INDEPENDENTLY OWNED container handling company Cape Town Cargo Terminal (CTCT) has been granted a licence by South African Revenue Services to handle uncleared (overstay) containers and to carry out customs and other governmental examinations.
It forms part of the company's drive to increase its presence in the market through additional services, says CTCT c.e.o. Johan Lombard.
Rob Brown, backed by 25 years of experience in the container depot industry, has been appointed depot manager. His immediate task is to oversee the full (cleared) container handling and storage operation, and reefer container handling, storage and repair, as well as PPECB approved container husbandry such as washing and pre-trip inspections. The depot has 130 reefer plug-in points.
Perishables requiring cold storage holding, bonded and duty paid storage of cargo as well as export consolidations are handled at the 4 400 sq m Island Centre warehouse. Plans are afoot, however, to construct a 'state of the art' warehouse at the company's Maitland Container Park premises during the first quarter of 2000.
The depot has a 25-truck capacity rail siding running into the recently opened Rail Hub facility. This allows for direct railing of empty containers to inland pack houses, the transfer of part unpacked LCL containers onto rail to Johannesburg, and the staging of export containers where Portnet stacks are not as yet opened.
During the past six months a purpose designed, computerised, full colour container tracking system, named Tracker 2000, has been developed, giving instant tracking details on all container movements.
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