Namibia has a well-established road infrastructure, regarded as one of the best on the continent. The majority of towns and communities can be reached via a road network comprising more than 44,500 km.
The country is linked by road to Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo. Namibia has 4 corridors Trans-Kalahari via Botswana, Trans-Caprivi, Trans-Cunene via Angola to DRC and Trans-Oranje via South Africa that links to SADC countries.
The Trans-Kalahari and the Trans-Caprivi highways provide a fast and comfortable road link between the Namibian port of Walvis Bay on the Atlantic coast and her landlocked neighbouring countries.
The highways provide a regional transport corridor intended to reduce shipping times for imports and exports from the neighbouring countries to the markets of Western Europe and the Americas by at least five days compared to traditional routes in southern Africa.
Namibia has also committed to upgrading 1,480 km of roads over the next five years which will improve accessibility across the country. Despite such extensive road network, most of the country’s road infrastructure has been in existence prior to independence and are in urgent need of rehabilitation and maintenance.