NVOCC looks at imports after first year of growth

AT THE end of its first year of operation, NVOCC Freight Services has recorded twelve months of continual growth, according to company director Lynn Quinn. Durban and Johannesburg have shown the most significant growth, she told FTW, but all the offices, including Cape Town, have had to keep adding staff to keep up with an upward trend in export groupage volumes. "At first we were co-loading for all three offices, but we now have the volumes for each branch to do its own groupage consignments," said Francois Collinson, who has just joined the Johannesburg office to handle sales, while fellow new appointee Joeleen van der Westhuizen is driving operations. "Of our various destinations the Far East, Africa and the UK are the star performers," Collinson said. "But all the other routes are showing slow-but-steady growth as well." The burgeoning SA export market has been the concentration up to now, but continuing enquiries from export clients looking for import groupage have seen the company casting a focus on the potential in the import market. "However, our business drive is still aimed at exports," he said.