Ever since it was opened in 1879, the Suez Canal has been the most important transport artery in Egypt and a lynchpin of the global economic system – some 10% of world trade passes through the canal each year. As such, the canal is a major revenue earner for the government, with toll fees totalling $5.1bn in 2012, roughly a 10th of the country’s...
Egypt has long served one of the world’s oldest transport hubs. For millennia, its position, straddling major trade routes between Asia, Africa and Europe, has made the country a commercial and cultural crossroads, and since 1879 it has been home to the Suez Canal, through which 10% of the world’s total trade volume passes.
While Egypt’s road network continues to expand, along with the numbers of vehicles and pedestrians using it, there is growing concern that more investment is needed to further modernise the nation’s carriageways. With a high accident rate and increasing congestion, developing a more efficient and safer road system is now widely recognised by...
One area of the Egyptian transport sector that stands to see a new lease of life is river transport, which currently accounts for less than 1% of all goods transported within the country. Historically, the Nile was Egypt’s main transport route for millennia, but the advent of the railways and later, motorways, made river transport seem out-dated. As...
The development of road transport infrastructure is one area that can greatly contribute to economic growth in Gabon, mostly by providing access to the interior of the country, where many resources are still unexploited due to poor transport links. The government is aware of this potential and has prioritised the development of a road network to...
The development and maintenance of the road network is of major importance to Gabon in terms of the transport of people and goods, and connecting the mining and agriculture industries in the interior to export points on the coast. Up until 2012, road maintenance had fallen under the purview of the Second Generation Road Maintenance Fund (Fonds d’...
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