Information technology (IT) provides the backbone of warehousing businesses. Whether it is for track and trace or to support automation, IT strategies significantly affect what happens in warehouses. Martin Bailey, chairman of Industrial Logistic...
Imagine a train that can travel 600 kilometres in under 40 minutes, is safer than conventional passenger transport, and provides a cheaper alternative to flying… Well, imagine no more. The Hyperloop is set to become a reality in 2016 thanks to Dirk...
In the early hours of 26 March, a fire broke out at the Sun Oil warehouse in Mobeni, south of Durban. The fire, which lasted about six hours, threatened to spread to the adjacent Kansai Plascon warehouse but was prevented by the building’s...
A proposed 476km single gauge railway line that will connect Kampala via Malaba in Eastern Uganda to Nimule in South Sudan – at a cost of $3.2 billion – will receive financial backing from China. Official acceptance of the Engineering...
Kenya recently launched Africa’s first water fund, a public-private partnership aimed at raising $15 million to provide clean water to 9.3 million people by protecting the basin of the country’s longest river. The Nature Conservancy, a...
The City of Johannesburg is implementing long-term and sustainable transport by implementing changes to the transport patterns in Sandton. The main focus is on efficient public transport with bicycle and pedestrian lanes being introduced. The City...
Soil provides nutrients, water and minerals to plants and trees, stores carbon and is home to billions of insects, small animals, bacteria and many other micro-organisms. Yet the amount of fertile soil on the planet has been diminishing at an...
Kenya is now the 7th highest producer of geothermal power as it unveiled the biggest geothermal plant in the world which added an extra 280MW to the national grid. Immediately after the commissioning, by Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President’s...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) approved an African Development Fund (ADF) Loan of US $144.9 million, to the Kenya–Tanzania Power Interconnection Project. The project will allow the two countries to exchange...
