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The capacity of the port of Walvis Bay is expected to increase through ongoing investment projects; therefore, increased attention must be given to the sustainable management of international logistics.
This will enable Namibia to become a logistics center for the Southern African Development Community region by 2025.
The first report on the state of logistics in Namibia for 2018 published by the Walvis Bay corridor group said Tuesday that the growth trajectory of the main components of the gross domestic product was following more or less the same trajectory.
He said that the throughput of the port of Walvis Bay in 2018 showed an improvement in its volumes in September, exceeding the 2017 figures by 6,159 metric tonnes.
This represents a significant increase of 9.2%, from 66 769 tonnes in September 2017 to 72 928 tonnes in September 2018. Namibia's performance in areas such as trade, community participation, documentation Automation and information availability have improved over the period 2015-2017, although appeal procedures, as well as governance and impartiality have decreased, based on the indicators of trade facilitation.
The report also notes that the port of Walvis Bay handled 93.1% of total cargo (gross tonnage) pbading through neighboring countries in 2017, Zambia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana and the United States. Zimbabwe being the main transit markets. freight in volume.
Zambia was the dominant market for goods in transit and accounted for 51.8% of all inbound transit goods through the port in 2017, compared with 47.9% in 2016, representing a 50.9% increase in the volume of goods in transit. imports. this country. Similarly, Zambian exports consisting mainly of copper and wood products accounted for 85.7% of the total cargo volume in transit, in volume (metric tons), compared to 72.5% in 2016.
The report also states that the Namibian rail network carries about 1.2 billion tonnes of freight a year.
– Nampa
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