When it comes to security in Africa, you need to do your homework and monitor the risk profile of every country, says Chapman Freeborn’s Heinz Lange. “There is no one size fits all solution when it comes to the security of express airfreight into Africa. Good partners on the ground who can monitor situations and give clear indications of what is happening are essential. This allows one to make decisions based on the current environment, the commodity being moved and where it is being freighted to and from.” Lange said Chapman Freeborn arranged charters across Africa all the time and could do so at very short notice without much worry around security. “That is because we keep our fingers on the pulse, have good partners and operate on a global network,” he said. The company also offers a weekly freight service connecting Johannesburg to Entebbe in Uganda and Mwanza in Tanzania and another from Johannesburg to Lubumbashi in the DRC via Kinshasa.
