CENTRAL CORRIDOR SHARES ITS ANNUAL TRANSPORT OBSERVATORY REPORT WITH TANZANIA STAKEHOLDERS

Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CCTTFA) today launched its Transport Observatory 2018 Report to its Tanzania stakeholders. The Transport Observatory is a monitoring and evaluation tool developed and used to assess the growth and performance of the transport corridor. It monitors trade and transport flows, bottlenecks, impact of interventions or policy shocks and any other variable that may be considered of interest in understanding the growth and performance of the transport corridor.

Among the activities of the Transport Observatory is to collect data from various stakeholders within Central Corridor member states, undertake data processing and analysis to generate Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and finally generate various reports including the annual report that contains a detailed report of the performance of the Central Corridor.

 

Permanent Secretary, Transport Sector, Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication, Dr. Leonard Chamuriho speaking congratulated CCTTFA for their hard and meticulous effort in producing the Central Corridor Transport Observatory Report and for convening all relevant stakeholders to share the report. “The report contains key findings and recommendations that are essential to understanding the growth and performance of the corridor. It is the ministry’s and government’s hope that today’s deliberations will result in concrete plans, agreed upon by all stakeholders, that will lead to policy change for the prosperity of the corridor.”

Capt. Dieudonne Dukundane, Executive Secretary, CCTTFA reiterated the need for all stakeholders in the transport sector to utilize the Transport Observatory Reports as they contained substantive data that are important in policy and decision making.

The stakeholders come from both government and private sector and include: Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication, TradeMark East Africa (Tanzania), Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA), Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC), Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF), Tanzania Freight Forwarders Association (TAFFA), Tanzania Truck Drivers Association (TTDA), Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANRODS), Tanzania Container Terminal Services (TICTS), Marine Service Tanzania Limited, Tanzania Shipping Agency Corporation (TASAC), Tanzania Police Force, Tanzania Immigration Department and Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture.