Improving Transnational Transport Corridors

In the OIC Member Countries: Concepts and Cases

Air Transport

SADC record that air transport is a global enterprise based on commercial considerations. (As

if other transport enterprises are not commercial!) Operations are governed by international

conventions that stipulate SARPs under the auspices of ICAO. SADC concluded that there is

need to expedite the establishment of an oversight body at the SADC level to augment the

safety oversight capacity of national civil aviation authorities and to facilitate harmonization of

regulatory and operating systems and procedures. One question is if this is really needed, what

is SADC benchmarking with?

But there should be a regional air traffic control hub

modeled on Euro-control in Brussels

Issues of market access in compliance with the Continental market liberalization initiatives

within the framework of the Yamoussoukro Decision need to be addressed. The same will

almost certainly apply to all regions except North America and Europe. SADC has identified

priorities for cooperation including integration of the Regional upper air space,

implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision, incorporation of ICAO SARPs into national

legislation and establishing joint regional training institutions.

Intermodal Development

A number of dry port projects are under construction or in the planning stages in the SADC

Plan (Dry ports are needed to move cargo quickly away from congested sea ports for

processing before onward transportation). It is noted that there is a need to ensure that there

is adequate network of road rail transfer points. This is possibly as important as evolving the

concept of dry ports or ICDs.

Intermodality is particularly applied to movement of containers from one mode of transport to

another

but it also applies to where vehicles of one mode can use another, such as a ferry, roll

on roll off, piggy back railways etc, as shown i