Commercial transport, fleet operations and industrial mobility across Africa.
Uganda
Investment and fleet direction
Petroleum remains one of the strongest drivers of fleet investment. KATRACO’s tanker and flatbed capacity and KK Transporters’ 100-plus trucks sit inside a market increasingly shaped by regional fuel distribution, construction and cross-border trade.
OEM brands competing for fleet orders
Mercedes-Benz, Scania, MAN, Isuzu, FUSO and Chinese heavy-truck brands all compete for a fleet base that must tolerate long transit cycles and variable road conditions.
Dealers, workshops and aftersales
Kampala is the principal sales and workshop centre, but the real competitive test is support along the Northern Corridor and towards the western oil and mining regions.
Taxation and import treatment
Uganda’s current transport-sector incentive schedule lists commercial vehicles of 20 tonnes and above and road tractors for semi-trailers as free of import duty for the stated incentive period, with VAT payable. Goods vehicles above 5 tonnes but not exceeding 20 tonnes carry a reduced 10% import duty under the same schedule.
New versus used equipment
Used-vehicle valuation is based on the customs valuation database rather than invoice price alone. Environmental levies and age treatment vary by vehicle category, making the tax position of older goods vehicles materially different from that of newer fleet purchases.
Uganda’s current public fleet disclosures are thinner than Kenya’s or Tanzania’s, but the market still contains several substantial truck owners. The strongest current figures sit around 100 trucks, while an older regional competition study recorded Pan Africa Impex at 400 trucks, Mansons Uganda at 270 and Ashraf Transporters at 105. Those older figures are useful historical markers but are not treated as current fleet counts here.