Planning ahead must inevitably include looking back. For supply chain professionals, strategies for the New Year will be shaped by lessons learnt in the past one. SCM World’s chief content officer, Kevin O’Marah, recently released his “Top 10...
The Fresh Connection, one of the best supply chain learning tools in the world, is heading back to South Africa in 2015. Hans Kremer, partner at The Fresh Connection’s developers, Inchainge, will be presenting a workshop about the tool at the...
Namibia has taken a step closer in becoming an international logistics hub for Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries with the release of a draft master plan. It was indicated in the report commissioned by the Namibian government...
Update on RTMS, from the National Steering Committee meeting, held on 18th November 2014 and 20th January 2015. South Africa introduced new regulations, including the 80kph sign required on the rear of commercial vehicles, and the responsibility...
The National Department of Transport has published the long awaited Twenty Second Regulation Amendment (previously referred to as the Twenty First Amendment) to the National Road Traffic Regulations. The Government Gazette is No 38142 published on...
The South African-based Grindrod has invested $500 million for the construction of the first phase of two, of Zambia’s North West Rail project. The railway line aimed at linking Angola and Zambia will be 580 km long and will connect Zambia’s copper...
Justice Project South Africa (JPSA) has said that there remains little chance of Gauteng motorists accepting e-tolling despite hints that the Gauteng advisory panel has proposed the lowering of e-toll fees. This was in reaction to a summary of...
Just six months after FAW opened its Coega plant to assemble trucks locally, the first five export units have been dispatched to the FAW dealership in Kenya. On 16 January, the five FAW J5P truck tractor units headed off to TransAfrica Motors based...
According to Richard’s Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) CEO, Nosipho Siwisa-Damasane, exports from the terminal reached a record level for 2014. In 2014, the terminal shipped 71.2 million tonnes in comparison to the 70.2 million tonnes in 2013. Rail...
