Struggling state-owned rail utility, TransNamib Holdings Ltd plans to hand control of its parcel and road freight business to 1,000 of its soon-to-be retrenched employees. The rail utility wants the retrenched workers and their unions to take...
Real World Lessons You Won’t Learn at Business School Most Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations are way too complicated, with too few people in the organisation who understand how to apply it. That’s according to US-based business...
Funding for the expansion works at the second container terminal at the Port of Mombasa will be supplied by the Japanese government to the tune of $270Â million. National Treasury Cabinet secretary Henry Rotich said the financing will be used for...
Click on the links below to view the South African ports report: – TNPA December Vessels click here – TNPA December cargo Handled click here
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (Fiata) has put its support behind the call to eliminate the fuel and security surcharges in airline freight rates. “Recent statements of some airlines’ freight divisions announcing...
According to a report by Zambian daily newspaper, The Post, the weakening of Zambia’s local currency against major global currencies has increased the price of importing goods and as a result, has affected local business. It was reported that...
According to the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Sacci) December Trade Conditions Survey, South Africa’s non-seasonally adjusted Trade Activity Index (TAI) for December 2014 was four points above the TAI index for the same period in 2013....
A derailed Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) train that was travelling from Bellville to Caledon on 18 January 2015 is currently under investigation by the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR). The derailment occurred at Faure Station (between Eerste River and...
An ongoing programme to upgrade and expand the container-handling capacity of the APM Terminals’ global terminal network will receive a big boost with the order of 16 new advanced rubber-tyre gantry cranes. Twelve of the RTGs are scheduled for...
