Barney Curtis, executive director of the Federation of Eastern and Southern African Road Transport Associations (Fesarta) is to address the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals on Tuesday April 17 at 18.00hrs at the SAP Auditorium, Woodmead, Johannesburg.
“Much has been said about South Africa being the ‘gateway’ to sub-Saharan Africa,” said the council. “For many reasons, this has not quite happened. In the recent 2012 Barloworld Logistic’s Supplychain Foresight Survey, 21% of respondents felt that South Africa is the gateway to Africa, whilst 69% said that South Africa could be the gateway to Africa if it was able to establish relationships with key trading partners and capture the key corridors to major economic regions in Africa.
“Barney has been intimately involved in much of the negotiations that have taken place trying to bring about some degree of common sense and viable international transport corridors into sub-Saharan Africa. He is expected to give a real and candid insight into what has happened, what is happening, and what some of the frustrations and idiosyncrasies are in terms of opening up Africa’s trading corridors.”
Fesarta members include associations from: Angola, Botswana, DRC Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Details can be had from: Mike Johnston at (082) 899-9945 or logmgt@distribution.co.za
