Engen to shut refinery and repurpose KZN site as an import terminal
South African petroleum products group Engen announced on Friday that it would shut the Engen Refinery and convert the site, located south of Durban, into an import terminal and product storage facility by the end of 2023. Engen said the refinery-to-terminal (RTT) repurposing initiative was based on a strategic evaluation, which confirmed the refinery was […]
TSI Spotlight On: Demurrage and Detention
Update: What is detention and demurrage? This is the most confusing for most importers and exporters, Demurrage is what you pay when you don’t collect your container on time out of a port. Mostly because your clearing and forwarding agent hasn’t received the clearance documents or the transporter/haulier has not collected it on time, so […]
E-commerce Expansion Causes Rapid Growth in the Courier Industry
Have you shopped online in the past 6 months? We are guessing that the answer to that question in this day and age is yes, and if you haven’t personally then someone in your family probably has bought something online. While shopping online was gaining popularity before the pandemic, this only helped to accelerate its […]
Top 5 Supply Chain Security Concerns and Best Practices to Address Them
The average cost of a data breach is nearly $4 million, so companies need to protect their supply chains with security comprised of a combination of layered defenses. A recent report showed us that the 2020 threat landscape was largely shaped by the pandemic. As businesses raced to transition to cloud environments to keep their businesses’ […]
Preparing Your Data for AI, Blockchain, and other Emerging Technologies
One of the biggest mistakes companies often make is chasing after the next, new shiny technology application without first clearly defining the business problem or opportunity they’re looking to address — and without first getting their data in order. Why do companies still struggle with data quality management? How do you get over the change […]
How Solid is Your Supply Chain?
With the massive expansion of the supply chain, the risk has also increased due to a greater attack surface. More common threats such as cyber security, are still around and even more sophisticated, and natural disasters have and will always be a threat to the supply chain, but COVID-19 has been one threat that has […]
What We Can Learn from the Ever Given Suez Canal Incident
The news of the cargo ship, Ever Given, blocking the Suez Canal took the focus off COVID-19 for a bit and was certainly a topic of interest around the world, as well as being a focus of many an entertaining meme! While this incident caused a fair bit of trouble, there are also a number […]
Optimising processes is critical to driving continuous improvement in a post-pandemic world
The manufacturing, warehousing and logistics sector has faced a number of challenges as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Those in services that were deemed essential had to cope with increased demand alongside reduced headcount, with short turnaround times. Other services experienced complete shutdowns followed by the need to reopen efficiently, when permitted, to maximise […]
New survey highlights opportunities to future-proof supply chains
According to new research from Orange Business Services, supply chains in 40% of multinational corporations were unable to cope with the crisis created by the pandemic. The report surveyed 320 enterprises, focusing on the manufacturing, transport and logistics sectors, across 18 countries between August and October 2020. The survey, carried out for by independent research […]
A Look at Some KPI’s for the Freight Shipping Industry
We take a look at some of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that are essential in the freight shipping industry. Managing logistics spend efficiently is one of the most important processes for all shippers, and also one that can present the most problems. These KPIs are also useful when it comes to tracking the right […]
What Your Need to Know About the TIR System and Why SA is Being Urged to Take the Lead in Adopting It
You might have heard the term ‘TIR’ being used a little more frequently recently. TIR stands for Transport Internationaux Routiers system and it is a United Nations convention that makes it possible for goods to be shipped from a country of origin, through transit countries, to the destination country. The goods are able to be […]
Four Questions to Determine the Ideal Supply Chain Technology Provider
As we look to 2021, the phrase “prepare for the unknown” has been stuck in my head. Many people over the past few months have used this phrase as a warning, promising that the supply chain world this year will be extremely unpredictable, even when a coronavirus vaccine becomes widely available. This expression could also […]
How Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing E-Commerce Business
Artificial Intelligence is not a futuristic technology anymore. Advanced technologies such as Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence are changing the game. Machine learning helps e-commerce giants secure their crucial data by simplifying it into small chunks. E-commerce has always been an industry disruptor. Technology has become more sophisticated than ever when we talk about Artificial […]
The Supply Chain’s Role in COVID-19 Vaccinations
From toilet paper hoarding and banana bread challenges, 2020 was a year full of weird and wonderful things, to the point where almost nothing could surprise us. We made it through, and here we are at the beginning of 2021, and COVID-19 vaccines are the talk of the town at the moment. This also brings […]
Freight Demand is Booming and Container Lines Take Full Advantage
When looking back at this time last year, we remember how many businesses who were reliant on container shipping were in trouble due to a big surge in cancelled sailings. These cancellations were due to Chinese New Year and the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that we are starting a new year and the world is trying […]
How Modern Technology is Changing the Future ofLogistics Industry, Supply Chains, how they can be Digitized ,
How Modern Technology is Changing the Future of Logistics Industry, Supply Chains, how they can be Digitized
3 ways to calculate co2 emissions in shipping
COVID 19 has marked our time of unprecedented crisis with the global economic shutdown, questioning the way our society operates from an economic and environmental point of view, as daily global CO2 emissions decreased by –17% by early April 2020. But COVID 19 has also allowed us to see how well human beings can adapt to […]
Kazungula bridge project timeline and what you need to know
The Kazungula Bridge project is a multi-national project in the North-South Corridor and is part of an infrastructure improvement programme that covers the whole corridor. The project includes a bridge linking Botswana and Zambia over the Zambezi River to replace the existing ferry, and a one-stop border facility at Kazungula. Project timeline 2015 Botswana and […]
2021 Supply Chain Trends
It’s hard to believe that 2020 is finally over, and we are at the start of a new year which will hopefully be better than the last. While 2020 was tough, it also caused many industries to change the way they do things, including the logistics industry. We’re taking a look at some of the […]
Top Anti-Hijacking Tips for Truck Drivers
The 14,000 teu ONE Apus, which suffered a massive container stack collapse en route to Long Beach last week, today berthed at the Japanese port of Kobe. The line confirmed yesterday that 1,816 boxes had been lost overboard, including 64 dangerous goods (DG) boxes when the vessel encountered heavy weather near Hawaii on 30 November. […]