CTC focuses purely on Western Cape

BEE initiative in place
RAY SMUTS
CAPE TOWN-based clearing and forwarding veteran Hans Duncker of CTC Worldwide Logistics has a totally different take on the concept of black empowerment and what it can achieve in the way of doing business. The 18-month-old enterprise, probably one of the newest in the Mother City, will be black-empowered by the time this supplement sees the light of day but Duncker, currently sole director of the company, insists it will be BEE of a different kind. “The real, true BEE is not where someone comes and pays money (often millions of rand) to sit at the boardroom table once a month but BEE from within.” In the case of CTC Worldwide Logistics, current operations manager Luigi Maree – a long-time former cohort of Duncker - and others in the current six-member team will each receive a certain number of shares through a trust, Maree to be elevated to the post of operations director. What makes CTC Worldwide Logistics rather different is that it focuses entirely on doing business in the Western Cape for now (no other branches anywhere else). Indeed its entire customer base of around 45 is based in this province. Western Cape GM for Hellmann for three years, Duncker previously ran his own Johannesburg-based business, CTC Cargo Transport Company. The “new” CTC was formed in September 2004. Happily ensconced in comfortable city-centre premises, Duncker asserts: “We are purely a logistics company, involved in perishables, fruit juice concentrates, paper and wine exports - the latter accounting for up to 50% of total exports - dry cargo, imports and exports and seafreight and airfreight.” Back to the subject of black empowerment, Duncker asserts: “A lot of our customers require BEE accreditation. Once that is granted I would say our turnover will increase by at least 50%-60%.” He points out too that CTC Worldwide Logistics is conscious of a substantial number of German companies with large South African government contracts in the making for which his company certainly intends tendering.