Kenya Revenue Authority has warned clearing and forwarding agents to comply with a directive to operate outside the port of Mombasa or they lose their licences.

The Central Regional Manager of Intercity State Transport Company (STC) coaches, Mr Richard Owusu-Barimah, has warned drivers of the company, to desist from picking illegitimate passengers at unauthorised points when travelling, else they would face dismissal.

The country is still reeling with shock from the recent grisly accident that left 30 people dead. Everyone keeps asking why the carnage on our roads just keeps showing no sign of abating.

Construction of the proposed transit container freight station in Changamwe for cargo destined to Uganda, may start in less than six months, the lead consultant for Great Lakes Ports Limited, has said.

TRANSPORT Minister Jeff Radebe told Johannesburg's taxi industry yesterday that it would be financially better off by participating in the city's planned bus rapid transit (BRT) network.

Establishing clear lines of authority and accountability within the civil aviation regulatory regime was the main task of Parliament's transport committee as it amended the proposed Civil Aviation Bill, committee chairman Jeremy Cronin said yesterday.

KENYA should facilitate Mombasa Port to operate 24 hours, industrialist James Mulwana and chairman of the Commonwealth Business Forum has suggested.

The reconstruction of the Abuja-Lokoja road into a dual-carriage highway is stuck in the mire of distressing paucity of funds without any end in sight. Meanwhile, horrific road traffic carnage occurs unabated there as the road remains narrow for the

UGANDA loses $101m (about sh191.9b) annually due to road accidents, Dennis Kashero, the Hima Cement commercial manager, has said.

THE works ministry is to amend the law so that motorists whose recklessness causes fatal accidents are given deterrent punishments.

The Federal Government yesterday reduced the numbers of clearing agencies at the Nigerian ports to address multiplicity of agencies.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe recently signed a bilateral air transport deal with Iran which will see Air Zimbabwe flying to Teheran five times a week.

Although much has been said and written on the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, but with the passage of time it is becoming clearer that more remains to be said or written on the 30-month fratricidal civil war.

FOR the second time in less than two months Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has lambasted South African Airways (SAA) for cancelling its Johannesburg-Paris route at a time when more French people are visiting SA .

Transportation Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, on Tuesday disclosed how the loss of designs, drawings and maintenance records stalled repairs of the Niger Bridge for which N2.4 billion was approved.

Jigawa state's efforts at creating employment opportunities in the state has received a major private sector boost with Oceanic Bank financing the purchase of 33 buses for the Jigawa Mass Transit scheme; at a total cost of N219 million.

The Ministries of Transport and Commerce in consultation with the relevant stakeholders have disclosed that the new transport fares will take effect beginning today.

In the wake of recent reduction in the price of gasoline, the Liberian Government has released new transportation fare structures.

The Federal Government on Tuesday slashed all port charges and fines by 30 percent, as it also abrogated levies on rice, textile, sugar, NPA terminal and plant hire charges.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has approved across board slashing by 30 per cent of all charges, fees and fines by all regulatory agencies on cargo and goods being cleared at the ports.