Blogs
Just how big a slice do KRA and KPA get from your car import cake?
Your second hand car is on-board a ship slowly making its way from Japan, UK, Singapore or Dubai to its destination: the Port City of Mombasa. Assuming you have complied with the three main regulations for importing a car to Kenya, you should be thinking about Customs...
Are you benefitting from maximum depreciation of your car import?
Second to my love for logistics is that for German engineering. Likely you’ve heard the phrase “German engineering” several times this year and more than enough times in your life to welcome the term with a sneer. I own a German auto and have done so for well over...
Eastern Africa’s Coalition of the Willing
Mombasa, Nairobi, Kampala and Kigali have little in common; in as far as the peoples and cultures have come to be known, and business has come to be done, these cities are hardly bedfellows. They are, however, not strangers in bed. There has been an upsurge in...
My Umrah Trip
Umrah is a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, performed by Muslims that can be undertaken at any time of the year. In the Sharia, Umrah means to perform Tawaf round the Kaaba and Sa'i between Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, after assuming a sacred state, either from a Miqat...
787 Orders Help Boeing Rise Above
Boeing’s commercial aviation business has taken a beating in the press this year, thanks to multiple fires that caused a worldwide grounding of its 787 Dreamliner jets. But buyers don’t seem to be bothered by the headlines. When the company released its second-quarter...
Southwest Landing Gear Collapse At LGA
Clearly landing gear are not supposed to collapse on landing. While this is an unusual event, it is not unheard of, even in airline operations. So what could cause the nose landing gear to collapse as apparently happened to the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 on...
Logistics giant Eddie Stobart becomes the latest ABS
Logistics company Stobart Group has been granted an ABS licence for its latest legal enterprise, One Legal Ltd. It is the latest big brand to move into the legal sector, following the announcement yesterday that Direct Line had applied for an ABS licence to launch DLG...
U.S.-Australia System Promotes Logistics Interoperability
A new logistics tracking system between the United States and Australia will help to ensure faster, more coordinated responses to humanitarian crises and other contingencies while laying the foundation for closer cooperation across the Asia-Pacific region, the senior...