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Warehouse 2020: adapting to e-commerce growth
Warehouse 2020: adapting to e-commerce growth
Warehouses are changing at an unprecedented rate due to the growth in e-commerce. How are warehouses responding? read

INNOVATION MONTH
#InnovationMonth: Carpooling for trees
#InnovationMonth: Carpooling for trees

Cari Van Wyk

Transport Month in October will see SA's fourth Carpool Week taking place from 3-9 October. Last year it was 'Carpool Karaoke', this year everyone will be carpooling for trees... read
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Aviation
Shirley Duma
Women in Logistics: harnessing opportunity to drive sustainable growth

Shirley Duma

In recent years, several major studies have demonstrated that having more female leaders, board members, managers, and supervisors leads to better business outcomes including... read
Fleet Management
Tyre levy postponed to 2017
Tyre levy postponed to 2017
National Treasury has postponed to 2017 the implementation date of the environmental tyre levy that was meant to come into effect in October 2016... read
Public Transport
Big Data to spur more efficient, more reliable public transport
Big Data to spur more efficient, more reliable public transport

Harry van Huyssteen

South Africa is battling some unique challenges in the field of public transport: the legacies of historical urban planning programmes, complex inter-relationships of formal and informal travel systems... read
Shipping
Oceanwide Logistics opens in South Africa - expanding company's growing global network
Oceanwide Logistics opens in South Africa - expanding company's growing global network
Comprehensive sea/air/land freight and logistics solutions offered across South Africa from Durban headquarters... read
Transport
Court ends Sanral toll plans in Cape
Court ends Sanral toll plans in Cape

Bekezela Phakathi

A Supreme Court of Appeal ruling which invalidated the Sanral's plans to toll the N1 and N2 in the Western Cape, has added to the agency's tolling woes... read
International
, Neil Wood
Hyperloop pushes dream of low-cost futuristic transport
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but developers insist their dream of passengers seated in pods shooting through a tube above the ground will become a reality by 2020 - and change travel as we know it... read
Amsterdam to pilot world's first 'self-drive' boats
Amsterdam to pilot world's first 'self-drive' boats
Amsterdam's iconic canals may soon see the world's first driverless boats, doing everything from moving people and goods to providing "pop-up" bridges and cleaning up... read
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Africa
- Dar es Salaam port terminal
Rwanda agents happy as Dar shipping lines waive container deposit fees
Maersk and Safmarine shipping lines recently agreed to give a waiver on container cash deposit to members of the Rwanda Freight Forwarders Association to reduce the cost of doing business... read
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Business
#GartnerSYM: Turning digital threat into opportunity
#GartnerSYM: Turning digital threat into opportunity

Lauren Hartzenberg

Digital transformation... not just a business buzzword, but a modern business reality... read
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