A complete of 645,590 travellers handed by means of the Beitbridge Border Submit throughout the lately concluded 2024 festive season, highlighting the surge in cross-border motion throughout the vacation interval, in response to South Africa’s Border Administration Authority (BMA).
The BMA reported a major improve in traveller numbers throughout all ports of entry in comparison with the earlier 12 months, with Beitbridge and OR Tambo Worldwide Airport experiencing the best volumes of visitors.
Beitbridge: A Key Transit Level
Beitbridge, South Africa’s busiest inland border crossing, usually data a mean of 15,000 day by day crossings throughout off-peak durations. Nonetheless, this quantity surged to just about 3 times the standard quantity as travellers from Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo made their method throughout the border for the festive season.
General Festive Season Journey Numbers
Based on the BMA, a complete of 5,084,251 travellers moved by means of South Africa’s 71 ports of entry over the festive season, representing a rise of 51,680 in comparison with the 2023/2024 festive interval. Regardless of this rise, the determine stays beneath pre-pandemic ranges, which noticed roughly six million travellers throughout the identical interval.
OR Tambo Worldwide Airport recorded the best variety of travellers at 1,065,636, adopted carefully by Beitbridge with 645,590 and the Lebombo border crossing to Mozambique with 571,131.
Car and Cargo Motion Statistics at Beitbridge Border
The BMA additionally processed an intensive variety of autos, together with 395,189 personal vehicles, 12,974 minibus taxis, and 6,071 buses. The elevated visitors at Beitbridge and different key border posts underscored the significance of environment friendly motion management methods to facilitate cross-border journey throughout peak durations.
By way of cargo motion, 58,938 vans had been processed, with 47,891 used for exports and 11,047 for imports. Beitbridge recorded the best variety of import vans at 5,521, whereas Lebombo processed essentially the most exports at 18,544 vans.
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