The companies will partner with the United Nations World Food Programme to build a transport training centre in Accra, dedicated to courses in road transport, fleet management, and temperature-controlled logistics.

Dana UK operations has won a grant to develop an electric powertrain for the OX Delivers truck for emerging markets.

Mitsubishi Fuso has relaunched sales in Tanzania with its newly-appointed distributor, Capstone Corporation. FUSO sales in Tanzania will first begin out of two retail locations, with one in Dar es Salaam and the other in Arusha, an inland city with a strong manufacturing economy. 

The startling ambition of Evum Motors GmbH is evinced by its name. It is derived from the Latin word aevum which, among other things, means “eternity” – a grandiose claim for a company which is only five years old. But what Evum Motors may lack in experience is made up for by its sheer confidence: confidence, that is, in a unique proposition which might well sidestep and get ahead of the more conventional designs of the commercial vehicle giants.

Marcopolo SA of Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil has shipped a first batch of 109 urban buses, out of a total 472 units, to Scania West Africa Ltd of Accra, Ghana.

VWCO has expanded its truck portfolio in Angola with the launch of the Delivery light truck range, which is already available in fifteen countries in South and Central America.

Randon S/A Implementos e Participações has made its first export of platform semi-trailers to Senegal. The deal marks the resumption of export business to the African continent in 2021 for the trailer division and in May, there will be another shipment to Senegal, but this time of tank and tipping trailers.

The Hyva Group has announced effective June 1, 2019, it merged its Southern African operations, Hyva Southern Africa with independent truck crane dealer, Lift & Shift to form Hyva Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd, which is to be based in Johannesburg.