Iain McIntosh, regional sales

Past
The single encompassing change
for me is the innovation and
globalisation that container
shipping has brought through
constantly lowering the costs of
linking markets. This has come
about through economies of scale
[vessel size] and provision of vast
carrier networks linking even the
smallest markets. This has simply
brought the cost of doing business
in any market to an absolute
minimum.
Future
I want to see the barriers of entry
to trade and red tape intra Africa
removed as much as possible. It is
a crying shame that when looking
at Africa container throughput
[import/export] only 2-3% of
container volume is coming from
intra-Africa trade, with the balance
from international markets.
African markets are seeing
increasingly larger and larger ship
systems which can easily facilitate
intra-regional growth.