Nixon's cross-border launch ZAMBIA'S CALL for huge supplies of maize from South Africa has coincided with P D Nixon Containers' decision to move into cross-border transport, and has provided a springboard for the new service, says director Bruce Foord. The company's first consignment was loaded on trailers in Carletonville last week and trucked through Zimbabwe to Ndola and Kitwe in the northern sector of Zambia. "The good news," says Foord," is that we have managed to land a contract to bring back timber sheets from Zambia, ensuring full loads in both directions." The company, hitherto restricted to the movement of refurbished second-hand containers to various parts of South Africa, took the decision to move into the full transport field with cross-border operations their target, when they were joined at the beginning of this month by transport manager Andre Fourie. The former owner of Sub-Sahara Transport has specialised in cross border trips. Abnormal loads were his speciality and he was later to move into the transportation of hazardous cargo in a private sector contract to Malawi.
