New outsourcing option from factory to final destination
LEONARD NEILL
THE TEAM of Naidoo and Naidu is back heading
up the development of recently formed South
African Inland Logistics (Sa-il) in the business of
total landside movement of cargo with cross-border
operations included.
When Roland Naidoo and Gerald Naidu
withdrew from the scene five years ago following
the restructuring of the company they were running
at the time, they faded from the business scene
– but only on a temporary basis. “We took a good
look at the situation for the next two years before
deciding to go it alone and develop a new concept in
freighting,” says Roland Naidoo.
Heading up the new company formed three years
ago as its chief executive, Naidoo retained Gerald
Naidu as his right hand man in a two-man work
force which offers 40 years experienced between
them. Naidu is now marketing manager of (SA-il).
His task is building new business, with Arvin
Dadassey appointed as operations manager and
Denolan Naidoo the cartage manager controlling a
fleet of vehicles.
“We’ve seen a positive and happy growth that
has come about through service levels and quality
performance,” says the CEO. “It’s simply a case of
focusing on what we can do and executing the job to
the satisfaction of our customers. We run a 7-days-aweek
operation, sending containers by road and rail
long distances with a competent string of sub-agents
inland and across the borders. We are also involved in
setting up own offices in major centres.”
A new development in their service has been to
take up the reins where companies want to outsource
their movables business, leaving it in the hands of
others to take the goods from factory to their final
destination.
One of the country’s leading manufacturers of
domestic toilet and household goods opened up this
avenue to SA-il. “It was a tough call but we have
done it to their full satisfaction,” says Naidoo.
“Instead of them having to go the former
breakbulk method of sending consignments from
Gauteng to other destinations for example, we have
set up a two-tier operation in Johannesburg. We
move in our own team with 6m skeletal trailers to
move the stacks to the loading point when they
are packed into containers. This is done under full
inspection and photographed for the producer’s
records. Then the containers move in our longdistance
vehicles for delivery to either ports or depots
elsewhere as required.”
