‘Transport sector drives commerce’

TRANSPORT Infrastructure is one of the pivotal vehicles to economic growth and plays a key role in socio-economic development through the movement of goods and passengers.

The transport sector facilitates economic activities and access to local, regional and international markets. But despite all this, the local transport sector is facing numerous challenges, chief among them lack of maintenance for trunk roads, skills flight, inadequate funding for projects and lack of an integrated approach in transport policy formulation.

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