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Jacobs Transport’s young, compliant fleet shifts to bigger business premises Jacobs Transport’s Lee-Ann Courvoisier and Billy Meysel talk to Creamer Media at this year’s Electra Mining Africa exhibition. Video & Editing: Creamer Media’s Nicholas Boyd.
Transportation company Jacobs Transport has outgrown its present lawn area and will be redesigning the business’s modus operandi to adhere with service requirement circulation. The company talks with Creamer Media about this, and more, at this year’s Electra Mining Africa exhibit.
Transnet meets with unions again to take another crack at ending crippling strike
Transnet stated it would take another fracture at ending a crippling strike by as it goes back to the settlements under the Commission of Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration on Wednesday. The strike entered a full week on Wednesday, with the United National Transport Union and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union demanding double-digit increases. Satawu said in a declaration on Tuesday that Transnet tabled a new deal of between 4.25% – 5% throughout the board, however that the union would reject the "" so-called revised offer"". Service has actually used to pay Transnet increased charges and an extra strike-avoidance levy to prevent prolonging the commercial action. Business Leadership SA CEO Busi Mavuso said on Monday that "" a number of companies have actually approached Transnet with potential services including willingly providing to pay increased fees for Transnet services."".
DHL launches new airport logistics facility DHL launches new airport logistics facility
Logistics services multinational DHL Global Forwarding has opened a new facility next to the OR Tambo International Airport that will enable it to provide services for high-value goods and time- and temperature-sensitive products.
TMI makes $21-a-share offer for all Grindrod Shipping ordinary shares
Ship management business Taylor Maritime Investments (TMI) and its subsidiary Good Falkirk have entered into a deal implementation agreement with JSE-listed maritime transport services company Grindrod Shipping for a voluntary conditional money offer for all of the provided common shares in Grindrod Shipping. Grindrod Shipping shareholders will be entitled to receive the offer price of $21 in cash for each share tendered in the deal.
Shippeo appoints Philippe Van Hove as Chief Revenue Officer
Van Hove to scale Shippeo’s worldwide operations.
IntelliTrans President Speaks on Economic Uncertainty at Transload Distribution Association of NA
Attendees at TDANA Learn How to Survive and Thrive When Supply Chain Disruptions Occur
FAA invests $31 million in airport cargo projects
Grants to expand cargo facilities nationwide will help reinforce supply chains, transport department states.
Partnership formed to grow Gauteng on the Move
The Gauteng Transport Authority (GTA) is partnering with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to widen its ability to gather data on the public transportation sector in Gauteng. This forms part of the authority’s endeavour to enhance the use of public transportation, along with the quality thereof, and to grow the general public transport market.
Almost 30 vessels stuck as 90% of workers on strike at some Transnet harbours
Transnet harbours– apart from East London – have been hit by mass stay-aways as a strike intensifies. Some 28 vessels were in limbo beyond Transnet terminals or waiting to be offered a dock on Monday. The Richards Bay terminal had manning levels (the number of people required for work) of 8% with 17 vessels outdoors and 13 vessels on the berth, the transportation energy said in a note to port customers, which News24 Business has seen. While Cape Town’s multi-purpose terminal had 13% manning levels, there were no vessels outside on Monday and 5 fishing vessels were berthing. In the note, Transnet general manager for commercial and planning Michelle Van Buren Schele stated due to the continuous strike at its operations, the terminals would trigger company continuity prepares to soften the blow of reduced manning levels.
PRASA a ‘total rebuild’, not a recovery process – strategy GM
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is being totally rebuilt, says PRASA strategy GM Anna-Marie Lubbe. “We are hard at work rebuilding PRASA. It is not a recovery, it is not a rehabilitation [process] – it is a total rebuild.”
Transnet discusses contingency plans with deciduous fruit industry
State-owned Transnet Port Terminals’ leadership in the Western Cape met deciduous fruit industry organisations, consisting of Berries SA, Hortgro and the National Agricultural Marketing Council, on October 11 to go over contingency prepare for the export of deciduous fruit from the Port of Cape Town offered the existing commercial action throughout Transnet’s operations. "" The deciduous fruit season is expected to totally start at the end of October. Transnet is working carefully with market to ensure that the disposable items, together with other freight with a minimal shelf-life, are prioritised at the ports. A joint integrated planning group with market will likewise be developed to reduce any additional delays," " the port agency states.
NMFTA Opens Free Cybersecurity to Entire Trucking Industry
Conference is set for November 13-15 at the Westin in Old Alexandria. Registration is offered at the conference’s web site, which is www.nmfta.org/digital-solutions-conference-cybersecurity/
GEODIS completes acquisition of Need It Now Delivers
GEODIS, a world leader in transportation and logistics, today & revealed it has actually finished its acquisition of American company Need It Now Delivers following regulatory approvals.
Uncommon Goods Has Doubled its Distribution Volume in 2022 with ITS Logistics
With ITS, Uncommon Goods can now distribute to 90% of the U.S. within two days
Sanral fixing potholes in Matjhabeng ahead of the festive season
The State-owned South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has partnered with the Matjhabeng town in Welkom, in the Free State, to fix pits. This forms part of efforts to partner with provincial and regional governments throughout the country to repair all roads and enhance the safety of roadway users.
Court orders govt to draft action plan to stop Intercape attacks
A judgment bied far by the Makhanda High Court on Friday [October 7] found that Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula and his Eastern Cape counterpart have failed to fulfil their legal responsibility with regards to stopping the attacks on long-distance coach business Intercape. Intercape turned to the courts after it “repeatedly requested” federal government to intervene and stop the ongoing attacks on the bus service by taxi associations.
FlySafair to greatly expand its regional network
South Africa low-cost carrier FlySfair announced on Monday that the South African Air Services Licensing Council (ASLC) had approved the airline’s applications to operate flights to ten new destinations across Southern Africa. It already operates a twice-weekly service between South Africa and Mauritius, as well as domestic flights between Johannesburg (from and to both OR Tambo International Airport and Lanseria International Airport), Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, East London, George, and Port Elizabeth. The carrier has been authorised to operate flights between South Africa’s two main air transport hubs (Johannesburg and Cape Town) and Gaborone (in Botswana), Livingstone and Lusaka (both in Zambia), Luanda (Angola), Maputo (Mozambique) and Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe). It has also received approval to implement services between Johannesburg and Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Nairobi (Kenya) and the Seychelles, and between Cape Town and Windhoek (Namibia).
IATA welcomes ICAO decision on net-zero carbon emissions aviation by 2050
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warmly welcomed the decision, on Friday, of the 41st Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to adopt the target of net-zero carbon emissions for civil aviation by 2050 as a ‘long-term aspirational goal’ (LTAG). IATA is the global representative body for the airline industry while ICAO is an intergovernmental entity and a specialist agency of the United Nations. IATA noted that the ICAO Assembly decision aligned …
Global air cargo demand resilient in August, reports IATA
Global air cargo demand in August this year showed that the sector remained resilient, despite economic uncertainties, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. (IATA is the representative body of the global airline industry.) Global air cargo demand in August was down 8.3% in year-on-year (y-on-y) terms, but this was a small improvement on the y-on-y decline of 9.7% recorded in July. Regarding international air cargo demand in August, this was down 9.3%, y-on-y. Total air cargo capacity in August was up by 6.3%, y-on-y, with international air cargo capacity increasing by 6.1%. In July the y-on-y increase in total air cargo capacity had been much less, at 3.6%.
Fibre sensing technology offers improved security for myriad of industries
Digital worth chain options provider Tech4IR is aiming to utilize the flexibility of its fibre sensing security application, to construct a footprint of this innovation in South Africa, and supply a security service to a large spectrum of industries that are plagued by criminal activity. Talking To Engineering News, CEO Andreas Matthee discusses that Tech4IR focuses on monitoring, measurement, detection and developing informative information that will benefit consumers.