With a relatively new foot in the door in Cape Town, GMA Logistics is determined to expand its business in the Mother City and surrounding Cape Province. “We have a wellestablished presence in SA,” said company director Frans Smith, “having previously traded as GM Arcache Shipping, until we became a blackempowered company and rebranded as GMA Logistics. “However, we are a fairly new player in Cape Town, having purchased a company in the city only two years ago. But now we’ve appointed Ernest Burger as our new branch manager there, and we hope that he is the man who will lead us into the future.” Burger, who was previously with Sturrock Shipping in the Cape, commented: “We are busy putting in added infrastructure, which is aimed at cornering niche markets in the city.” An example of this development is a bonded/ excise facility to give the company access to the province’s wine industry, a product which Burger suggested few forwarding operations have to offer.
