Author:focus-on-transport

Single Window to make supply chain management more efficient

Single Window to make supply chain management more efficient

A single-window information system, which provides one point of reference for all key players in the transport industry, will help to make supply chain management more efficient, especially at South African ports. MARISKA MORRIS learns more

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Eicher goes pro in SA!

Eicher goes pro in SA!

Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV), the joint venture of Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, recently launched Eicher trucks in South Africa; building on a history that stretches back to 1959 and the VECV partnership that is now a decade old

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Original aftermarket

Original aftermarket

We explore some initiatives by vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to serve the aftermarket needs of their customers

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Dark horse

Dark horse

FOCUS was lucky enough to acquire the use of a Mitsubishi Triton 4×4 double cab as a support vehicle for Truck Test 2017 earlier this year. The attention that it garnered was undeniable, and understandable, writes GAVIN MYERS

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Making way for 3D printing

Making way for 3D printing

Barloworld Logistics identified 3D printing as a key tool that is changing the world of supply chain management, with the industry possibly servicing garage-sized industries in the near future. FOCUS reports

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Actros versus Actros!

Actros versus Actros!

Mercedes-Benz recently organised an utterly fascinating test in Portugal, where it pitted the Actros against itself! The results of this test were astounding. Then the company invited the International Truck of the Year jury to Portugal to explain how these โ€œmiracleโ€ results could have been achieved. CHARLEEN CLARKE was there โ€ฆ

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Real buses for Kenya

Real buses for Kenya, Sightseeing tour bus goes electric and Iveco unleashes the Stralis X-Way

Daimler Buses recently announced an ambitious project to launch two Nairobi-built Mercedes-Benz buses for the highly profitable Kenyan market. The buses are specifically built to operate on the rough Kenyan roads.

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Defining the bus of the future

Defining the bus of the future

FOCUS looks into its crystal ball to uncover some innovations that hint at the buses of the future

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Year of the Afriway

Year of the Afriway

Time flies when youโ€™re having fun… The truth of that statement could not have been more surprising when the realisation dawned on GAVIN MYERS that it was exactly a year ago that we last spoke with Ray Karshagen, head of the bus division at Iveco South Africa Works

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Letโ€™s have more taxi blockathons!

Letโ€™s have more taxi blockathons!

I wish that the taxi people would time their blockades to coincide with a passing VIP convoy. That will be fun to watch

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