by sidoman | Jul 24, 2017 | Infrastructure & Logistics
From the archive: this column first appeared in July 2017. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. If you’ve been to Mombasa, you must by now know about the ferry, which is somewhat synonymous with the town Likoni. Driving along Mama Ngina drive...
by sidoman | Feb 11, 2017 | Infrastructure & Logistics
From the archive: this column first appeared in February 2017. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. If figures are anything to go by, Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is set to grow at a rate of 6 per cent in 2017. This is based on...
by sidoman | Apr 26, 2016 | Infrastructure & Logistics
From the archive: this column first appeared in April 2016. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. 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....
by sidoman | Mar 10, 2014 | Infrastructure & Logistics
From the archive: this column first appeared in March 2014. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. Wednesday morning saw Kenya wake up to a rude shock: the most common means of transport for most of the nation, matatus, were on strike. Unlike...
by sidoman | Oct 24, 2013 | Infrastructure & Logistics
From the archive: this column first appeared in October 2013. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. With construction on the standard gauge railway linking Kenya to Uganda and Rwanda set to begin in November 2013, Kenya can be said to be moving in...
by sidoman | Sep 24, 2013 | Infrastructure & Logistics
From the archive: this column first appeared in September 2013. Names, figures and rules are as they stood at the time. The logistics industry can be explained using a model of the human body: the delivery crews would be the “hands”, dispatch headquarters the “nerve...