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Award for Safmarine Safmarine has started the New Year on a high note – taking home a 2013 bronze Hellmann Worldwide Logistics Carrier of the Year award. Africa’s ports a regional responsibility not a national one? Landlocked African countries should help to fund the construction of new sea ports that would benefit them as they are “heavily dependent” on ports owned by neighbouring states, says the African Development Bank (AfDB). Sanral qualifies ‘huge toll fees’ issue The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) says that people who have received a huge e-toll bill have failed to comply with the timeframes stipulated in the enforcement of e-toll violations. Major trade growth projected for 2014 The Mozambican government expects to almost double its export revenue for 2014 and is forecasting growth of between eight and 17 percent in machinery imports. Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority to receive new locomotives The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority has signed a contract with the Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company for the manufacture and supply of four new mainline locomotives .