CHC expands national warehousing facilities

A strong logistics infrastructure is key to success in the container industry. According to Reshaan Laljith, CEO of CHC Resources, the location of the company’s warehouses in Johannesburg (Greenhills and Pomona), Durban and Cape Town, have played a major role in its growth. “While CHC Global, a distributor of bulk inorganic chemicals in the southern African region, along with CHC Films and CHC Polymerworld have played a major role in the company’s success, we are especially proud of CHC Container Depot that has managed to become a major competitor within a year of being launched.” The CHC Container Depot System provides logistics, track and trace, warehousing, storage, administration and billing. “We developed the entire concept around our clients’ needs and as a result the system encompasses the entire process – from notification of pending arrival, pick up, delivery, unpacking and storage to release, calculation of charges and invoicing. “We have seen such growth that already we have had to upgrade our premises in Cape Town where we have now identified new warehousing facilities in Montague Gardens. The 14000sqm new warehouse premises are situated approximately 5km from the container terminal and provide the necessary additional space.” Due to increased growth in third party warehousing and logistics, the company has also had to increase capacity in other regions. “In Johannesburg we have doubled our size up to 25000sqm and in Durban we’ve increased to 30000sqm.” For the future, CHC is looking at opening branches in sub Saharan Africa, said Laljith. “We, like many others, feel that the next growth will happen in the African continent.” He says already large multinational companies are expanding into southern Africa. “Walmart is one example. We do however need to work on our infrastructure as well as the way business is done around our borderporsts where bribery and corruption is still rife and must be rooted out.”