Major progress in transformation at Cargo Carriers

Cargo Carriers has increased
its BBBEE score from a Level
7 to a Level 4 logistics service
provider in the past four years,
marketing director Andre van
Vuuren told FTW.
The logistics and
supply chain industry is
placing increased focus
on transformation and the
company’s long-term plan
has been to raise its BEE
score, not just for the sake of
compliance, but in order to
win more business and create
a greater capacity for growth,
he said. “In order to do this,
years ago Cargo Carriers
formed a BEE committee to
launch the company into a
new age of compliance.”
The reason for the
increased score has a lot to
do with skills and enterprise
development programmes,
as well as a commitment to
social development in the
communities in which the
company operates, said
Van Vuuren.
“The company promotes
education, training,
employment equity, and the
creation and mentoring of
small businesses in order to
make a lasting contribution
to the industry. These
programmes have been put in
place both for compliance and
the overall good it does for the
business and for the country.”
Skills development was
by far Cargo Carriers’ most
improved score, rising
from 5.6 in 2010 to 15, the
maximum amount of points
that can be awarded.
“In terms of equitybased
empowerment,” says
Boitumelo Choche, group
audit and risk manager,
“we have set up and now
support a number of ownerdriver
businesses, and have
established several industryfocused
and empowered
businesses with previously
disadvantaged industry
participants.”
Through various social
development programmes,
the company achieved the
maximum of five points in the
socio-economic development
section of the scorecard.
This was done through a
contribution to HIV testing
and mobile clinics for all staff.