First Hectares Capital is an agribusiness and forestry infrastructure investment company for Africa that mobilizes teams to design, fund, and execute projects.
Africa Atlantic Franchise Farms is a 25,000-acre property along shores of Lake Volta that grows corn and tests other crops in Ghana. It employs about 120 staff during harvesting season. The organization boasts of a strong multinational business leadership and a solid Ghanaian partnership.
The African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI) is a non-profit research and training initiative based in Cambridge, Massachusetts designed to inspire and empower African agribusiness professionals of today and tomorrow, and innovate and network with the global market of ideas and commerce. AKILI is a training hub that facilitates industry training of farmers as entrepreneurs, as well as innovation in sustainable economic, environmental and social impact designs.
Bectrum Trade International, a fully owned affiliate of Bectrum Investment International LLC, is a market leader in the Middle East for import-export of high-quality commodities for its partner countries in Africa and Asia.
Freight Reach Services is a freight solutions company based in Dubai, backed by people who have over 40 years of global experience in the freight and logistics industry. The company offers a comprehensive package of freight services, such as air, sea, road freight and multimodal transport; with a network reach spanning Africa, the Far East, USA, Europe, and the Indian Sub-Continent.
Global Express Africa is a transport logistics company that offers bespoke charter services to Africa or intra-African cargo and GSA services.
G-bag specializes in shipping excess baggage or packages by air from Asia and the Middle East to different African countries. G-bag has drop-off points based in major cities throughout Asia and the Middle-East, as well as pick-up points across Africa.
FIATA, in French “Federation Internationale des Associations de Transitaires et Assimiles”, in English “International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations”, in German “Internationale Federation der Spediteurorganisationen”, was founded in Vienna/Austria on May 31, 1926.
The FLA (FIATA Logistics Academy) is a Standing Committee of FIATA working to help promote education and training in freight logistics as the top priority of FIATA deliverables.
NAFL, founded in 1992 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has been formed primarily to bring together in one body all major players in the UAE’s freight forwarding and shipping industry. NAFL strives to ensure UAE’s leading position and Dubai’s pre-eminence in the international freight and transportation fields.
In this book “Past, Present & Predictions” 37-year industry veteran Issa Baluch examines transport logistics innovations in great projects of the past, analyzes the challenges of today’s dynamic industry, and shares his vision for its possibilities in the future. Transport Logistics first presents ten case studies of historical projects that demanded careful transport logistics management. It surveys a wide variety of projects, some of them successes and some of them failures.