Category: Transports

MERIDIAN PORT SERVICES (MPS) BOOSTS ITS CAPACITY WITH 15 NEW GANTRIES

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On Tuesday, 18 January 2022, Meridian Port Services (MPS) signed a purchase agreement with Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited (ZPMC) for the acquisition of 15 new gantry cranes, including 3 STS cranes and 12 eRTG cranes. This USD 53.31 million investment will enhance the capacity … Click on the following link to read more : https://maritimafrica.com/en/meridian-port-services-mps-boosts-its-capacity-with-15-new-gantries/

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EVENT : MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR THE FIFTH AFRICA BUSINESS FORUM – 2022

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“Investing in multimodal transport infrastructure to optimize the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area: a focus on air transport and tourism”, is the theme of the fifth Africa Business Forum will be held on 7 February 2022, on the margins of the thirty-fifth ordinary session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government. This year, discussions will focus on the implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) for the air transport and tourism industries, related new market developments, technological advancements, and the huge…

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SOUTH AFRICA : MYCITI SERVICE RECORDS 19% INCREASE IN PASSENGER TRIPS

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Life in Cape Town is slowly returning to normal. The number of passenger trips recorded on the MyCiTi bus service for the last quarter of 2021 has increased with over 19% when compared with the same period in 2020 when South Africa faced harsh lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 2 843 153 passenger trips were recorded on the MyCiTi bus service from 1 October 2020 to 31 December 2020 when South Africa was in the midst of the second wave of Covid-19. This number increased to…

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AFRICAN AIRLINES’ PERFORMANCE UPDATES BY AFRAA – JANUARY 2022

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The number of people infected by the Omicron Covid variant continues to increase. This has unfortunately resulted in some countries putting in place panic measures against international travel.  Globally, the number of cases has reached 350 million and 10.7 million in Africa. Stringent travel advisories, insistence on full vaccination before travel, forceful vaccination at ports of arrival, repatriation of passengers not meeting entry travel requirements and quarantine of passengers at their own costs are some of the unorthodox measures being enforced by some governments. In fact, in one African country…

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THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT WITNESSES THE SIGNING OF A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE RAILWAY AUTHORITY AND ALMAVIVA S.A. WITH ME . I (ITALIAN) SPECIALIZED IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

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The Minister of Transport witnesses the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Egyptian National Railways (ENR) represented by Trans-IT Company and Almaviva S.B.A Company (Italian) specialized in the field of transportation systems to cooperate in technological projects that serve Egyptian National Railways and passenger transportation systems. Lieutenant-General Engineer / Kamel Al-Wazir – Minister of Transport witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in technological projects that serve the Egyptian National Railways and passenger transportation systems, between the Egyptian National Railways represented by Trans IT Company, the…

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THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT ANNOUNCES THE ENTRY OF MINYA AL-QAMH MAIN SIGNAL TOWER AND KOM HELIN SECONDARY SIGNAL TOWER INTO SERVICE

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According to the political leadership’s directives to complete the development and modernization projects of railway signaling systems to increase the safety and security factors of the lines The Minister of Transport announces the entry of Minya al-Qamh main signal tower and Kom Helin secondary signal tower into service, as part of the project to develop signaling systems on Benha / Zagazig / Ismailia / Port Said — Zagazig / Abu Kabir lines. According to the political leadership’s directives of the Egyptian government represented by the Ministry of Transport with the…

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SHIPPERS’ AUTHORITY EYES BOOST IN TRANSIT TRADE AS IT SHELTERS TRUCK DRIVERS

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The perineal transit truck congestion at the Elubo border and the haphazard parking of cargo trucks in the Jomoro Municipal Assembly has become a thing of the past with the construction of the Elubo Freight Park. The project which was initiated and funded by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) with support from the Jomoro Municipal Assembly was commissioned on Friday, January 28, 2022. The ultra-modern facility aims to make the nation’s western transit corridor attractive to businesses and individuals who haul goods between Ghana and La Cote d’Ivoire and beyond…

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CILT GHANA TO SUPPORT NEW TRANSAID DRIVER TRAINING PROJECT

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Transaid has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Ghana, aimed at promoting mutual cooperation in the area of road safety. The agreement follows less than a year after Transaid began developing a professional driver training programme in the country’s capital, Accra; its first project of this kind to be launched in West Africa. With funding secured from Puma Energy Foundation, Transaid has set out to raise training standards and expand training capacity for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers. The MOU was…

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OPIBUS INTRODUCES THE FIRST-EVER ELECTRIC BUS DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED IN AFRICA

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Opibus has just introduced the first all-electric bus in Kenya as well as the first African designed electric bus ever. This is the first major step in the company’s vision to provide a locally designed and developed electric bus that can be mass-produced for the pan-African market, by the end of 2023. This is a step towards realizing Opibus goal of electrifying Africa’s public transport system, deploying products tailored for the local use case. The bus is designed and developed in-house with local engineering talent, while at the same time…

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COVID 19: REOPENING OF MOROCCO’S AIRSPACE FROM FEB. 7

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The government announced Thursday the reopening of the airspace to flights to and from Morocco as of February 7, 2022. This decision comes in accordance with the legal provisions relating to the management of the state of health emergency and following the recommendations of the scientific and technical commission and taking into consideration the evolution of the epidemiological situation in the Kingdom, said the government in a statement. To accompany the implementation of this decision, a technical committee is currently examining the measures to be adopted at border crossings and…

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