Eugene Goddard
Editor at Freight News
Editor of supply chain & logistics portal Freight News, contributor to Taalgenoot (ATKV quarterly), freelance travel writer (ex-Business Day), & photographer.
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1 week ago |
freightnews.co.za | Eugene Goddard
Transnet has done and is still meeting the necessary requirements to improve machine and personnel performance at the country’s ports, long blamed for holding back South Africa’s export capacity of time-sensitive cargo. Addressing a webinar on ‘Agriculture’ focusing on technologies and infrastructure needed to boost the sector’s shipments, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) chief executive, Jabu Mdaki, said the state-owned logistics utility was taking comfort from consistent progress in key areas.
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1 week ago |
freightnews.co.za | Eugene Goddard
Despite uncertainty among shippers and freight forwarders about direct sailings connecting South African ports with the US East Coast, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has confirmed that it will maintain the weekly rotations. Fears that the Amex Express (Amex) service will become a casualty because of the dissolution of the 2M vessel-sharing service MSC had with Maersk in February, were exacerbated by the perception of conflicting statements in the market.
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1 week ago |
freightnews.co.za | Eugene Goddard
Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has given every indication that last week’s SA-US relationship reset delegation to Washington has done everything it can to dodge the tariff bullet fired by President Donald Trump on April 2. Despite all the noise and drama following Trump’s provocative stunt, when he played an inflammatory video about farm murders in South Africa, Steenhuisen described the trade meeting that was held behind closed doors thereafter as constructive and optimistic.
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2 weeks ago |
freightnews.co.za | Eugene Goddard
Following the clear provocation by a hostile reception during a media briefing in the Oval Office, a visibly tired President Cyril Ramaphosa said South Africa played a bigger regional trade role in the context of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
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2 weeks ago |
freightnews.co.za | Eugene Goddard
Following the clear provocation by a hostile reception during a media briefing in the Oval Office, a visibly tired President Cyril Ramaphosa said South Africa played a bigger regional trade role in the context of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
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N4 SA-Moz border update: the situation at South Africa's #Lebombo Border Post keeps changing because of what's happening at #Ressano Garcia. Stay up to date with the latest #news re #post-election unrest in #Mozambique. @FRELIMO_ @DIRCO_ZA
South Africa’s Lebombo Border Post to the Port of Maputo remains unofficially closed to traffic on the morning of 14 November because of post-election unrest at the Ressano Border Post in Mozambique. #logistics
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