Blogs
Beating the “Monday Blues”: Starting Your Month Off Right
We hate to break it to you but your long Madaraka Day weekend has finally come to a close! We trust your days were spent relaxing and recharging for the new month that marks the halfway point of 2014. As a business owner or logistics manager, we’re sure you have taken...
(Alleged) Incidents: Business Etiquette in a Global Environment
Early last week, a story broke of an alleged altercation between a Kenyan legislator and a senior Chinese official in the restricted baggage hall of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. We use and will continue to emphasize on the ‘alleged’ aspect as accounts of...
Is Somali Blood Green?
Step outside the world of logistics for a brief minute and help us to answer this: Is Somali blood green? Is what runs through Somali veins the bright green of fresh grass or the darker green of well-prepared sukuma wiki? In the wake of recent attacks on Kenyan soil,...
Now Hiring: The Logistics Industry and Unemployment in Kenya
Recent figures put the unemployment rate in Kenya at about 16 million Kenyans lacking formal employment, up from about 12% in 2006. This sad state of affairs has seen the government work towards rectification, with the recent relaunch of Kenya’s ICT sector, projecting...
Paying the Piper: What the Logistics Industry Can Learn from Anglo Leasing
The Anglo Leasing scandal, a dark cloud over Kenya for an unfortunately long time, has reared its ugly head once again, this time in the form of notifications that Kenya is to pay out KES 1.4 billion to companies involved, a ruling that has most Kenyans up in arms. To...
You Get What You Negotiate: Logistics Lessons from Safaricom
Acquiring government tenders in Kenya has become akin to finding the Holy Grail for many entrepreneurs and corporate bodies. The process of getting to this financial Promised Land has become viciously competitive, with firms willing to do almost anything to land...
Cargo Scanning in the Age of Heroin: Logistics & Security
With the recent seizure of a heroin shipment off the Kenyan coast in quantities that simply boggle the mind, the issue of cargo scanning and security has entered the forefront of public discussion, more so in logistics circles. While some of us struggled to grasp the...
The Best Defense is A Good Offense: Inflation & Kenyan Logistics
Even those of us with the most tenuous grasp on financial concepts understand one thing: inflation is bad. The amorphous concept of inflation is associated with our currency losing value while our cost of living steadily increases, a nightmare situation for anyone...
Lessons from a “Brown and Handsome” Police Prosecutor: Alcoholism and Logistics
The 09:00pm news a while back became the best Kenya had to offer in comedy as a Kitui based Police Prosecutor was caught on camera confidently reporting to work while utterly, indefensibly, and hopelessly drunk. The inebriated Inspector of Police, Joseph Kiarie,...