Central Corridor performs badly in the first quarter of this year

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The corridor connects the Dar es Salaam Port with Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo.

“While conditions in the East Africa region have continued to be challenging due to political instability, ongoing macroeconomic headwinds and drought conditions affecting certain countries, we’re seeing healthy competition between the two corridors, both fighting for position in terms of some of the ‘swing’ countries that could export or import cargo through either corridor, specifically Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda.” The containerised market in the Central Corridor represents a different picture to that in the Northern Corridor, having contracted in both directions, says Mr Felder. “In the Tanzania market, there have been a number of duty increases on various products, such as cement, paper, sugar and furniture, which reduce the buying power and ultimately the levels of demand for those products. Part of this is to stimulate local industry, such as sugar production, but there is also a definite drive for increased tax collection in the country,” he says.

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