Kenya trails Rwanda, Burundi in ‘open’ road transport

Cargo trucks queue at the Elegu border crossing between Uganda and South Sudan.

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Kenya’s road transport is ranked the third most ‘open’ among the eight partner States of the East African Community (EAC), trailing Rwanda and Burundi, a joint scorecard by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization (WTO) showed.

The Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) by the World Bank and WTO measures regulatory barriers in road freight services and their hindrance to market access.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.