GTP Roundtable endorses PPP as model for intermodal transport

By Fidelis Ugbomeh
 
Need to take a critical look at current reliance on roads for evacuation of 90% freight compared to 1% recorded through rail mode formed part of consensus reached at the end of 2006 Annual Global Transport Policy (GTP) Roundtable held recently in Lagos.
Participants at the Global Transport Policy roundtable agreed that near total reliance on road mode has to be tilted through unhindered rail access for long-distance evacuation of freight on narrow and standard gauge corridors from Lagos to the hinterland.
They noted that reliance on road has led to inefficiency, gridlocks, increasing cost of freight due to roads easily damaged by trucks loaded with bulky goods...