Tom Halliwell provides an eye-opening assessment of driver fatigue in the transport industry today. We all know driver fatigue is a problem. When there is an accident out there, the drivers always shift the blame; someone else pushed them off the...
International ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has affirmed its rating for Transnet’s long-term foreign currency at ‘BBB-‘ and ‘BBB+’ for local currency. S&P said it was optimistic that Transnet’s financial...
The economic slowdown in China, the declining demand for mining commodities, dwindling consumer spending power and the drought have all negatively impacted container trade in South Africa, with both import and export markets declining year-on-year...
Bidvest McCarthy (BM) has invested in an Isuzu Trucks dealership strategically sited just off the N4 at Gateway Industrial Park in Pretoria East. BM is extensively involved in freight management, logistics services, terminal operations, and marine...
Investigators have begun analysing the two severely damaged black boxes from EgyptAir flight MS804 as they seek to explain why the plane plunged into the sea, killing all 66 people on board. It would require “lots of time and effort” to...
Arnold Loois (45) has joined Serco in the position of production manager at the truck and trailer body building company’s Cape Town branch. Arnold, who grew up in Kroonstad in the Free State, attended the Marais Viljoen Technical High School in...
The bodies of nineteen Ethiopians who suffocated in the back of a Zambian container truck were discovered earlier this week by authorities in the south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial official said on Saturday. Another 76...
The Trilateral Road Transport agreement between Namibia, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo was recently signed in Lubumbashi. These countries, known as the member states of the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Corridor (WBNLDC),...
The Federation of Clearing and Forwarding Associations of Southern Africa (FCFASA) recently hosted a capacity building workshop in Mauritius. The theme of the workshop was on improving trade across the borders while most of the discussions...
