PUBLISHER: Freight News (www.freightnews.co.za)
Old nightmares on the north-south route serving southern Africa’s Copperbelt mining area have reappeared to haunt hauliers – border-crossing congestion and crippling road infrastructure slowing road-freight movement to a snail’s pace.
For weeks now long-distance operators have complained about the condition of the road from Chililabombwe in Zambia to the Kasumbalesa border into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).