Corporate Affairs
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Comair staff to embark on strike
JSE-listed airline Comair’s airport ground staff, represented by trade union Uasa, will embark on a strike on Wednesday. The union and Comair had been engaged in salary negotiations since the beginning of November 2015.
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Senegal plans imminent launch new national airline
Senegal plans to launch a new national airline to replace loss-making Senegal Airlines, which had its air operator’s certificate revoked last month amid mounting debts, Finance Minister Amadou Ba said on Monday. “Senegal has initiated the creation process of a new airline”, he said at a news conference with his French counterpart, Michel Sapin, in Dakar. “In the coming days, we should have a new airline.
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Draft code targets 10% black pilots, 35% black bus ownership, more women in taxi industry
The Department of Trade and Industry has invited comment on the Draft Amended Transport Sector Code, which has been gazetted in terms of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act. The transport sector code, one of the biggest sector codes, consis…
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Rail arson in Cape Town will cause train delays
Arson attacks on trains at the Cape Town station on Saturday will cause delays to Metrorail’s service on Monday. Five platforms at the station are out of commission while repairs are conducted after carriages were torched. Delays of up 60 minutes are expected as trains wait in a holding pattern outside Cape Town Station to be allocated arrival and departure slots. Regional manager Richard Walker said the deliberate destruction of thirty seven trains severely compromises the region’s ability to …
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Cost increases set to delay new truck acquisitions
A 30c/l increase in the fuel levy, another rise in interest rates and new consignor/consignee legislation will all load more costs onto a transport industry that is already struggling to remain profitable, says Standard Bank business vehicle and asset …
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VWSA to host inaugural black-owned suppliers day in May
Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has invited black-owned suppliers to participate in its first ever black-owned suppliers’ day. The event will take place at the VWSA PeoplePavilion in Uitenhage, in the Eastern Cape, on Thursday, May 5.
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Taiwanese trade mission ends African tour in Joburg
Nonprofit trade and investment promotion organisation the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (Taitra) hosted 25 Taiwanese enterprises in Johannesburg last month to assist in developing relations with local companies.
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Heat exchanger market worth $21.8M by 2019
India-based market research company Markets and Markets (M&M) predict that the heat exchanger market will be worth $21.08-million by 2019 owing to demand increase from Europe and Asia. The exchanger market report conducted by M&M is based on heat exchanger types such as shell and tube, plate and frame, air cooled and printed circuit. It is also based on applications such as chemicals, petrochemicals, oil and gas, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC), food and beverage, pulp and paper and power generation.
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Software developed to save container operators millions
The StarConomy reefer control software designed by manufacturer of dry containers Maersk Container Industry (MCI), in conjunction with fruit multinational Dole, supports reefer refrigerated container operators by allowing them to maximise the value of their refrigerated cargoes in MCI’s Star Cool units. The software’s aim is to reduce operating costs and ultimately meet the industry’s sustainability objectives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Container companies’ price hike announcements harm industry
The European Commission announced its concerns that container liner shipping companies’ practice of publishing their future price increase intentions may harm competition and customers by raising prices for their services to and from Europe, in breach …