SADC Transport Master Plan was prepared which has been reviewed
for this study.