The Supply Chain Lab

The case for supply chain visibility in Africa

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

$4 billion – The construction of the $4 billion Chinese-funded electric railway, linking Ethiopia’s capital along its main trading route

$100m – Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) is steaming ahead with its $100m tug building contract. The company recently launched