If you suffer from the frustrations of having trucks queuing at the port container terminals to collect or deliver containers, why not add a rail option to your service offering, says Value Group CEO, Steven Gottschalk. Value’s intermodal division provides the freight industry and importers and exporters in SA with an alternative to road transport by utilising and managing the Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) service, he told FTW. The service provided includes the processing of all documentation as well as the railage of full and empty containers from Transnet port terminals to TFR terminals, and the local cartage services in all the major cities. “Rail helps to make our national roads safer, by reducing the number of heavy vehicles travelling on them,” Gottschalk added. “The N3 highway between Durban and Johannesburg, for example, is one of the most dangerous, with serious accidents involving trucks happening nearly every day. Also carbon emissions from the trucks are seriously affecting our atmosphere. So, the more containers that are railed, the less pollution is released into the air.” Value’s branch network is located throughout the country, and in Windhoek, Namibia and Gaborone, Botswana.
