This is the second of a series of blog postings from Clare Bottle, who will be telling us about her travels in Zambia - supported by transport charity Transaid - to see what the transport industry is like out there: Today was a series of journeys and goodbyes. Thank you to my lovely husband for dropping...

This morning we formulated a list of the people I want to meet over the next couple of weeks. It includes government officials, training providers and transport operators from various modes. Some of them will respond best if I just call into their offices; others prefer a couple of days' notice....

Henry Chipewo (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport) has weighed in on the problem of infrastructure free ridership. Henry's radical proposal is for government to come up with a policy framework that will restrict the movement of cargo above a certain tonnage on roads in order to avoid...

Good to see Proflight pushing for jet fuel pricing reform, something we have strongly argued on this blog. What is interesting is that Proflight are linking this to competition between foreign and domestic carriers. Higher jet fuel prices most certainly puts domestic carriers at a disadvantage since...