Prof. Jan Havenga: Thoughts on South Africa’s logistics challenges due to the COVID-19 lockdown

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Prof. Jan Havenga, Stellenbosch University (ZA)

Thoughts on South Africa’s logistics challenges due to the COVID-19 lockdown

In this presentation, Prof. Havenga explains how South Africa’s lockdown impacted the freight transport market, how the challenges arose and what are possible solutions to them.

The presentation was given on 14 April 2020 in a webinar organized by the South African partner of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, a research centre established in 2012 by Cambridge and Heriot-Watt.

Download the 13-page presentation here.

Prof. Jan Havenga

Jan Havenga, Stellenbosch University (ZA), is Professor of Logistics Management and a leading researcher in the field of macrologistics that he co-established.

Macro-logistics researches the cost and structure of national logistics systems and suggests solutions in order to reduce the total cost of ownership of economies. These solutions could relate to policy, infrastructure or systemic changes (i.e. broader than the freight transport industry). Havenga’s work stretches from South Africa to sub-Saharan countries and over the last years also in India, Vietnam and China.

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