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What the Northern Corridor teaches us about freight reliability

Transit times between Mombasa and Kampala vary by up to 40%. We broke down where the hours actually go — and which of them are controllable.

12 Jun 2026 · 8 min read

“Reliability is not the average transit time. It is the variance around it.”

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Corridors

What the Northern Corridor teaches us about freight reliability

Transit times between Mombasa and Kampala vary by up to 40%. We broke down where the hours actually go — and which of them are controllable.

12 Jun 2026 · 8 min read

Technology

Why visibility alone doesn't fix your supply chain

Data without decision workflows is just noise. A practical framework for turning tracking into action.

28 May 2026 · 6 min read

Market

The economics of empty running in East Africa

Backhaul matching can meaningfully cut cost per tonne-km. We ran the numbers across four corridors.

14 May 2026 · 7 min read

Operations

Designing SLAs transporters can actually hit

Unrealistic service levels create disputes, not performance. How to build agreements that hold.

30 Apr 2026 · 5 min read

Technology

Building logistics software for low-bandwidth realities

Why our driver app is under 12MB and works offline — and what that means for data quality.

16 Apr 2026 · 6 min read

Sustainability

Fuel, load factor and the emissions case for consolidation

Better load planning is the fastest emissions lever available to African road freight today.

2 Apr 2026 · 5 min read

Corridors

Border post delays: what the data shows in 2026

Median dwell times at four major crossings, and the documentation patterns that predict them.

19 Mar 2026 · 9 min read

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