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Mungo Park Mungo Park, president of leading Southern African supply chain and operations management association Sapics, shares his insights on supply chain trends in 2018, and offers advice to organisations seeking to unlock value in their supply chains and rise to the challenges in the year ahead.read |
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![#BizTrends2018: Mobile means more e-commerce opportunity than ever before](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423521-120x120.jpg?1) | Mark Mahoney The proliferation of mobile phone networks in Asia-Pacific and Africa has transformed how people connect, communicate and shop... read | |
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![Will logistics' freight services see headway soon?](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423817-120x120.jpg?2) | Mengisteab Teshome To deal with challenges in the logistics freight services, a national logistics strategy is being drafted while Ethio-Djibouti railway is considered to significantly abate hurdles in the sector... read |
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![How Africa can negotiate an effective continental free trade area agreement](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/423973-120x120.jpg?2) | Calestous Juma African countries are forging ahead to complete negotiations for a continental free trade area between 55 countries by early next year... read |
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![Test run for Metrobus in Maputo](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423524-120x120.jpg?2) | The combined road and rail scheme for the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area, known as the Metrobus, undertook its first, experimental journey on Monday, reports the independent television station STV... read |
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![Sanral makes travelling easier for tag holders](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423798-120x120.jpg?2) | The South African Roads Agency (Sanral) has released a list of conventional toll plazas where tags are accepted for electronic payment... read |
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![Role of shipping in Nigeria's economic revival strategy](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423678-120x120.jpg?2) | Sulaimon Salau Nigeria's shipping history will forever make reference to how foreign ship owners made record profits in demurrage charges from country during the 1970s and port congestion that trailed massive importation of post-civil war reconstruction materials into the nation... read |
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![Africa's first digital free trade area for rollout in 2018](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423878-120x120.jpg?2) | Julius Barigaba Businesses within the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) could save up to $450 million in clearance documentation once the bloc adopts blockchain technology... read |
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![Still using BBM? You can now request an Uber via platform](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423512-120x120.jpg?2) | Hadlee Simons BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) has seen far better days in emerging markets, as WhatsApp usurps it as the favoured instant messaging platform... read |
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![Grade 9 learner develops device to prevent road accidents](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423377-120x120.jpg?2) | Samirah Kaka, a grade 9 learner from North West set about developing an innovative device to prevent accidents... read |
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![Photo by Zachary Staines on Unsplash](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424166-120x120.jpg?2) | Christopher Pettit Beyond the benefits of dockless bike sharing for people's mobility and health, these services are producing an ever more useful byproduct: journey data... read |
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![Ryanair applies for UK licence ahead of Brexit](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424061-120x120.jpg?2) | Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair said on Tuesday it has applied for a British operating licence in case Britain leaves the European Union next year without an aviation deal... read |
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![Hyundai shipbuilding stocks plunge on grim earnings forecast](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423854-120x120.jpg?2) | Shares in Hyundai Heavy Industries plunged by nearly a third on Wednesday after the world's largest shipbuilder by sales announced a plan to issue new stocks in a bid to shore up its ailing finances... read |
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