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COMESA Meets Stakeholders at the Zimbabwe Trade Expo

Bulawayo, Wednesday, April 27, 2022: COMESA Secretariat is participating at the 62nd Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) which is being held in Bulawayo City from 26 – 30 April 2022. This is part of COMESA’s outreach to raise public and stakeholder awareness on regional integration programmes and encourage them to take advantage of the opportunities […]

DDC Engineering upgrades new highway drainage fleet with Truckman Kit

DDC Engineering upgrades new highway drainage fleet with Truckman Kit Truckman, the UK’s leading manufacturer and distributor of pick-up truck and 4×4 accessories, has helped kit out a new fleet of pick-ups with their hardtops and bedliners for a highway maintenance specialist. Wolverhampton-based highways drainage company DDC Engineering acquired five new pick-ups to support its […]

National Highways renews Pavement Decision Support Tool contract with Yotta

National Highways renews Pavement Decision Support Tool contract with Yotta Yotta, the leading global connected asset management and services provider, today announced that National Highways has renewed its contract with the company to implement a Pavement Decision Support Tool (P-DST). National Highways’ P-DST, referred to within the organisation as its Pavement Investment Tool (PIT), is […]

Ringway taking over roadworks for Surrey County Council

Ringway taking over roadworks for Surrey County Council Surrey County Council officially hands over its highways maintenance contract to a new contractor from today, as part of plans to further improve the county’s roads and associated highways infrastructure. Ringway, who will replace Kier, will carry out road repairs, resurfacing and specialist structural projects as well […]

Teledyne FLIR introduces dual Thermal-Visible Camera for Unmanned Systems

Teledyne FLIR introduces dual Thermal-Visible Camera for Unmanned Systems Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the release of its high-performance Hadron 640R combined radiometric thermal and visible dual camera module. The Hadron 640R design is optimized for integration into unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), robotic platforms, and emerging AI-ready […]

Building Capacity for Digitally Enabled Trading System

Implementing digital trade facilitation reforms have positive impacts on intra-COMESA exports. It is estimated that an increase of 10 percent in the adoption of digital trade technologies would result in a 5.5 percent increase in intra-COMESA exports. The regional organization is therefore scaling-up the Free Trade Area (FTA) to a Digital Free Trade Area (DFTA), […]

Coming Soon: A Regional Blue Economy Strategy

COMESA has developed a draft strategy to harness the benefits of the Blue Economy for its 21 Member States. The draft strategy was presented to delegates from the Members States on 26-27 April 2022 in Lusaka, Zambia, where it was reviewed and validated. The concept of the Blue Economy has been embraced by the COMESA […]

EOI – Multinational – Provision of Technical Guidance to the Africa Infrastructure Knowledge Program Estimating Investment Needs for the Power Sector in the Africa Region – SCB V

The project is implemented in all African Development Fund (ADF) eligible Member states, Regional Economic Communities and Statistical Training Centers. The SCB program is the fifth (SCB-5) of ADF funded cycles for strengthening statistical capacity in Africa and is anchored on many years of accumulated practical experience and incremental value addition to the African Statistical […]

EOI – Multinational – Individual Consultancy on Africa Information Highway (AIH) Technical Expert – SCB V

The project is implemented in all African Development Fund (ADF) eligible Member states, Regional Economic Communities and Statistical Training Centers. The SCB program is the fifth (SCB-5) of ADF funded cycles for strengthening statistical capacity in Africa and is anchored on many years of accumulated practical experience and incremental value addition to the African Statistical […]