South African Airways (SAA) today joined the world’s first internationally benchmarked and transparent carbon offset programme, giving its passengers the opportunity to make voluntary contributions in the global effort to offset the effects of...
The maritime industry in Africa may see a ‘maritime development bank’ be introduced to assist in financing the industry. One of the outcomes of the African Maritime Administrations and Ship Registrars’ conference in Mombasa was that the...
Rising costs hurt domestic operators. SAA has provided no guarantee that its latest bail out package of R5bn will not be used to prop up operations in the domestic market. This is precisely the concern of other local airlines forced to operate in...
The ongoing strike by truck drivers, which is holding South Africa at ransom, may now bleed into other transport sectors. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) says the strike action may be expanded into the ports and rail...
The CEO of South African Airways (SAA), Siza Mzimela has announced her retirement from the battling airline. She notified SAA employees on Monday morning confirming her resignation via email stating “this is not a random move”. “I have...
Kenya Railway Corporation (KRC) has revived an international tender for a design and build turnkey project for a 7km commuter line in Nairobi after it was suspended in the second quarter when Kenya put on hold a planned $US 200m infrastructure...
According to Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven, motorists should resist buying e-tags as Cosatu strongly opposes e-tolling. “The federation rejects the argument for ‘user-pays’ for basic public services like our roads, and...
Transport industry experts have slammed the government for giving the South African Airways a R5-billion guarantee, labelling as being the decision anti-competitive. The Treasury this week awarded the R5-billion guarantee to the ailing state-owned...
The Transport Minister has tabled the below Bill in Parliament today, which seeks to regulate e-tolling. According to its Memorandum, the Bill is necessary to enable the collection of tolls for the GFIP, which implies that e-tolling won’t be...
On October 16 and 17 the second Clean Technology business and investment matchmaking conference for the African continent is to be held at the Killarney Country Club in Lower Houghton, Johannesburg. Called ‘Viridis Africa’, the event is dedicated...
