Unlocking Africa’s Industrial Corridors

May 3, 2017
16:30–17:30 (Africa/Johannesburg time zone)

About this session

Africa’s multimodal transport corridors are expensive and inefficient, restricting business activity and intra-regional trade. How can extractive transport corridors be transformed to drive local industrial development? Dimensions to be addressed: - Developing growth poles within the corridors - Building locomotives and integrating drones into supply chains - Harmonizing cross-border standards...
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