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01 · Latest Trade Facilitation × BeezyLCL Platform Beyond the Numbers: What Uganda’s Logistics Performance Tells Us About the Future of Trade Uganda’s ambition to become a competitive East African trading hub depends on efficient, predictable and transparent movement of goods. However, the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) shows a decline in Uganda’s Customs score, from 2.97 in 2016 to 2.20 in 2023, with the country ranking 111th globally in Customs and 109th overall in 2023. This highlights the need to strengthen trade facilitation and cross-border efficiency. Read the full story → 02 BeezyLCL Platform × Technology Partners BeezyLCL: Building the Digital Trade Architecture for a Connected Cargo Ecosystem In digital trade facilitation, building a platform is only one part of the journey. The bigger challenge is ensuring that the platform can work with the systems, institutions and technologies ready exist. Read the full story → 03 BeezyLCL Platform · What Users Need to Know BeezyLCL system and what the users need to know: A Digital Bridge Across the Cargo Journey What if following your cargo through Uganda’s logistics system was as simple as tracking a parcel online? Read the full story → 04 BeezyLCL Platform × TradeMark Africa Connecting Traders, Consolidators and Agents Through One Digital Platform: The BeezyLCL Cargo consolidation involves multiple stakeholders with distinct roles, but fragmented processes and communication can make it difficult to track cargo and share information efficiently. BeezyLCL seeks to address this gap by connecting traders, consolidators and clearing and forwarding agents within one integrated digital environment. Read the full story → 05 BeezyLCL Platform × Stakeholder Consultation From Paperwork to Digital Records: BeezyLCL Seeks to Ease Cargo Clearance for Traders For a small trader waiting for goods to be cleared, the journey does not end when the cargo arrives. It can often mean another round of paperwork, emails, document amendments and follow-ups before the goods are finally released. Read the full story → 06 Opinion · BeezyLCL Platform A Shared Interest in Compliance: Building a More Predictable Cargo Ecosystem through the BeezyLCL Compliance is often discussed as a regulatory requirement, but within the cargo-consolidation ecosystem, its importance extends much further. For traders, consolidators, clearing and forwarding agents and other service providers, compliance can directly influence the cost, speed and reliability of doing business. Where documentation is incomplete, information is inconsistent or procedures are not followed correctly, the resulting delays and complications can affect multiple actors along the cargo journey. Read the full story → 07 Opinion · BeezyLCL Platform × UCCA Shaping a Digital Cargo Ecosystem Through Collaboration The journey towards a fully digital cargo-consolidation ecosystem requires more than simply putting existing processes onto a digital platform. It requires connecting the different stakeholders, responsibilities and information flows involved in the process so that they can work together seamlessly, rather than simply replicating manual processes in a digital format. With the BeezyLCL in place, its intended to connect traders, consolidators, clearing and forwarding agents and other stakeholders whose responsibilities, workflows and information needs differ. For that reason, continued consultation is essential in ensuring that the platform reflects how cargo consolidation and clearance actually work in practice. Read the full story → 08 Breakfast & Learn × Understanding the Maxims From Potential to Performance: Can Our Capacity Match Our Ambition? As CINAT Group continues its restoration and growth journey, the company is increasingly recognising that achieving its ambitions requires more than strategy. It requires people who are equipped to translate plans into action, deliverables into results and individual potential into company’s performance. This was the focus of a recent Breakfast and Learn session on “Understanding the Maxims”. Read the full story → 09 Regional Industrialisation Conference 2026 × PSFU × AGRA × MTIC RIC 2026: The Regional Industrialisation Conference and the Opportunities Within East Africa’s industrialisation agenda is increasingly moving from ambition to implementation. The just concluded 3rd Annual Regional Industrialisation Conference (RIC 2026), held on 18th–19th August 2026 at Kampala Serena Hotel under the theme “Unlocking Industrial Competitiveness through Innovation and Regional Value Chain Integration,” brought together public and private sector stakeholders to examine how innovation, investment, technology and regional value chains can drive industrial transformation. Read the full story → 10 National Cybersecurity Conference 2026 × CINAT Technologies We Are Connecting, But We Should Be Secure Uganda’s digital transformation is accelerating, creating new opportunities for businesses while also increasing exposure to cybersecurity, data protection, operational and technology risks. The inaugural National Cybersecurity Conference 2026, held on Tuesday, 11 August 2026 by Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) at Sheraton Kampala Hotel under the theme “Securing Uganda’s Digital Future: Collaboration, Resilience and Trust,” reinforced an important message for business: cybersecurity is no longer simply an IT concern; it is a business, leadership, governance, reputation and continuity issue. Read the full story → 11 CINAT RAVE · Strategic Retreat 2026 The CINAT RAVE: Breaking Down the Vision CINAT Group held its strategic retreat on 6th–7th August 2026 under the theme “Transformation through Clarity and Strategy,” bringing the team together to reflect on the company’s evolution, strengthen alignment and define a clear path for sustainable growth. Since its establishment in 2019 as an advertising agency, CINAT Group has evolved into a strategy and operations consultancy spanning Advertising, Marketing, Technology, logistics and trade. Read the full story → 12 BeezyLCL Platform × UCCA BeezyLCL Platform Development Gains Momentum Through Industry Consultations The Uganda Cargo Consolidators Association (UCCA), in partnership with CINAT Group Ltd, successfully concluded a two-day stakeholder consultation exercise with cargo consolidators as part of the ongoing development of BeezyLCL — a digital cargo consolidation platform designed to transform the logistics and freight forwarding industry. Read the full story → 13 CleanSIP Campaign × Mandela Washington Fellowship Mandela Day: CINAT Group Supports Safe Drinking Water Through the CleanSIP Initiative CINAT Group joined other partners in supporting the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) Alumni Network in Uganda in celebrating Nelson Mandela Day, headlined by the CleanSIP Campaign — a community-driven initiative aimed at improving access to safe drinking water in schools across Jinja District. The campaign was launched on 14th July 2026 in Kampala, with its flagship implementation carried out at Spire Road Primary School in Jinja District. Read the full story → 14 BeezyLCL Platform × TradeMark Africa × UCCA A Partnership That Puts CINAT Group at the Center of Uganda’s Cargo Tracking Future There is a particular kind of silence that every small importer in Kampala knows by heart. It begins the moment their goods leave a factory floor in Guangzhou or a warehouse in Dubai, and it does not lift until, weeks later, a phone call comes through from a clearing agent with a number attached — this is what you owe, this is when it lands, this is what’s left after everything is paid. In between, there is nothing. No tracking, no running total, no way of knowing whether the shipment is sitting in Mombasa, moving up to the next port, or already parked at a warehouse in Kampala waiting on paperwork nobody has told you about. Read the full story → 15 BeezyLCL Platform × TradeMark Africa × URA TradeMark Africa Funds UCCA’s BeezyLCL Cargo Clearance Platform Uganda’s cargo consolidators are building a digital platform to speed up customs clearance for small importers and to make it harder for unregistered operators to work in the sector. Read the full story → 16 BeezyLCL Platform × Uganda Cargo Consolidators Association (UCCA) CINAT Group and UCCA Consult Stakeholders on BeezyLCL to Improve Cargo Consolidation The Uganda Cargo Consolidators Association (UCCA), in partnership with CINAT Group under its logistics and trade consultancy division, convened a consultative meeting with cargo consolidators and industry stakeholders on Wednesday 15th July 2026 to discuss the BeezyLCL consolidation platform — a digital platform designed to address longstanding challenges in cargo consolidation and trade facilitation — at the UCCA office in Bukoto. Read the full story → 17 BeezyLCL Platform × Traders' Associations (UGIEA, KACITA) CINAT Group Consults Traders' Leaderships on the BeezyLCL Cargo Consolidation Platform CINAT Group Ltd, through its subsidiary CINAT Technologies and in partnership with the Uganda Groupage Importers and Exporters Association (UGIEA) and Pinnisoft Company Ltd, convened a stakeholder engagement meeting with key union leaders of traders' associations on 14th July 2026 at Hotel Triangle to introduce the BeezyLCL platform — an innovative digital solution designed to transform Uganda's consolidated cargo import and clearance process. Read the full story → 18 Clean SIP Campaign × Mandela Washington Fellowship Clean Water for Every School Child in Jinja CINAT Group has strengthened its commitment to corporate social responsibility by joining the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) Alumni Association of Uganda as the Strategic PR and Media partner for the Clean SIP Campaign, the fellowship’s initiative to commemorate this year’s Mandela Day. Read the full story →