Billy Rodrigues has been appointed managing director of the Mozambique and Malawi regions for the Bridge Shipping Group and will head up the company’s new facility in Beira, Mozambique. With 23 years’ experience in the container depot field in South Africa, he has also been involved in freight forwarding in Beira for the past seven years. “The Bridge Shipping Group was one of the first tobacco agents in Beira. The new facility, comprising a 7 200 sqm warehouse and 8 000 sqm yard, and due for completion at the end of September, is close to the Port of Beira. This makes it ideally situated to service import and export customers in Mozambique as well as the neighbouring countries,” says Colin Emanuel, CEO of the Bridge Shipping Group. CAPTION Billy Rodrigues … facility to be completed by end September.