Last Week's Top Stories on FTW Online

Chicken import
war claims another
casualty
South Africa’s third-largest
chicken producer, Country
Bird Holdings (CBH), is
the latest casualty of the
cheap poultry imports from
the European Union (EU),
announcing that it has been
forced to close one of its three
abattoirs.
Shipping line adds
weighbridge in
Durban
The second Mediterranean
Shipping Company (MSC)
weighbridge in Durban is
now operational.
MSC director Glenn Delve
told FTW Online that the
additional facility – located
in Ambrose Park – would
help to ease the backlog.
Davies launches
new supply chain
procurement incentive
The Department of Trade
and Industry has launched
a Strategic Partnership
Programme (SPP) designed
to enhance supplier
development and support
manufacturing, particularly
for black industrialists,
said Minister of Trade and
Industry, Dr Rob Davies.
Call to speed up SEZ in
Western Cape
The establishment of a
Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
in Atlantis in the Western
Cape will go a long way
towards boosting investment
and growing manufacturing
capability in the province,
according to Cape Town
mayor Patricia de Lille.
Steel and engineering
sector set for
turnaround?
The troubled steel and
engineering sector could be
set for a turnaround in its
fortunes this year based on
recent manufacturing and
production outputs.
City of Cape Town
makes headway on
freeway project
The City of Cape Town is
planning to complete three
unfinished freeways and
bridges on the western,
central and eastern side
of the Foreshore Freeway,
according to executive mayor
Patricia de Lille.
‘Uber, Amazon can’t
replace forwarders’
Against a background of
growing speculation that
Amazon and Uber may be
about to launch their own
global freight brokerage
businesses, the British
International Freight
Association (Bifa) believes
its members have nothing
to fear.