Thursday July 31st, 2025.

Here's your Logistics Daily round-up for today - keeping you informed on the latest developments shaping the logistics and supply chain landscape across Africa and beyond.

The minister of industry, trade and investment, Jumoke Oduwole, has emphasised the transformative potential of Electric Vehicles (EVs) for Nigeria’s transport and logistics sectors. She noted that adopting EVs could drive innovation, efficiency, and growth in the sector. Ms Oduwole stated this on Wednesday during her visit to SAGLEV, an EV assembly firm in Imota, Ikorodu, Lagos State...Read more

A workshop in Alexandria was co-organized by the Egyptian Maritime Transport & Logistics Sector in collaboration with the IMO. It gathered stakeholders from across Egypt’s maritime and energy sectors and facilitated dialogs among the various stakeholders, focusing on shaping a shared vision, identifying priority actions, exploring financing opportunities and strengthening capacity-building efforts for Egypt’s maritime decarbonization journey...Read more

The African Continental Free Trade Secretary General Wamkele Mene emphasized the urgent need for Africa to strengthen trade ties with the Caribbean, creating a strong joint domestic market rather than relying on third-party partners. In an interview with CNBC at the Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum in Grenada, Africa, Mene pointed to the current global trade disruptions as a catalyst for this shift...Read  more

Nigeria could forfeit as much as N1.6 trillion annually as the United States and Russia intensify plans to position Togo as West Africa’s next maritime hub, a move analysts warn could trigger a sharp decline in government cargo volumes and port investments. Significant volumes of cargo bound for Nigeria have long been diverted to the ports of Lomé in Togo, Cotonou in Benin Republic and Tema in Ghana, largely due to the prohibitive cost of doing business at Nigerian ports...Read more