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Boost for Mombasa Port as Uganda affirms use by MARTIN MWITA An oil tanker sailing into the Port of Mombasa/HANDOUT •This week, the new Uganda Consul General to Mombasa Ambassador Paul Mukumbya held business talks with KPA acting managing director Rashid Salim. •The discussions included plans towards enhancing efficiency at the Port and the Northern Corridor. Uganda has affirmed its continued use of the Port of Mombasa and commitment to enhancing infrastructure along the Northern Corridor, a boost to the Kenyan seaport. While the landlocked country has the option to us...

Disruption arising from COVID-19 has accelerated trends already apparent in the industrials market –– particularly digitalisation and trade volatility –– and transformation has gone from a “nice to have” to a necessity, according to the latest findings from Baker McKenzie. The law firm surveyed 700 company leaders in six industrial sub-sectors in early 2020, and again at the end of the year after the pandemic had taken hold of the global economy. In Africa, challenges in the industrials market were exacerbated by the pandemic, and highlighted by the requirements for seamless trade...

Here are some selected news articles from the week ended 06 March 2021. Part 2 is available here. This is a feature at Global Economic Intersection every Monday evening or Tuesday morning. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Fuel supplies drop most on record as US oil refining collapses, leading to largest ever jump in oil supplies Refinery utilization at an all time low, 10% lower than it's ever been; oil refined is least on record; record jump in oil inventories, record drop in gasoline inventories; distillates production at a 26 y...

Challenges remain for Industrials, but calculus shifts Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the '&' symbol, click Advanced Search and use the 'search headings' and/or 'in first paragraph' options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by Disruption arising from Covid-19 has accelerated trends already apparent in the industrials market –– particularly digitalisation and trade volatility –– and transformation has gone from a “nice to...

The East African Thursday February 25 2021 Cargo containers waiting to be picked by owners at the Inland Container Depot in Nairobi. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Advertisement Regional balance of trade improved in the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, with lower imports, as Kenya’s manufactured products and demand for Tanzanian minerals held up the economies. According to a report by the United Nations Economic for Africa (Uneca) and Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) released  Wednesday, Kenya registered an increase in exports of manufactured products, especially non-food industrial supplies and machiner...