For years, road hauliers and railroads have competed for the same business. Inefficiencies, high costs and high demands dictate re-evaluation of the synergies. Moving freight from road to rail and from rail to road has never been easier or more...
By Martin Vergunst, business solutions executive at T-Systems South Africa Cloud computing, mobility, Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) are converging to create unprecedented opportunities for logistics operators to better manage their...
A commercial deep-water port will be built in Angola’s Porto Amboim in the Kwanza Sul province. It will be built in three phases between 2017 and 2024 and will be located in the Torre-do-Tombo area, on the outskirts of the city, in an area...
The Driver Information Bureau (DIB) recently completed a study on a fleet of 200 drivers. The DIB wanted to figure out which drivers were causing unnecessary costs in a long haul fleet and put a cost to everything it could, including what a...
Maersk Line will reduce its network capacity and postpone investments in new capacity, while the same time reducing operating costs by escalating already announced plans to simplify the organisation. This is according to a press release issued by...
New, out of the box thinking is needed by South African ports to accommodate larger vessels. This is according to Ton Bestenbreur, independent ports operations and logistics consultant at the university of Stellenbosch. Bestenbreur was speaking at...
A historic housing project was launched, by the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Human Settlements Bonginkosi Madikizela in Mount Pleasant, in the Overstrand Municipality this week. This development involves two sites (Cemetery Site and...
SP submersible pumps are often used in irrigation applications, and are the perfect choice in areas prone to flooding which would otherwise damage beyond repair dry-installed pumps. Deep-well submersible pumps are most often multi-stage pump types....
In order to save water, the City of Cape Town is reusing over 6% of the effluent that passes through its treatment works, for irrigation and industrial purposes. The amount of effluent the City has been able to reuse has exceeded expectations for...
