DCL passes on benefits of volume discounts

Streamlining customer’s business WHEN IT comes to getting the best deal for your client, size is an issue. And for Direct Container Line, the largest NVOCC from the US to South Africa, it translates into lower rates. The company, which offers a neutral consolidation and FCL service from any point in the United States to South Africa, can pass on the benefits of its volume-based contracts with shipping lines to its customers in the form of a competitive rates structure, says Claude Nuttall, Cape Town-based director of agent United Maritime Logistics. Volume incentives to select wholesale customers are offered on a select basis. But it’s not only the lower rates that make the difference, says Nuttall. It’s the added value services like the online Track ‘N Trace system that offers customers valuable information about their shipments at the touch of a button, 24 hours a day, that help to streamline the customer’s business. And this ultimately impacts positively on the bottom line.