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East Africa

Cargo to and from Rwanda

Reachable by two corridors, and the choice between them is commercial.

All 13 countries

Rwanda is served by two corridors, and unlike most landlocked markets in the region it genuinely uses both. The Northern Corridor runs from Mombasa through Kampala and crosses at Gatuna, about 1,700 km. The Central Corridor runs from Dar es Salaam and crosses at Rusumo, roughly 1,400 km. Neither is permanently the right answer.

Which one a shipment takes comes down to port congestion, border conditions, and rate at the time of booking, so the useful thing is not to be tied to one. Britex works both, moves bonded cargo across either, and handles the transit formalities on the leg that applies. Kigali is the destination for most of it, and the logistics platform there is where clearance and deconsolidation usually happen.

At a glance

Two
corridors serving Kigali
1,700 km
Mombasa to Kigali by road
1,400 km
Dar es Salaam to Kigali by road
Kigali
principal destination

How cargo reaches Rwanda

Principal routing

  1. Port of Mombasa
  2. Malaba border
  3. Kampala
  4. Gatuna border
  5. Kigali

Via the Central Corridor

  1. Dar es Salaam
  2. Rusumo border
  3. Kigali

We don’t publish transit times against a route. Distance and corridor are geography; what a specific container takes depends on the border, the season and the vessel. Ask us and we’ll commit to a timing against your actual shipment.

Destinations we deliver to

KigaliMusanzeRubavuHuye

Border posts on these routes

Gatuna and KatunaRusumoNemba and Gasenyi
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What moves on this lane

The commodities that dominate Rwanda’s containerised trade, and what we are most often asked to handle.

Inbound to Rwanda

  • Consumer goods and retail stock
  • Construction materials and cement inputs
  • Machinery and vehicles
  • Agricultural inputs and fertiliser

Outbound from Rwanda

  • Coffee and tea
  • Tin, tantalum and tungsten concentrates
  • Horticulture, under reefer
  • Processed foods

What we handle for Rwanda

Britex has presence and yards across the thirteen countries we cover. The same six services apply on this lane as on every other.

Also in East Africa

Moving cargo to Rwanda?

Tell us the destination and what’s in the box, and we’ll come back with the routing and what it takes to get there.