Mini-Car Made in Egypt: A locally-produced rectangular vehicle for six, made of a solid steel body is cheaper than the widely-used imported auto rickshaw Cairo - Inside his workshop in Kerdasa, a village in the Giza governorate, Ahmed Saeed is working on developing a local alternative to the auto-rickshaws or 'tuk-tuks' that
Year: 2017
EU Lifts Ban On Ghana’s Exports
EU lifts Fish Export Ban On Ghana Accra (DG) - Ghanaian farmers can now resume export of all plant commodities to the European Union (EU) market from 1 January 2018, following the European Commission’s decision on October 31 to lift the current ban on commodities from Ghana. A press release issued by
Passengers, crew unharmed after Airlink plane’s emergency landing at OR Tambo
Airlink Avro RJ85 aeroplane plane flying from Harare to Johannesburg with 38 people on board which was forced to make an emergency landing at OR Tambo International Airport after the plane developed a mechanical fault. Johannesburg (News 24) - Private airline Airlink says all 34 passengers and four crew members were unharmed
Motorists On Mombasa-Nairobi Highway Stuck in Major Traffic Snarl Up
Kenyans stuck in '50km' traffic jam on Nairobi-Mombasa road Nairobi (Daily Nation) - Motorists on Mombasa-Nairobi highway were stranded for more than 18 hours morning after a crane that attempted to recover a lorry that had overturned near Salama shopping centre also overturned. The snarl-up affected all lanes and caused anguish to travellers
Why cargo bike deliveries are taking over the UK’s cities
An Outspoken delivery rider in Cambridge. Photograph: Paul Rogers for the Guardian Eco-friendly cycle logistics firms are popping up across the UK, carrying everything from Amazon packages to takeaway food and bouquets London (The Guardian) - Ben Cartwright is amid a ritual familiar to thousands of delivery workers across the country, carefully
Emirates may order 36-38 Airbus A380 jets as Boeing sees steady Gulf demand, interest in mid-sized jet
Range Rover Velar Now in Sub-Sahara Africa
2018 Range Rover Velar Lagos (Thisday) - The fourth member of the Range Rover family has arrived. The Range Rover Velar brings a new dimension of presence, modernity, and minimalist design to the Range Rover family. Designed to fit between the Range Rover Evoque and Range Rover Sport, the Velar offers
Volume growth slows at Fraport’s airports in October
Cargo Hub In Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport is home to around 250 airlines, freight forwarders, cargo handlers and other logistics service provider. It is a major hub for international transport of mail and parcels, equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology. Besides being a major hub for international cargo shipments, Frankfurt Airport has also developed into a center for courier
DHL Customers prefer root canals to late shipments
In DHL’s 2017 Holiday Survey, 27 percent of the integrator’s customers surveyed said that they would “rather get a root canal than having personal holiday shipments come late,” which suggests that some 27 percent of customers haven’t yet experienced the skull-splitting agony of the dentists’ drill burrowing into their molars. Regardless,
How cargo bikes can help unclog London’s congested roads
Outspoken Delivery already runs cargo bike operations in Cambridge, Glasgow and Norwich. Photograph: Paul Rogers/Commissioned for The Guardian Waltham Forest’s new zero-emissions delivery service aims to replace polluting trucks for local deliveries of food, online purchases and more Each morning Oscar Godoy unlocks a door in a railway arch in north London, organizes