Overcoming intercontinental trade barriers remains a key priority for Africa. With this in mind, the continent is prioritising its long standing internal trade barriers to make the long term vision of easier international trade possible. The most...
The digitisation of the ocean shipping industry often creates the suspicion that its business model threatens the traditional container shipping industry. In INTTRA’s latest offering, Blueprint 2032: How Technology Transforms Ocean Container...
Concerns have been raised over leaking fuel and waste after a steamer, that has been idle for two years, sank off the Red Sea port of Suakin on Monday. According to journalist Osman Hashem, the steamer Captain Salem sank in the waters of the Red...
Mounting debt owed to municipalities is “becoming a pandemic” that has the department of corporate governance concerned. This was expressed by minister Des van Rooyen last week when he delivered his department’s 2017 budget speech in the National...
R68 million is being invested into more affordable housing units in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. The province’s human settlements department said the project will be implemented by the Qhama Social Housing Institution and will have 220 units...
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has confirmed that General Motors (GM) has issued a notice of retrenchment, which will result in 600 job losses at their Struandale Port Elizabeth plant by July. The motor company issued a...
In the past nine months, the Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) has completed the construction of six projects with a cost of Br5.3 billion. The construction of the Dansha to Abdurafi road, an alternative road to Harar, the Zarema Maytsbri Sugar Road...
As South Africa swiftly moves towards winter, dam levels are raising concerns again. The department of water and sanitation said despite recent good rains in parts of South Africa, the country’s national average storage decreased 0.2% to 72.9% last...
Cape Town is now “waiting on a miracle” to help save the city from its worst drought in 100 years, city official Gisela Kaiser told delegates at African Utility Week. Kaiser said there was no way the city could have reasonably anticipated the...
At African Utility Week which was held in Cape Town last week, a challenge was put forwards to stakeholders in the water sectors from across Africa – to ensure a water resilient future. This call comes amid a time of extreme drought conditions...
