As the above video shows, a major issue for cross-border transporters are delays and congestion at the border posts. The below table, provided to us by Globaltrack, reveals the average waiting times, in hours, for road transporters for the past...
BPW Axles has acquired a majority stake in national trailer parts and accessories distributor, the JMR Trailer Parts Group. According to BPW, the objective of the acquisition is to create supply chain synergies and efficiencies between the two...
Fuel prices are set for a sharp jump at the beginning of June, with the potential of further rises in the medium term. This is according to the Automobile Association (AA) which was commenting on unaudited month-end data supplied by the Central...
The road freight industry has experienced ten months of contract declines, on a three-month moving average. It is not as bad as the situation in 2008/09, but it’s extremely bad for Transnet. Addressing members of the road freight industry at...
Hiroaki Sugawara is the new CEO of Isuzu Truck South Africa, replacing Hiroshi Nishizaka who will be taking up a position within the company in Australia. Sugawara has worked for the Isuzu Motors Corporation for 35 years and has specialised...
African airlines carry just 18% of all inbound and outbound air traffic on the continent. Tristan Wiggill asked Abel Alemu, regional manager for Southern Africa at Ethiopian Airlines, what African carriers can do to change this. “African...
Labour Minister Mildred Olifant has handed over a report on the Tongaat Mall collapse to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). The mall collapsed on 19 November 2013, killing two people and seriously injuring 29 more. The slab collapse was...
CEO of the Road Freight Association (RFA), Sharmini Naidoo, succinctly described the challenges faced by the road transport sector this week. Opening the association’s annual convention at the Legend Golf & Safari Resort in Limpopo, she said...
Road Freight Association (RFA) chairman, Nico van der Westhuizen, has reiterated the need for the private sector to work closely with government, for the betterment of the road freight industry as a whole. Providing the introduction and welcome...
