New branch manager set to grow volumes

Independent groupage
operator CFR Freight
is upbeat about
its Western Cape
operations following the
appointment
of Tracie
Pelser as its
new branch
manager.
She brings
significant
logistics and
supply chain
expertise to
the position
which she
took up in
November last
year.
Her focus, said CFR
managing director Martin
Keck, was to grow volumes
and to take operational
excellence to even higher
levels.
After an excellent 2015,
Keck said the company was
confident that 2016 would
be an even better year in the
Western Cape.
“Although
forecasting
is becoming
more and
more difficult
in the current
global and
domestic
political and
economic
climate,” he
said.
CFR
had seen
continuous growth in its
direct services from the
Far East into Cape Town
and believed the company
could increase volumes even
further on this route in
particular, he added.
In an effort to streamline
operations the company
will be moving into new
premises in Epping in
Cape Town along with its
subsidiary ZacPak.
“Bringing air and
seafreight under one roof
makes it far more efficient,”
he said.
Jerome Wolhuter, who
heads up ZacPak in Cape
Town, told FTW that the
Epping facility had been
chosen to cater for the
forecast growth in the Cape
Town region.
“The facility lends itself to
greater operational f low and
efficiency.”
Wolhuter said the move
to Epping would result
in quicker turnaround
times on the inbound and
outbound legs.
“The strategic
move to offer a
ground handling
operation
in Epping
will result in
far greater
efficiencies
in container
handling
processes and
will give our
clients swifter
access to
imported goods,”
said Willie Nel,
Johannesburg
ZacPak MD.
Stephen
Bishop, head of
CFR’s airfreight
division, said the improved
infrastructure was set to
benefit all departments of
the business.
INSERT & CAPTION
CFR has seen
continuous growth
in its direct services
from the Far East into
Cape Town.
– Martin Keck
CAPTION
Tracie Pelser, CFR branch manager,
Western Cape.