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Unforeseen Contingencies: How We Helped CS Matiang’i Deliver 2016 KCSE
The Education CS, Dr. Fred Matiang’i revealed on Thursday, 26th December that only 141 students out of the registered 574,125 students that sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE 2016) made straight A's. Announcing this at Shimo La Tewa High School...
Walking A Tight Robe: Logistics Challenges In Africa
Trading in Africa has plenty of challenges left, right and center. Management trend flows of goods and services between origin point and consumption point to meet the needs of corporations, customers and consumers; particularly items like energy, petroleum, equipment,...
Holiday and Logistics: A Hard Nut To Crack
2016 is about to accomplish. New Year will come with new opportunities and targets to achieve. Distribution centres, retailers and manufacturers are busy preparing themselves for the holiday season with top notch best holiday logistics practices on their brain....
A Port In Peril: Why You Should Be Vexed ‘Bigly
According to the Monthly Port Community Charter Report of March 2016, indicated that the time cargo is offloaded from the vessel at the port to the time it's cleared has slightly improved from 106 hours to 103 hours in the month of February to March 2016 in that...
Iko Wapi Mizigo Yangu?: Doing Logistics In East Africa
If you often watch Churchill Show on Sundays or on YouTube, you'll hear 'Professor' Hamo mention during his gig; "Njoni kwangu, ninyi nyote msumbukaona wenye kulemewa na mizigo, nami nitawapumzisha." We in the logistic industry holistically approve this message....
Traffic, Travel Restrictions and Tusks: A Weekend in Review
As you likely have already heard, this week was off to a questionable start with a traffic jam that will surely go down in the annals of Kenyan history. A truck traveling the Nairobi-Mombasa highway was the beginning of our misfortune, as its head found a way to...
Social Supply Chains versus Traditional Supply Chains
Skeptics have waited for the fuss over social media to fade away but instead, social media continues to thrive with continuous improvements and innovations. Guess who else needs to embrace to dynamics of these changes? You guessed right, the logistics sector. People’s...
Positive Changes at Last? A New Hope for Business in Kenya
About mid way through March, most of us read with horror the results on corruption as far as government contracts are concerned. The National Ethics and Corruption Survey 2015 conducted by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission revealed that should you wish to...
Will Science and Engineering Be Africa’s Redemption?
During the recently concluded first ever Next Einstein Forum- a gathering of some of the best entrepreneurs, scientists and lawmakers Africa has to offer- Rwandan President Paul Kagame made it clear that an emphasis on math and the sciences would be one of Africa’s...