Central Corridor organised the First Steering Committee meeting on Lake Tanganyika Integrated Transport Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Dar es Salaam. 08, October 2018: The Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CC-TTFA) through its mandate on Trade Facilitation along the region, organised the first technical committee meeting on Lake Tanganyika Integrated Transport Programme from 8^th to 9^th October 2018 at New Africa Hotel. The main objective of the meeting was to consider and review the implementation progress of the programme ahead of the Regional Meeting to be held in Bujumbura, Burundi on 16^th to 18^th October, 2018.

The meeting was attended by Permanent Secretaries and their representatives from the Lake Tanganyika beneficiary countries:

The CC-TTFA Executive Secretary, Capt. Dieudonné Dukundane, opened the meeting and welcomed the Permanent Secretaries to the meeting.

The Central Corridor Transit Transport Facilitation Agency (CC-TTFA) is a multilateral Agency established on 2nd September, 2006, formed by an Agreement by the five Governments of the Republic of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), The Republic of Rwanda, The United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Uganda.

The TTFA is charged with the promotion of transport utilization of the Central Corridor, encouraging the maintenance, upgrading, improvement and development of infrastructure and supporting service facilities at port, rail, lake, road border posts and along the route to meet user requirements, ensure open competition and reduce the costs of transit transport for land-locked Member States.