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.