while domestic infrastructure comprises about of transport costs in the trade of coastal countries for landlocked countries domestic and transit country infrastructure together account for an estimated poor road conditions can similarly hold back the growing online retail sector they can be a nightmare for smes selling on ecommerce sites and for the logistics companies that make their deliveries transport costs can account for as much as of the retail price of goods in areas where quality road and rail networks are lacking some of the continent s population have no access to postal services while only have the benefit of home mail delivery removing the high costs of transport and logistics resulting from inefficient transport infrastructure would undoubtedly facilitate the last mile delivery of items