Regulars
Regulars
FOcus on transport and Logistics
Our regular columns and sections are all contributions from leading industry figures.
Uber Freight and SAP join forces
Uber Freight, the Uber business unit that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies, has joined forces with SAP – and their collaboration is set...
Ford Trucks tackles Europe
Ford Trucks is tangibly demonstrating its intention to conquer the lucrative European truck market with a European tour for the F-Max, the 2019 International...
MAN wins design awards
MAN Truck & Bus has received not one, but two sought-after iF Design Awards. The first accolade, the iF Design Award 2019 in the...
Advice for Bombardier
I think it’s a great idea for major suppliers of public transport equipment to express opinions on how to improve the industry, but a...
Why micromanagement is a transporter’s friend
Operating a commercial vehicle in South Africa has become a tough business with continual rising costs and lower profit margins To minimise...
Free trade and flourishing economies?
A continent-wide free trade area for Africa can only be a good thing – if the governments of the continent can focus on the...
Barriers to transport and trade
The road-freight industry faces a continual barrage of new charges and regulations, while there is minimal assistance in removing the many obstacles to efficiency...
Fortune favours the bold
This is the 85th column I’ve written for FOCUS since I became the publication’s assistant editor back in May 2012 – and not for...
Bauma 2019: just brilliant!
Bauma 2019 smashed all its records – from the number of visitors to the floor space occupied. I braved the crowds (and, believe me,...
Innovation this, innovation that
“There’s no need to reinvent the wheel,” some are often heard saying. In transport, though, the only wheels that don’t need (too much) reinventing...
Have we learnt anything since 2015?
How did we allow Eskom, SAA and e-tolls to get us into such a mess? We are all partly to blame for our failure...
Risk management in supply chain
The landscape for managing risk has changed. Following the 2008 financial crisis, people no longer have the same amount of trust in companies Being...
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