The COVID-19 pandemic has brought immense stress to the logistics industry, particularly with regards to the fast and efficient delivery of crucial medical supplies and vaccines. During the recent shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines in Rwanda, Freight in Time faced logistical complexities (such as cold-chain management, transportation and vaccine stock monitoring); and a lack of coordination of government stakeholders and donors.
The shipment... Read more
May 05
Over 20 years ago, Sunripe – a fruits and vegetables grower and exporter faced a difficult situation of supply chain for its products. Since the company sold perishables to over 30 countries worldwide, they needed to come up with a precise logistics solution to be able to meet the high demand and maintain integrity of their products. The whole process is time and temperature sensitive and they needed to control that part of the supply chain becau... Read more
May 05
New collaboration will address vaccine supply challenges in 171 health facilities ensuring that children in the hardest-to-reach areas are protected with vaccines Geneva, 4 December 2018 – Thousands of children living in the densely populated districts of Wakiso, Nakaseke and Nakasongola in central Uganda will get better access to life-saving vaccines thanks to a new collaboration between the Uganda Ministry of Health, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,... Read more
May 05
The Ugandan Ministry of health and NMS have awarded FiT a final mile distribution project for temperature controlled vaccines funded by GAVI. The pilot project is carried out in 3 districts in Uganda.
The current vaccine allocations are managed at district level and there is no stock and quality visibility and control by the Central Vaccine Store and donors which opposes equitable distribution to of potent vaccines to the actual Health Facilit... Read more
May 05
FiT is warehousing around 20,000 SKUs of DELL spare parts it is importing as IOR into Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and thus enables Dell to offer the warranty of faulty part replacement within 48 hours during warranty period also in these East African countries.
Due to dynamics of the typical distributor model in Africa, no distributor is willing to maintain and hold huge inventory of spare parts. This in turn has a huge negative impact on post... Read more
May 05
FiT proposed an Ocean Freight solution to UNICEF Somalia with which not only all the initial order of 300 MT of RUTF could be shipped EXW Nairobi within budget, but also an additional 19 ctrs. with mosquito nets could be forwarded from Mombasa to Mogadishu.
Unicef Somalia had procured 300MT RUTF from producer in Nairobi Kenya which urgently needed to reach Mogadishu. Due to urgency primary forwarder suggested an air charter solution from NB... Read more
May 05
FiT provided solution for the import of food supplements to remote areas in South Sudan when air freight suddenly limitations occurred to air freight movements to Juba.
In February 2017 South Sudan officially declared a famine. Relief Organizations subsequently had to get food supplements to remote areas in South Sudan as fast as possible. Care international had planned a shipment of 21 ton of RUTF from Dubai to Juba by air via Addis Ababa, E... Read more
May 05
FiT is importing pharmaceutical products of one of the major global pharmaceutical manufacturers as Importer of Record (IOR) into Tanzania and set up a dedicated pharma-grade GDP warehouse incl. cold stores from where FiT delivers the pharmaceuticals to distributors country wide.
The pharma company is working with several local distributors and wanted to manage their supply chain more efficiently but without having to register and set up their... Read more
May 08
PROJECT CARGO IMPORT FOR 8.5 MW SOLAR FIELD IN RWANDA
FiT improved import procedures with local authorities and consignee and thus cut lead-time for transit from DAR to site by 80% with the respective savings on port storage costs and warehousing of solar panels in Kigali mitigated the risk of stock outs at site in Nasho.
A lack of coordination between suppliers, and the consignee as well as between consignee and local authorities caused de... Read more
May 08
VERDE BEEF PROCESSING PLC
Verde Beef Processing PLC is a world class operation with current capacity to produce premium grain- fed beef for export, currently processing and exporting more than 130,000 carcasses per year. A total of 43- 40ft OT containers are being loaded out and shipped from South Africa through Djibouti to Ethiopia with combined efforts from both stations- Faiz, Lemlem & Team together with Miss Anjana and the group commercial... Read more