Overnight service to Botswana
ALAN PEAT
A VITAL factor in developing the African freight industry is increasing communication between the countries and the exchange of information, according to Claude Theys, MD of SDV transami (SDVt) and regional director for the Southern Africa region.
“We are actively involved in this,” he told FTW, “helping to maximise our buying power and ensuring competitive rates and total customer satisfaction.”
In Africa, the SDV group is a major economic and social force, Theys added, having offices in 37 countries in Africa and 85 worldwide. This rates them as a leading company in the transport sector, but also offering stevedoring and port services in various countries in Africa.
“This extensive network allows us to offer a reliable and integrated service to our clients,” he said, “with a complete door-to-door service internationally within
our own group - by air, sea, road and rail.”
The road freight department at SDVt offers an overnight service
to Botswana and weekly road consolidations to all Southern African destinations - as well as the transport of full truckloads both into and out of Africa.
“Our road bond facility,”
said Theys, “opens the Durban corridor to the neighbouring countries - and from SA into the African continent.”
SDVt also has a bonded warehouse in the Johannesburg office complex, and its activities include a dedicated logistics team for commodities such as cotton, tobacco, tea, copper and cobalt.
It has a full projects team concentrating on mining and road works projects within Africa.
