{"id":3035,"date":"2019-06-11T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"using-tech-to-improve-africas-logistics-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/11\/using-tech-to-improve-africas-logistics-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Tech To Improve Africa&#8217;s Logistics Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Mary-Ann Russon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Industries can make a\nvariety of goods, but they struggle to transport them safely and quickly to\ncustomers without established networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to global property\nconsultancy Knight Frank, the cost of transport takes up 50-75% of the retail\nprice of goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is hope,\nfrom both foreign investment and home-grown solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in\nNigeria, digital start-up Kobo360 developed an app that revolutionizes cargo\ndelivery by making sure that everyone in the supply chain is connected to\nensure the safety and accountability of cargo in transit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A call Centre of staff\nis able to monitor truck deliveries enroute in real-time and communicate\ndirectly with drivers, manufacturers and distributors, aided by GPS satellite\npositioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kobo360 has only\nexisted for three years, but such is the problem of getting goods safely\ndelivered to distributors that many of the continent&#8217;s conglomerates are now\nsigned up as clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Logistics expert\nOlufemi Ransome-Kuti says that solutions like Kobo360 have a knock-on effect of\nbenefiting other industries as well, such as agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment, farmers\nin Nigeria only expect about 50% of their produce to be delivered to\ndistributors or buyers in a sellable condition\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-48481322\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mary-Ann Russon Industries can make a variety of goods, but they struggle to transport them safely and quickly to customers without established networks. According to global property consultancy Knight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}