Double celebration - all smiles at the launch of The Cargo Connection’s new trucking service and the celebration, of its tenth anniversary, from the left Jan van der Berg, Impson Freight; Sheena Arnold, TCC; Igor Jovanovic, TCC Distribution and Pieter Erasmus, LWW. Leonard Neill THE CARGO Connection (TCC) has launched a nationwide trucking system offering a door-to-airport service with worldwide connections where required - and all because of the problems which a locally-based trucker faced delivering 120tons of equipment to Johannesburg International Airport using a single eight-ton vehicle. “That made us realise there was a pressing need for a trucking service that went right to the supplier’s door,” says TCC sales and marketing manager Karen Mitchell. “The contracted trucker had to make far too many round trips to complete the loading onto scheduled flights and a chartered aircraft. So we decided it was time to do something about helping the exporters in these circumstances.” While other trucking services in the country operate strictly on an airport-to-airport basis, TCC elected to go one step further and offer door-to-airport deliveries, serving Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and introducing East London which is currently served only by SAA Cargo. “We already have a full trucking service available to us from Brussels to anywhere in Europe, so by linking the new operation, we can collect from the supplier anywhere in South Africa, deliver to JIA, have the goods flown to Brussels or any other point in Europe, and then have them trucked to their destination,” says Mitchell. “We’ve introduced it into the TCC GSA portfolio as a value-added service to the supply chain agents. It means one service provider from point of origin to point of consumption.” The service, registered as TCC Distribution, was announced at the 10th anniversary gathering of TCC on September 17. Apart from serving the needs of coastal shippers, local collections and deliveries are available to Gauteng. A fleet of four- and eight ton vehicles are utilised along with Superlinks and flat deck interlinks. All trucks are equipped with web-based satellite tracking.
