Domestic intermodal is key

A domestic intermodal
transport system will go a
long way in addressing South
Africa’s logistics costs which
are rated among the highest
in the world, according to
Professor Jan Havenga,
director of the Centre for
Supply Chain Management
in the department of logistics
at Stellenbosch University.
Across the world
shippers continue to take
an integrated approach to
transport, moving cargo via
rail, truck, air and sea in
the most economical ways
possible – and moving away
from reliance on any one
mode.
According to Havenga, in
most first world countries
the most successful
integration has been with
rail. It is also by far the
biggest intermodal growth
sector.