Business Logistics Guides: How businesses plan, move, and track goods, people, and payments — covering freight, invoicing, cross-border operations, and supply chain decisions.
A trader can have steady buyers, a fair supplier price and a full stall, and still lose the week. Tomatoes soften, fish warms up, chicken sits in a shared freezer that dies during a power cut. Demand was never the problem. She had nowhere reliable to keep the stock cold. That gap is the opening … Read more
If you’ve spent time around Xiaobei Road, Sanyuanli, or the warehouse districts of Foshan, you know the rhythm of business here has its own pulse. During the day, the markets are quiet. Many shopkeepers sit behind counters scrolling through their phones. The real energy starts in the late afternoon: phone screens lighting up with messages … Read more
Airtel Money charges in Kenya depend on two things: whether the money stays on the Airtel network, and how much you move. Airtel to Airtel transfers are free at every amount. Agent withdrawals cost between KES 11 and KES 309, and sending to another network costs between KES 7 and KES 108, according to Airtel … Read more
Airtel Money charges in Uganda have two parts on a withdrawal: Airtel’s banded fee and the government’s 0.5% excise duty on the amount you take out. Withdrawing UGX 100,000 costs about UGX 3,800: UGX 3,300 to Airtel and UGX 500 in tax. Sending the same amount costs UGX 1,200, and receiving money is free. The … Read more
Kwame flew from Accra to Nairobi for a six-day sponsored shoot and came home without knowing whether the trip made money or lost it. He had a flight, a hotel, three currencies, a sponsorship, and two payouts still landing on different days, but no real travel budget for African creators to weigh any of it … Read more
A software developer in East Legon closes out August with three new client contracts and a waitlist. A guesthouse owner in Elmina closes out the same month wondering whether to lay off two of her four staff. Both are running real businesses in the same country, in the same quarter. The Ghana Statistical Service’s latest … Read more
If you’re reading this from a rented apartment in a city where the rent went up again this year, you already know the arithmetic. The paycheck lands, the bills clear it out, and the gap between “working hard” and “getting ahead” doesn’t close no matter how many extra hours you put in. For a lot … Read more
Land at Kigali International Airport on any given morning and the first thing you notice isn’t the hills, though there are a thousand of them rolling toward every horizon. It’s the quiet. No horns. No litter blowing across the tarmac road into the city center. A traffic officer waves a line of motorcycle taxis through … Read more
A security firm in Nairobi budgeted May and June payroll at the old rates, waiting to see whether President Ruto’s Labour Day announcement would actually become law before changing anything. It was the right instinct and the wrong bet. The Regulation of Wages (General) (Amendment) Order 2026 was gazetted on 26 June, backdated to 1 … Read more
At Abossey Okai, Accra’s spare parts district, a trader unpacks a container that left Guangzhou six weeks earlier: brake pads, filters, bearings, wiring harnesses, enough stock to supply a dozen mechanics for a month. He priced the deal off his supplier’s invoice. He is about to learn that invoice was never the real number. Importing … Read more