Dry port�s hopes lie with SMEs

Friday, February 09, 2018

Hope rising: Makwinja believes an aggressive marketing campaign will boost the dry port

Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have injected new hope into the country’s dry port at Walvis Bay, a P40 million investment that hitherto had been slowly turning into a white elephant.

In the last quarter of 2017, traffic began building up at the Port with about 72 containers belonging to SMEs and full of imports from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. The dry port also handled 217 units of vehicles and equipment destined for Botswana.

Botswana Railways (BR) chief executive officer, Leonard Makwinja told BusinessWeek that traffic at the dry port was growing, though not at the envisaged pace.

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Dry port�s hopes lie with SMEs

Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have injected new hope into the country’s dry port at Walvis Bay, a P40 million investment that hitherto had been slowly turning into a white elephant.

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