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between The Institute of Export & especially from Ghana and Kenya to Europe due
International Trade and TradeMark East to high inflation and energy prices in Europe.
Africa (TMEA) to implement a ‘digital trade Perishables are not high yielding cargo
corridor’ between the UK and Kenya to help and therefore traditional perishable airfreight
simplify trade. This has created the ‘UK- markets like Nairobi have faced stiff competition
Kenya Trade Logistics Information Pipeline’ from other more profitable routes in its
(TLIP) initiative which aims to eliminate customers’ networks, which has led to either
documentation and introduce better cancellations and or reduction in frequencies.
visibility in the supply chains between Flowers and perishables are also exported to
the UK and Kenya and uses blockchain Europe from South Africa and Tanzania but as
technology to link all those in a supply flowers are a seasonal commodity mostly being
chain together. shipped between the months of Oct–April
As per the information given to the months, no instability has been witnessed here
publication by Swissport, a leading aviation owing to the situation in Europe. The volumes
services company providing cargo handling of meat have also not being impacted from
services, higher freight prices have affected Swissport Tanzania as the most active trade
and perishables businesses volumes of cargo and available capacity lanes are Middle East.
saw dipping sales, dumping of
crops, broken supply chains,
owing to border closures,
grounding of flights and
flight cancellations, delays in CONNECTING AFRICA WITH THE WORLD
transportation times, a decline
in prices of cut flowers and port
lockdowns apart from several
logistical issues. The industry
was limping back to normalcy
when the macroeconomic
challenges in Europe and Covid
lockdowns in China dealt a
fresh blow to exports.
However different countries
are reviving at different rates.
With the Russia-Ukraine war
going on, importers are busy
trucking the rose shipments
that arrive by air from Kenya to
Turkey, to Russia.
As per IATA, African airlines
saw cargo volumes increase by
1.0% in August 2022 compared
to August 2021. This was a
significant improvement on
growth recorded the previous
month (-3.5%), while capacity
was 1.4% below the August
2021 levels.
A significant development
this year is that the Government
of the Netherlands and Kenya
Flower Council (KFC) signed
a Framework of Cooperation
on the adoption of sea freight
for perishables in Kenya and
to strengthen the efforts in that
direction for perishables in Kenya.
Another promising
development is the partnership

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