Blogs
Finding the Silver Lining: Kenya’s Economic Hope in 2013
Financial news in this past year has been a series of doom and gloom reports in rapid succession: news of recession, spiking oil prices and a general global economic downturn have plagued us, making us wary of making investments with little promise of returns. In...
Keeping Up With Kwale: Why You Should Be Concerned
As controversy looms over the mining industry in Kenya, with mass cancellation of mining licenses deterring important prospects, it is easy to despair. Mining has not long been a Kenyan priority: the law governing the industry has remained almost unchanged since the...
Food Security and the Logistics Industry: What YOU Can Do to Help
One of the key issues constantly at the forefront of African discussions is the concept of food security. With constant threats to food sources, such as political unrest, use of obsolete technology and farming methods as well as the decline of the agricultural sector...
2013 in Logistics Terms: 10 Months of Greatness So Far
As October kicks off, the year 2013 draws to a close with only two months left of it. While the year has no doubt had its ups and downs for each private citizen, the logistics industry has seen a lot of good unfold over the months passed. Principal of these positive...
Aluta Continua: The Fight for Africa’s Soul
At present, Kenya is facing a poaching crisis of staggering proportions. News outlets have been ablaze with tragic stories of poaching and would be smugglers arrested on their way out of the country with precious tusks, cruelly taken from their now-deceased original...
Economic Success as a Patriotic Duty
Increase in trade, specifically exports, is always a welcome addition to the economy of any given country. For the logistics industry, our joy at additional export demand comes from more than our patriotism: it is also based in our wallets. Export booms create a...
Ocean’s Fourteen: The Logistics Industry Saves the Day
When you think of robbing an armored truck from a bank, you perhaps imagine a gritty narrative of the “good” bandit merely liberating some excess wealth from the greedy tyranny of the bank or casino in a bastardized Robin Hood fantasy. Hollywood has done a stellar job...
We’ve got Your Back: Delegating to the Logistics Industry
Say you've just established your own firm: a plucky little upstart destined for great things that you've been planning for years. Having smartly identified your business opportunities and neutralized your threats, you're poised to be the next Chris Kirubi, but with...
Taking a Stand: The Logistics Industry Supports Weaves
When I was a young boy my dad told me hairs are part of beauty, he told me that's why you see them for sale in a shop and people buy them. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, with the hair care industry in Kenya recently estimated to be worth KES. 20 billion, lines were drawn...