The Supply Chain Lab

Figuring it out: Africa supply chain in review

$14.2 billion – Tanzania is building an electric rail at half the price of Kenya’s diesel Standard Gauge Railway (SGR)

12 – Roads are becoming more deadly in developing countries. All 12 of the countries that saw the biggest percentage

Selecting a pizza delivery company in our house is a straight forward business. There is only one criteria; the delivery

The “uber-nisation” of last-mile delivery in Africa is taking shape. Customer-centric mobile apps or messaging services, low cost delivery (e.g.

The reality of driverless trucks, appears to be closer than Marty Mcfly’s flying cars in the Back to the Future

$49.4 million – Kenyan Airways has halved its pretax loss to 5 billion shillings ($49.4 million) over the past six

Kenyan startup Olivine Technology, founded in January 2010, is a software company that specialises in designing and developing automated sales

Rwanda has launched a drone delivery network to transport blood supplies to rural areas in the country. Drone deliveries will initially focus

$2.2 billion – General Electric (GE) has expressed interest in acquiring a Nigeria railway concession project worth around $2 billion.

1.7% – World trade will expand by just 1.7%, in the the latest WTO (World Trade Organisation) quarterly estimate. The