Problems with container Shipments from abroad!

Port Sudan

The north has no obligations to allow the south to use any of their Ports, for instance, Port Sudan for bringing in their goods and shipments from anywhere in the world like they used to do before the separation of the country. The north has unlimited liberty and powers to impose high tariffs and customs charges on any foreigners’ goods and shipments that come through their ports in the north unless there is a special arrangement, which can only be done through the bilateral agreements to let them have the accessibility of their ports. That bilateral agreement does not exist, and nothing was included in the CPA agreement that said the south can use the same international Port for their shipments of goods from abroad, regardless of whether they voted for cessation or not. While they agreed on sharing revenues that come from the oils sales which are taken from the south to the shipping terminal in the north in Port Sudan to be exported abroad. If they agreed on that, why did they not agree on other imports and exports of goods? That was the biggest failure of the CPA agreement. But that is not the only problem as far as we know. The distance is 1,263.09 miles (2,033.74 km by flight and is 1.517.73 miles (2,444.16 km), which is awfully far by land – driving which can take weeks or months for the goods to arrive from Port Sudan to anywhere in the south. And nowadays, none of these opportunities do even exist anymore.

Mombasa Port

Mombasa Port

The driving route from Mombasa is 2,584 miles approximately as far as Port Sudan is, and can take many weeks for goods and shipments to arrive from Mombasa to anywhere in the south. And there is no obvious alternative route apart from Mombasa in East Africa. And the clearing of foreigners’ goods and shipments in Mombasa is one of the biggest headaches to anyone, who wishes to use their Port for imports and exports or even tried to rely on it. It would have been better if the south were to lease land in Mombasa then developed it into their own Port for the purposes of importing and exporting goods and shipments, to be in control in handling their own businesses, tariffs, and customs charges, but nobody has thought of it because they did not care. In addition, there are no safe motorways for a large shipment to come by roads from that long distance – Mombasa to anywhere in the south. The third alternative is, of course, the airlift cargoes which is too expensive for 99% of the population, even for the local commuters and travellers, nobody can afford the air travel from location to a location anywhere in the south except that UN personnel, international NGOs, and few top officers of the government. None of the neighbouring countries did develop any trade routes and corridors or global communication network system with the south even before the cessation of the south. So, how does the population of the landlocked regions of Koo | Greater Upper Nile survive, without a secured outlet? That is why the vast number of the populations, who were being affected by the man-made and natural disasters were depending on the relief and handouts from the international NGOs, which is insufficient because it is flew in by airlifts from abroad, as far as Europe, America, Canada, Middle East, Australia, and so forth.