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| Strategic assessment of Global Chemical logistics from South Africa: |
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The project involved identifying the key opportunities for chemical logistics for different lanes with South Africa as Origin and Destination. The project involved mapping the hot lanes for chemical logistics locally and globally.
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There were no published statistics in term of the volumes or market size for chemical logistics. The companies in South Africa has little information to share directly or published at any of the secondary sources. The project involved larger extrapolation of the market size estimations based upon the Unstats. UNStats had listed the values of the export and imports of the important commodities across the major lanes of the south Africa. There was no volumes figures available for the important lanes to rank them in terms of supply and demand. The “dry ports” in South Africa were adding new opportunities for intermodal transportation, which needed to be strategically analysed while mapping the chemical logistics opportunities in SA.
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The project involved greater understanding of the railways and road transportation in South Africa along with the port authority developments.
The Research analyst were suppose to have understanding of the competitive structure of the South African logistics and Chemical market both, in order to map the value chain.
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We were offered 2 more projects for research.
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Strategic assessment of the Intermodal transportation in south Africa with plotting of the value chain.
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Strategic assessment of the local chemical logistics including upstream and downstream supply chains.
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