J Audibert, President 2009

The global crisis

In light of the global crisis and the difficult economic situation we are facing, years 2009-2010 will for sure provide us with its load of challenges. In this context, forwarding agents have a crucial role to play with regards to the optimisation of logistic flows. They should get closer to their customers than ever before, be attentive to understand their business patterns and the direction in which they are moving. Freight forwarders ought to innovate and offer tailor-made logistic solutions in order to increase their competitiveness on the market.



The objective is not to "reinvent the wheel" but to identify and offer various possible combinations to customers who will choose the best appropriate solution to their specific needs.



My aim as President this year, is to pursue the ....(read more)

Monday, 30th Mar 2009

Air cargo

Customs key performance indicators

Last year, at the Customs, the Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) established targets for a number of key performance indicators and measured them.

The MRA set a target of 3 days to issue a tariff ruling and managed to achieve it in 2.5 days on average last year.

Furthermore, the average dwell time for sea cargo was of 3 hours in year 2009, an improvement of 1 hour compared to the targeted objective of 4 hours.

Concerning air freight, the average dwell time was in line with the target set at the beginning of the year (45 minutes).

Finally, according to MRA, the export clearance time last year for sea cargo was on average of 7 minutes, one minute better than the initial objective of 8 minutes. ....(read more)

Friday, 5th Feb 2010

Sea transport

Global demand for cargo space on ships increases

The international firm of consultants AXS Alphaliner has pointed out that as demand for the transportation of cargo is growing, shipping lines are starting to return into service vessels that were laid up last year during the world economic crisis.

The latest figures of AXS Alphaliner show that the fleet of idle container ships has decreased by 142 000 TEUs last month, from 581 ships at the beginning of year 2010 to 532 at the end of January.

However, vessels that are not in active service still represent 10.4% of the total fleet.

According to the analysts whose firm is located in Paris, “The outlook for the liner market has improved considerably over the last 12 months as both volume and rate increases appear to be resilient.”

“There has been increasing optimism among ....(read more)

Friday, 5th Feb 2010