With forty percent of the total throughput at the Port of Mombasa currently carried out by rail Transport to Nairobi leaving significannt volume of cargo on road transport, by all accounts, road transport still remains the most important means of Transport along the Northern Corridor. Thus the high level of road fatalities still witnessed on the Northern Corridor Road Networks.

An assessment of ten priority road accident black spots was carried out by Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority (NCTTCA), Kenya National Highway Authority (KeNHA), National Transport and Safety Agency (NTSA), Kenya Transporters Association (KTA) and Kenya Traffic Police from the 4th to 8th of March 2019 along the Northern Corridor routes from Mombasa to Kisumu. The aim of the survey was to identify, diagnose and address issues that lead to rampant loss of lives in the road accidents along the corridor.

Hon. James Macharia, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, and Urban Development, Republic of Kenya; who took over office as the Chairperson of the NCTTCA Council of Ministers for the next two year (2019-2021) from Hon. John Luk Jok, Minister of Transport, Republic of South Sudan; reiterated the commitment of the Government of the Republic of Kenya to work together with all the Northern Corridor Member States, and continue joint effort to support the Northern Corridor Secretariat to implement programs aimed at achieving all the objectives in the Northern Corridor Treaty.

There is a new-found Political will and High-level Commitments by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Uganda to develop and upgrade the Northern Corridor Road Sections of Mbarara-Bushenyi-Kikorongo-Mpondwe-Kasindi-Beni-Komanda-Kisangani (940Km). This is part of the Trans-African Highway (TAH) Network N0 8 from Lagos, in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Mombasa, in the Republic of Kenya, that is expected to open the whole of Africa to interstate trade.