This first meeting was to introduce the NTB reporting mechanism to stakeholders in East and Southern Africa, to improve the efficiency of the system and to resolve as many NTBs as possible. The meeting was sponsored by TMSA and FESARTA’s travel and...
China will be investing US$10Â billion (R90.18Â billion)in a new port at Bagamoyo, Tanzania. The investment will also be used for infrastructure related to the port improvement and to boost trade in the region. The new port will be able to handle 20...
Tractomas the world’s largest semi-truck which is capable of pulling a road train weighing 535 tonnes, is fitted with 385/95R25 Goodyear GP-2B tyres. The truck, built by French heavy-haulage vehicle specialist Nicolas, has been ordered by mining...
Continuing its ‘greening’ efforts – Engen Petroleum is purchasing nine new trucks which run on 50ppm cleaner automotive diesel oil (ADO). Jeeva Chetty, national operations manager at Engen, says “This follows the company’s purchase of two new...
Pictured: Managing director of UD Trucks southern Africa, Jacques Carelse Year-on-year truck sales grew during March despite a string of public holidays and subsequent fewer selling days, albeit with only five units. The industry sold a total of...
The Electronic-Air Waybill (e-AWB) has been implemented by Emirates SkyCargo, becoming the first carrier to do so under the industry’s recently ratified multilateral e-AWB standard. Emirates SkyCargo has been at the forefront of adopting...
Pictured: Dr Dinesh Kumar, Associate Director, Head of Supply Chain & Procurement,Management Consulting for KPMG Supply chains are becoming global and complex. The logistics, especially the transport functions, are equally becoming convoluted....
The total number of non-tariff barriers affecting business within the Comesa, EAC and SADC regions is 566. Sixty of these are dealt with by Fesarta (Federation of East and Southern Africa Road Transport Associations),as these are only those that...
Weekly state of reservoirs report as at 15 April 2013. Click below for the report: weekly
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced an organizational restructuring of its main divisions and regional operations to even better address the needs of its 240 member airlines. Senior management changes were also announced to...
