Africa Cargo South Africa Transportation 
The Logistics of Logistics
JUNE 21, 2023
He began his career in the South African Air Force and later spent more than a decade with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), where he held various leadership positions in South Africa, Spain, and the United States, including President of Cargo Network Services Corp., cargo subsidiary.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 19, 2024
In the past weeks, ocean freight rates have risen as much as $10,000 per 40-foot container, as container ships seeking to avoid the attacks embarked on long detours around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, diverting more than $200 billion of cargo away from the critical trade artery. Global trade declined by 1.3
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Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 15, 2024
Over 7,000 miles away, vessels that move containers through Egypt’s Suez Canal are waiting for naval escorts or avoiding the passage altogether to take a much longer voyage around South Africa. Cargo volumes through the Suez and Panama canals have plunged by more than a third. Patrick’s Day, and say Sláinte!
BlueYonder
AUGUST 6, 2013
President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa in early July had many media outlets lamenting about the U.S. being late in recognizing the trade potential with Africa, and that the States had ceded the trade supremacy to China. Secondly, logistics infrastructure in Africa is terribly inefficient.
Resilinc
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Following the recent attacks launched by Yemen’s Houthi group on cargo ships in the Bab al Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, several major global shipping and oil companies – including Maersk and British Petroleum (BP) – have suspended shipments and halted operations in the area. Will suspend shipments.
Freightos
APRIL 24, 2016
Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Significance.
GlobalTranz
APRIL 26, 2016
As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Significance.
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