Facilitating after-hours deliveries

Having a stock of containers
on site enables Hararebased
Alro Transport to deliver
empties to clients over weekends
and after hours.
Alro keeps a stock of
containers primarily for Mitsui
OSK Lines and Ignazio Messina,
for which sister company Alro
Shipping is the Zimbabwean
agent.
“We also store containers for
other lines for which we handle
the forwarding,” says Rob
Follett-Smith, director of Alro
Shipping.
The company has established
an empty container park in
Msasa, Harare.
“Shipping lines find that
having a stock of containers
here adds flexibility to their
services. In addition to afterhours
deliveries we act as a backup
during power outages and
breakdowns at the other main
container yards,” he says.