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File photo / Lebombo border post in South Africa gives access to Mozambique through the Ressano Garcia post, located in Maputo province, south of the country
Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative (MCLI) worked closely with SARS at head office and at Lebombo over the past weekend to resolve the crisis at the Lebombo Border Post, which resulted from the closure of one of the exit lanes due to the refurbishment of the paving of the truck bypass. Our intervention resulted in SARS deploying additional IT and HR capacity to the border post to deal with the backlog, and operating hours were extended to clear the backlog. The entire situation drove home to all concerned how important it is for all stakeholders to communicate with each other in every aspect of corridor operations. The strongest point made to our public sector partners was that this crisis would have been averted had the refurbishment plans been made available to us before the closure of the lanes. The considerable losses to all sectors in the supply chain fall squarely within the ambit of very poor planning and a dire lack of communication with our organisation, which has done nothing but support and work with these authorities for the past 14 years. Our thanks to SARS for taking rapid action to address the crisis.
We have contacted our members to provide us with an indication of the costs, both financial and other, that these delays have had on operations and we invite all sectors, whether MCLI members or not, to communicate with us to give us a clearer picture of what this has entailed for your operation.
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