Mirroring a growing trend worldwide of retailers ‘owning’ the last mile of their home delivery capabilities, retail giant the Shoprite Group has entered into a joint venture with its existing Checkers Sixty60 logistics partner, the RTT Group, in which both parties...
The impact of vaccination rates will play a significant role in projected global economic growth in 2022, with predictions that it will slow to 4.3% from 5.7% this year on the back of a downward trend in the post-pandemic rebound. Developing markets in sub-Saharan...
The African Union (AU) has added its voice to calls for the lifting of travel bans on southern African countries, most notably South Africa, following the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. In a statement on Tuesday, the AU highlighted that the travel bans...
With schedule reliability edging up slightly – but still well below acceptable norms – some analysts have said that for shippers price is sometimes secondary to the predictability of getting the product to market. All the more reason for carriers to focus on...
BY WANDILE SIHLOBO | SEP 12, 2021 | AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE Logistics has always been the backbone of SA’s export-orientated agricultural sector, though it does not always get the level of attention it has received recently due to various...
After dropping from 50 to 43 points in the third quarter, the Business Confidence Index (BCI), compiled by Rand Merchant Bank and Bureau for Economic Research (BER), has remained unchanged in the fourth quarter of this year. The BER points out that there are a variety...
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