Industrial park continues to draw strong support

A new industrial park in Kwa Zulu
Natal – with a strategic location
close to Dube TradePort and King
Shaka Airport – is still “selling like hot
cakes”, according to SA investor Paul
Izzard, partner in Index Property Services
and Amber Dawn Developments, which
is developing and marketing the property.
The combine of UK and SA investors
is busy developing the two-phase
Imbonini industrial park in Ballito north
of Durban – a 10-minute drive from the
new international and its accompanying
tradeport development.
Phase 1 of the development –
consisting of serviced industrial sites
from 1 500 to 20 000 m2 in a fully
fenced park with 24-hour security and
access control – was completed last July,
and is 80% sold. Izzard and partner Ed
Peen expect the balance to sell out this
year.
The developers, Izzard added,
are gearing up to start the civils on
Phase 2 – with a total platform area
of 450 000 m2 and double the size of
Phase 1.
“Although we are still busy selling
phase one, we also have phase two out
on the market,” Izzard told FTW, “and
we have had a substantial number of
enquiries flooding in.”
New container supply division
opens in Durban
BLG Lead Logistics expands its portfolio
There is a new force in container supply,
leasing and conversion in Durban, as BLG
Lead Logistics launches BLG Container
Sales & Leasing as a specialist division in
this marketplace.
Heading up the operation is Wesley
Turk, who is confident that the groundwork
has been established to allow the company
to effectively compete in the SA market for
the sale, leasing and customised conversion
of both new and used marine containers.
The start of BLG’s national network has
been established, with branches in Durban,
East London and Port Elizabeth. “We can
supply from these branches to anywhere in
the country,” said Turk, “but we going to
grow until we can justify being represented
in all the other regions.”
With a focus on the company’s
customised conversion division, Turk
pointed to BLG having developed
workshop facilities in its fully-fitted East
London depot.
“The next aim,” he said, “is to develop
similar facilities in Durban, and supply the
whole country with conversions from these
two sources.”
And BLG is not only sticking to the
basics when it comes to conversions.
“We can convert new and used, 20-foot
or 40-ft, standard or refrigerated (reefer)
containers,” said Turk. “The only limit is
the customer’s imagination – with a choice
of customised boxes serving as offices,
accommodation and ablution units, spaza
shops, phone booths, machine control
booths, workshops, reefers (in both blast
freezer and cold room formats) and the
like.”
The market is equally widespread, he
added, but tends to be mostly to customers
in the retail chains and land-based industry.
“Big construction companies are also
major customers,” said Turk, “with a big
demand for on-site offices, tools storage
and ablutions, for example.
“We also supply extensive delivery
facilities for moving the boxes, using crane
trucks, for instance, for delivery and offloading
direct on to site.”