Big contracts in the pipeline for Gojo

AN EXPANDING service portfolio is key to staying ahead in the highly competitive clearing and forwarding market. “We now offer warehousing space which forms part of our related diversification plans for growth in 2008,” says JP Mesquita, MD of Gojo Cargo. Gojo moved into its new premises in Isando in August last year and is keen to capitalise on its close airport access in 2008. “We get to rub shoulders with some very large companies,” says Mesquita. The new location with 750m2 warehousing will assist in growing the forwarding and clearing side of the business. “In July last year we moved 133 containers of motor vehicles out of China,” says Mesquita. “From next March, we stand to be awarded a contract to move over 120 fortyfoot containers per month into South Africa. We are going to be very busy, but we are ready for whatever comes our way.” The company is involved in the export of live trees to the Middle East and China, on an ongoing basis, a market Mesquita intends to grow in 2008. “Angola and Nigeria have also been good markets for us and we hope to pick up more business on these routes.”