November 2012 Newsletter
Dear IFRTT Forum subscriber A very successful HVTT12 conference in Stockholm has come and gone, and preparations for HVTT13 in October 2014 in San Luis, Argentina, are well underway. As you have already been informed, the HVTT12 papers are available on the IFRTT website, www.road-transport-technology.org. In my first IFRTT newsletter in July 2010, I gave an account of the excessive delay our family experienced at the Botswana border post during a road trip to Namibia. In particular, I mentioned the negative impact such delays experienced by heavy vehicles have on regional road transport efficiency. Since then, there has been some progress – the first one-stop border post at Chirundu, between Zambia and Zimbabwe opened in late 2010 – but generally speaking the situation has not improved much. To cite an example, the average time and cost for importing and exporting containers in the SADC and COMESA regions are 35 days... Read More