The East African Community has fully opened after training personnel at 13 stop border posts to facilitate trade and free movement of goods in the region.
The exercise has significantly reduced the time taken by travelers and trucks at the borders from days to 30 minutes respectively, EAC News reports.
The EAC with the support of Trade Mark East Africa is finalizing the completion of the Malaba post on the Kenya-Uganda border at a cost of seven point five million US Dollars.
The Commissioner General of the Kenya Revenue Authority, John Njiraini, discloses that Trade Mark East Africa is supporting the construction of posts at Elegu-Nimule at Uganda-South Sudan border.
It also carries out the building of Tunduma’-Nakonde Tanzania-Zambia and Moyale and Kenya-Ethiopia border, he adds.
The community intends to ensure the flow out and into EAC boundaries with neighbouring countries is smoothened,’ says Njiraini.
He discloses that they installed trade information portals in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda in order to resolve the problem of lack of information to business.