Fairseas set to grow Gauteng market

With a footstep already firmly printed
in the region’s coastal ports, the
shipping and freight logistics
specialist, Fairseas International,
has gone on the expansion path and
opened a Johannesburg office.
“Our operation, providing
regional seafreight and landside
services around Africa and services
focused on seafreight chartering
and brokering activities, has been
going from strength to strength,”
said founder and company director,
Liam McKenzie. “This everexpanding
service has motivated
the Johannesburg move – with the
express intention of commercial
development of the Gauteng and
surrounding regions.”
Now a youthful veteran of SA
shipping, Pamela Yerushalmy has
moved in as commercial executive to
conduct this development operation.
“We seek to provide value
by providing cost-effective sea
transport and intermodal solutions
along the African seaboard and the
Indian Ocean rim – including the
Indian Ocean Island areas,” said
Yerushalmy.
Amongst the services,
Fairseas operates its self-operated
tonnage – taking the form of the
9 600-metric tonne deadweight
project vessel, the Cornhill.
She offers a breakbulk and bulk
liner service in the Walvis Bay to
Mombasa range of ports – with
a heavy-lift capacity suitable for
moving project cargoes, as well as
providing regular sailings for handy
size shipments of bulk commodities
in and out of the East African, Red
Sea and sub-continent areas.
“But,” said McKenzie, “the
services we offer would best be
described as taking anything,
anywhere, anytime.”
“Apart from that,” he added, “we’ll
also accept project cargoes and
consignments for overborder delivery
into hinterland countries like Uganda
in the south-east to Burkina Faso in
the north-west.
While it is looking to further
develop niche opportunities in the
region and abroad, Mozambique
remains an area of focus – Fairseas
expecting to have 25 vessel port calls
there this year alone.
With the subsidiary operation,
Mozport Mozambique, Fairseas
is able to offer tailored seafreight
and landside solutions on the
Maputo corridor and elsewhere in
Mozambique – including transit
C&F agency services, arrangement
and facilitation of physical packing
operations and various cargo
management services.