Last Week's Top Stories on FTW Online

Poultry producers
crying wolf over
imports?
With chicken imports
representing just 14% of
total chicken consumption
in South Africa – not
nearly enough to cause the
devastation the top three
local producers are alleging
– questions have been raised
over whether the industry is
crying wolf.
Sars to present revised
terms of reference
at next month’s
stakeholder forum
SA Revenue Service Customs
has made good on its
promise to set up regular
stakeholder forums to engage
with industry on issues of
common concern.
Self-driving trucks –
how soon for SA?
Autonomous trucking is
coming faster than expected
– perhaps within five years
globally – but economic
constraints may see South
Africa being a late adopter,
according to PwC leader of
transportation and logistics,
Andrew Shaw.
Current roadfreight
statistics ‘misleading’
Questions have been
raised over the accuracy
of roadfreight statistics
released by Statistics South
Africa (StatsSA) – with Jan
Havenga, logistics professor
at Stellenbosch University’s
Supply Chain Management
Centre, labelling them
“embarrassingly” inaccurate.
The best and worst
passports of 2017 –
and where SA fits in
If you hold a German
passport you’re top of the
pile in terms of visa-free
access to global destinations,
according to Arton Capital’s
latest Passport Index – with
158 visa-free destinations.
SADC-EU trade
partnership comes
into effect – but
negotiations continue
All aspects of the Economic
Partnership Agreement
(EPA) between the European
Union and the Southern
African Development
Community (SADC) are now
in force – but negotiations
to improve market access
and address certain trade
constraints contained in the
agreement are ongoing.
Signs of tough times
In its January 31 revision
of its outlook, Mitsui OSK
Lines (MOL) announced
that, despite higher bunker
prices, the company had
made an upward revision of
operating loss and ordinary
income/loss.