‘Genetically programmed forwarder’ opens new company

Mercury Freight may be the newest kid on the freight forwarding block, but its owner and managing director Margrit Wolff is not. Having built a successful career in freight, she has taken on the challenge of starting a new forwarding business that opened its doors for trade on June 1. “It was really an extremely easy decision to make to start a new company despite everyone telling me that we are facing some very difficult economic times and that the market is tough, because this is very much a part of me. I have to be involved in freight,” she told FTW. Wolff considers herself a ‘genetically programmed’ forwarder. At the age of 27, already employed in the freight forwarding industry, the former nurse found that her father had been a forwarder in Germany before the World War “It has been a very rejuvenating and amazing process to start this new venture and I would recommend it to anyone who is up for a challenge and in need of change,” she said. With its head office in Johannesburg, the company already has a staff of 13, with offices in Durban and Cape Town. “Our main focus will be on general cargo, but we will also be focusing on the Far East and project cargo while we plan to enter the small parcel market as well.” INSERT ‘Our main focus will be on general cargo, but we will also be focusing on the Far East and project cargo.’ CAPTION Margrit Wolff … ‘I have to be involved in freight.’