JVC launches streamlined new logistics option for reefer cargo

The Durban road freight brokerage services company, JVC Freight Carriers, has just opened a new niche market in association with one of its road transport partners, according to MD Raj Maistry. This, he told FTW, cuts out the use of cold stores in the reefer (refrigerated) container supply chain, a significant logistics cost saving. “We were very excited that a road transport partner had acquired 22 generator sets (gensets) for transporting reefer containers,” Maistry added. “Before, all chilled or frozen cargoes had to go to a cold store, and then be transferred into reefer trucks for the haul to their destination. But now we can pick up the reefer cargo container right from the source’s door and transport it direct to its destination while keeping it suitably chilled all the way along the delivery route.” JVC Freight has recorded substantial growth in its 19-year history. “This company success,” said Maistry, “was primarily due to every transport need in the everincreasing and demanding transport logistics industry being supplied by one organisation.” Signalling its successful development, JVC Freight fulfils the conditions of the ISO 9001:2008 quality management system standard, has a level two broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) rating, and is a member of the Durban Harbour Carriers’ Association (DHCA) section of the SA Association of Freight Forwarders. It conducts domestic and overborder logistics, distribution and transportation.