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D-trade-corridor Dictionary

Trade Corridor

A road, rail and port route linking producers to markets across borders

All termsIntroduced in Module 5Open the Toolkit
An open dictionary on a farm office desk
Plain meaning
A road, rail and port route linking producers to markets across borders
How to use it
Map the corridor from the farm to the buyer, including border posts, and price its time and cost in the delivered-cost calculator.
South African benchmark
South Africa's ports at Durban and Cape Town anchor the regional corridors.
Country notes
Key corridors include Beitbridge between Zimbabwe and South Africa, Kazungula between Zambia and Botswana, and the Walvis Bay corridors.
Go and read
C5
Calculate it
T-C-05 Delivered Cost Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A016, LIB-A025
See also
Value density, Non-tariff barrier
Map of trade flows from South Africa into the four local marketsSouth AfricaZimbabweZambiaBotswanaNamibiaTrade corridorsSouth Africa supplies the regionImport parity sets the ceilingExport parity sets the floorBans and levies move the priceMain flows
Trade corridor, shown as a diagram.

Introduced in C5 Logistics and Cold Chain.