Namibia: Botswana No Longer Landlocked

15 September 2009

"AS of today, Botswana is no longer landlocked," the CEO of the Namibian Port Authority (Namport), Bisey Uirab, said after he and Botswana High Commissioner, Norman Molebege, signed a lease agreement for a Botswana dry port in Walvis Bay on Friday.

The 36 000m' land adjacent to the south end of Walvis Bay's harbour and railway station will allow Botswana to have a direct link via the Trans-Kalahari corridor to a harbour.

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