January, 2023 - Logistafrica.com

Uganda : Parliament to debate ways of curbing road accidents

January 8, 2023January 8, 2023 logistafrica

Legislators will hold a comprehensive debate on how to curb the increasing road accidents which have claimed many lives. In a sitting of the House on Friday, 06 January 2023, the Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa directed the Minister for Works and Transport to present a statement on the road accidents and what the enforcing agencies are doing to curb the carnage. Tayebwa cited the many accidents over the festive season which claimed many lives. Some of the people killed in the accidents included, the former Member of Parliament for Serere…

SENEGAL-TRANSPORT BRT: The first bus presented in April (Minister)

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 logistafrica

The Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Accessibility, Mansour Faye, announced on Thursday that the first BRT (Bus rapid transit) bus will be presented to the public in April. ”The works of the BRT are following their course, sections are released (…) in March, all the systems and circuits will be released (….). The first bus will be presented, God willing, in April. Trials will follow. Operation will start in the last quarter of 2023,” he said. He was speaking, in Diamniadio, on the sidelines of the launch of the third phase…

Senegal: Ceremony to hand over the keys of a batch of 300 collective cabs for local urban transport by the Executive Council of Sustainable Urban Transport (CETUD)

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 logistafrica

Logistafrica – CETUD proceeded this Thursday, January 5, 2023 to the handing over of keys of a batch of 300 collective cabs for urban transport of proximity, in the presence of the Minister of Infrastructure, Land Transport and Opening up, Mr. Mansour Faye. “The State began since 2005 and in 2016 with the pilot cabs. In 2019, a second phase with the vehicles and today the 300 cabs that we have just handed over the keys. This phase is the result of a private initiative supervised by the state services,…

Côte d’Ivoire-Transport: Following a fatal road accident involving two buses in Yamoussoukro, Minister Amadou Kone shows solidarity with the victims

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 logistafrica

The provisional toll is 14 dead, several injured and significant material damage ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, January 6, 2023/APO Group/ -Following a fatal road accident involving two buses in Yamoussoukro on Thursday, January 5, 2023, around 11 a.m., the Minister of Transport, Amadou Koné, expressed in a press release the Government’s sincere condolences to the relatives of the deceased victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured. The Minister of Transport once again called on motorists and road users to be more vigilant and to respect the highway code. The…

THE NEW ECTN MANAGEMENT PLATFORM IS UP NOW

January 2, 2023January 2, 2023 logistafrica

As part of the new government reforms, and after the decision of the Council of Ministers on September 29, 2021 regarding the transfer of the management of the ECTN to the Port Authority of Cotonou, we inform all of our customers that the old platform for Electronic Cargo Tracking Note (ECTN), https://www.besc-benin.com, is no longer available. Thus, since January 1st, 2023, all procedures relating to the registration of cargoes are carried out exclusively via the new platform, available at https://ectn.bj. The Port Authority of Cotonou, in order to offer its customers more innovative…

Meet with our Guest Editor Wheymar Reeves

January 1, 2023February 21, 2023 logistafrica

The guest editor of the last issue of LogisT Africa Women Magazine talks about the great moments in her career, the challenges she is facing as a woman working in the transport and logistics sector and how she is dealing with them etc. She also shares with you some tips on how to get by as a woman in the sector and will also answer all your questions live.