Africa

2021.03.26

Hapag-Lloyd acquires Africa specialist NileDutch

03/23/2021  ·   Acquisition significantly strengthens Hapag-Lloyd´s position in the African market  ·   Customers to benefit from an even denser n...

2021.03.14

Transporting harvested stem cells from brazil to south Afric

Mar 12, 2021 When onboard couriers transport HSC products across the globe it’s not only an on-time delivery that matters. “On-temp” delivery is even more crucial. Maintaining the r...

2021.03.06

Alfa Laval wins energy efficiency order in North Africa

March 4, 2021 Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply Alfa Laval OLMI air coolers to a refinery in Egypt. The ...

2021.02.24

World AC Market – 2021 Update -- AFRICA

Continued from January Special Issue The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted in June that the economy of sub-Saharan Africa was expected to shrink by 3.2% in 2020. The two major economies i...

2021.02.24

The challenge of the COVID-19 vaccines cold chain in Africa

2021/02/23 A large proportion of African countries do not have the necessary infrastructure for the storage of vaccines at low temperatures. Solar cooling can be a solution in rural areas.   T...

2020.11.25

AUC-IEA Ministerial Forum: Securing Africa’s Energy Future i

November 24rd, 2020 A revitalised energy sector is essential to Africa’s economic transformation. The AUC-IEA Ministerial Forum on Powering Africa's Energy Future will bring together a diverse mix of high-level stakeholders from government, industry and other international organizations to discuss implementation priority actions to ensure Africa’s energy sector is best positioned ...

2020.11.23

The Covid-19 crisis is reversing progress on energy access i

20 November 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has been dismantling steady progress made in recent years to increase access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy – an objective enshrined in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7). Sub-Saharan Africa – home to three-quarters of the almost 800 million people around the world who don’t have access to electricity &nda...

2020.11.14

Japanese technology to fight COVID-19 in Africa and Asia

TOKYO, 11 November 2020 – Japanese technology and products will help countries in Africa and Asia limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the United Nations Industrial Development O...

2020.11.11

Negative impacts of the illegal timber trade between Cameroo

November 10, 2020 WASHINGTON-D.C. - Following a three year investigation in Cameroon and Vietnam, the Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released today Tainted Timber, Tarnished Temples, a report showing how several Vietnamese companies operating in Cameroon are at the heart of a booming illegal timber trade between ...

2020.11.07

A new African Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling a

November 5, 2020 A new African Centre of Excellence for sustainable cooling and cold chain (ACES) based in Rwanda, will help African farmers get their produce to market quickly and efficiently, thus ...