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Five Logistics Challenges Still Limiting Kenyan Exports Under AfCFTA

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is widely regarded as one of the continent's most ambitious economic integration initiatives, creating access to a market of more than 1.4...

How Ghana’s Tema Integrated Industrial Park Could Reshape West African Trade

On 30 June 2026, President John Dramani Mahama cut the sod for the Tema Integrated Industrial Park (TIIP),...

LAPSSET Corridor: How East Africa’s Mega Infrastructure Project Is Reshaping Regional Trade and Logistics

Stretching from Kenya's Indian Ocean coast into Ethiopia and South Sudan, the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor...

Senegal Unveils New Maritime and Logistics Development Priorities in Bid to Become West Africa’s Leading Trade Hub

DAKAR, Senegal — July 16, 2026 — Senegal has set out an ambitious new vision for its maritime...

Lamu Port Set to Become East Africa’s Next Maritime Hub as Global Investors Show Interest

For much of the past decade, Lamu Port was Kenya's most conspicuous infrastructure gamble — a $480 million...

LAPSSET Corridor: How East Africa’s Mega Infrastructure Project Is Reshaping Regional Trade and Logistics

Stretching from Kenya's Indian Ocean coast into Ethiopia and South Sudan, the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor is...

Senegal Unveils New Maritime and Logistics Development Priorities in Bid to Become West Africa’s...

DAKAR, Senegal — July 16, 2026 — Senegal has set out an ambitious new vision for its maritime and...

Lamu Port Set to Become East Africa’s Next Maritime Hub as Global Investors Show...

For much of the past decade, Lamu Port was Kenya's most conspicuous infrastructure gamble — a $480 million deep-water...

South Africa’s Private Rail Operators Go Live: What the First Open-Access Corridors Mean for...

After more than three decades of running freight rail as a state monopoly, South Africa is about to watch...

Why Truckload Rates Are Rising Across North America

For most of 2023 and 2024, shippers moving freight across the United States and Canada held the upper hand. Trucking...

AI Boom Keeps Air Cargo Capacity Tight — What It Means for Africa

Artificial intelligence has quietly become the most powerful force in global air freight. What began as a niche flow of...

Why CMA CGM’s $1.4 Billion FedEx Supply Chain Deal Could Reshape Global Logistics

Oslo,July 3, 2026: Container shipping giant CMA CGM Group has confirmed a deal to acquire FedEx Supply Chain, the...

Mozambique’s First Port Community System: A Turning Point for African Trade

Mozambique has taken a significant step toward modernizing its maritime sector with the introduction of its first Port Community...

How Port Community Systems Are Transforming African Ports

A container ship idling outside a breakwater burns time and money in equal measure, but the more common bottleneck...

Inside Cameroon’s Rail Upgrade Strategy: Modernising the Douala–Ngaoundéré Line

  When the Trans-Cameroon Railway reached Ngaoundéré in 1987, completing a 667-kilometre mainline from Yaoundé, it did more than connect...

Traxtion Secures $86 Million Equity Investment to Accelerate Rail Expansion in Southern Africa

Rail-focused logistics operator Traxtion has secured an $86 million equity investment in a major capital raise that brings together...

AIRN vs the Road: Can Rail Finally Steal Africa’s Freight Market?

Africa moves on trucks. It has for more than half a century. From the copper belt of Zambia to the...

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