ITALCHAM News

17th October 2022 Despite a record-breaking 2021, the first five months of 2022 for Cargo Compass SA – one of the country’s largest private freight forwarding companies – are promising an outperformance of last year. The main reason, states Sebastiano Iorio, MD of the Italian-owned company, lies in Cargo Compass’... →

17th October 2022 Italian inverter manufacturer, Enertronica Santerno S.p.A. will be starting its Santerno SA Lab, employing 4 additional South African technicians and supervisors, explains Enertronica Sub-Sahara Area Manager Luigi Guerra, the goal of the laboratory being to localise additional work in South... →

17th October 2022 There is no doubt for Federico Bellotto, MD of Italian-American agriculture machinery producer CNH Industrial, that 2021 has been one of the best years ever for his company, with the highest number of machines sold to date. These record numbers have been, according to Bellotto, driven by a mix of... →

17th October 2022 South Africa remains the third largest African economy, behind Nigeria and Egypt, and the most advanced and varied economy across the continent. In 2021, South Africa’s GDP was worth about $420 billion. The 2021 annual GDP growth rate was 4.9% and the first two quarters of this year have... →

26th November 2021 The Italian-South African Chamber of Trade and Industry (Italcham) aims to continue improving its presence in South Africa next year. “We intend to establish an antenna in Cape Town and, possibly, even in Durban and Gqeberha. This means managing multiple hubs with a higher number of events... →

29th October 2021 The uptake of additive technologies has the potential to reduce the effective distance between Italy and South Africa, by increasing the respective countries’ ease of impact on one another. This is according to Dr. Enrico Annacondia, CEO of the Italian Association of Additive Technologies (AITA).... →