The Rwandan government intends to maintain a double corridor system in its efforts to have access to the Indian Ocean ports in the shortest time possible and at the cheapest cost, the Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported on Wednesday. “Rwanda intends to maintain the use of the central corridor which has a dry port at Isaka in northern Tanzania for the purpose of providing Rwandan traders with an opportunity to conduct business more quickly and at a cheaper cost,” RNA quoted Rwanda’s general secretary for transport and communication Ephraim Rutaboba as saying. “The central corridor is an alternative that we hope might keep prices lower and save transit time for goods to and from the coast.” He said there are plans to establish another dry port in Kampala for the central corridor in order to improve the speed and cost-effectiveness of Rwandan imports and exports. Rwanda has in the past solely depended on the port of Mombasa with the northern corridor network that runs through Kenya and Uganda. This corridor also serves Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan.
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