Empty container boxes crucial for Asia’s exporters are getting stuck in the port of Rotterdam as a growing backlog of undelivered goods at Europe’s export hub forces ocean carriers to prioritize shipments of filled boxes. Empty Container Boxes Stuck at Rotterdam Port...

The best bits of former Business Day editor Songezo Zibi’s new book, Manifesto, come in the closing paragraphs as he dreams of a government free from the pressures of patronage and factions. PETER BRUCE: Forget about ‘making’ industrialists, just get the basics right...

Parliament’s Select Committee on Public Enterprises and Communication has welcomed Durban Port and Gqeberha’s Ngqura Port expansion plans. Move to expand Durban and Ngqura ports welcomed | Freight...

Under pressure from continual rises in production costs, Spanish poultry farmers are considering closing their businesses or reducing output. Farmers warn of chicken shortage in Spain | WATTPoultry...

Business, labour and government have signed an agreement to work together to put an end to truck blockades on the country’s major road freight routes, Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, announced on Monday. Agreement signed to end truck blockades | Freight...

Durban port has become jammed up with abnormal loads that heavy-haul operators can’t move because of route snags, with one such transporter saying he’s got Komatsu dump trucks worth $3 million that have been stuck at the port for three weeks. Heavy-haul cargo jams up...

Since mid-April, authorities in South Africa have officially registered eight new ASF outbreaks among the nation’s pigs. South Africa, Haiti register new ASF cases | Feed...

Beef export values crowned the $1 billion mark once more in April. This is the 1/3 time that parent has been handed this yr, consistent with an evaluation from the U.S. Meat Export Federation. “Global call for for U.S. red meat keeps to conquer giant obstacles, from...

UNCTAD’s rapid assessment of the war’s impact on trade and development shows a rapidly worsening outlook for the world economy, with the situation especially alarming for African and least developed countries. Ukraine war’s impact on trade and development |...

For several years, the European poultry and egg industries have had to contend with many challenges – a trend that seems unlikely to let up in 2022. Rabobank senior animal protein analyst Nan-Dirk Mulder cites the war in Ukraine, input cost inflation and avian...

World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has expressed cautious optimism that more than 100 trade ministers meeting in Geneva would achieve one or two global deals this week, but warned the path there would be bumpy and rocky. The director-general from...