By being awarded the ISO: 9001:2015 certification, the international designer and cookstoves manufacturer demonstrates the company’s dedication to providing consistently high-quality products and constantly improving its design, manufacturing, and distribution processes to increase customer satisfaction with those processes and the company’s products.

This certification was awarded to BURN Manufacturing after a 12-month assessment of its business processes across all of its core departments by the world’s leading certification company, SGS United Kingdom Ltd.

BURN Manufacturing joins the ranks of more than one million companies and organisations located in 170 different countries that have been certified by the International Standards Organization (ISO).…

• The open skies policy will allow foreign airlines to easily access national airports to boost tourism

• Digitization of logistics and compliance with sustainability policies will shape the future of logistics in African markets.
• Digitalization involves the development of digital platforms that match supply to demand, whether it be courier apps that deliver groceries or platforms that coordinate freight delivery.
• Sustainability significantly overlaps with compliance and regulatory requirements. This means stricter regulations on emissions from logistics vehicles, monitoring of cargo ship pollution, and other issues.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused massive damage to global supply chains, with challenges including route congestion and blockages, a global shortage of key logistics components including shipping containers, lack of space in warehouses, a spike in transportation costs, and substantially increased demand for goods around the world, post-lockdown.

Supply chain stability is also under question due to increased tensions as the Russian-Ukraine war drags on.

According to The Africa Logistics, measures to heal and strengthen ailing chains include digitizing parts of the supply …

• Thousands of young people in Kenya’s Nyanza region will get jobs at the Kisumu Shipyard  
• President Uhuru Kenyatta said the shipyard would also create business opportunities for youths in Kisumu 
• The facility, under the Kenya Shipyards Limited, will also encourage the growth of primary and ancillary manufacturing industries

Thousands of young people in Kenya’s Nyanza region will get jobs at the Kisumu Shipyard, which has just been operationalised.

On August 2, 2022, President Uhuru Kenyatta said the Kisumu shipyard would also create business opportunities for youths in Kisumu.

Kenyatta said the facility, under the Kenya Shipyards Limited, will also encourage the growth of primary and ancillary manufacturing industries.

He also noted that the Kisumu Shipyard would improve transport and safety in the lake, enhance intermodal transport, and boost fishing, tourism and other economic activities in the Eastern Africa region.

“The role of the Kenya Shipyards Limited in developing the Blue …

After years of falling behind equities and fixed income in terms of the rewards they offered to investors, real estate has once again returned to the top end of returns offered by asset classes in the country, thanks to a price appreciation of 10.5% and an appreciation of 2.4% in rental yields over the same period.

Investors in government securities, which account for the vast majority of fixed income assets in the country, have been offered interest rates ranging from 7.2% to 14% across the spectrum of tenors, even though the All Share Index on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has decreased by 16% so far this year.

“The net result of the rising rents and property values is an increase in overall property returns of 16.26% annually. These returns outperform other asset groups and provide safer inflation hedges,” added Ms Hassanali.…