‘Professionalism will keep Nepad momentum moving’

KEVIN MAYHEW
AGREEMENTS MADE to meet economic cooperation and growth objectives of the Southern African Development Community (Sadec) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) have underpinned a rapidly expanding inter-African transport grid.
Managing director of Johannesburg-based Afrilogix, Nisa Dawood, says it is for African countries to use this window of opportunity for expansion to establish world standard freight, forwarding and warehousing capacity to make the continent a global player. Afrilogix provides freight solutions into Africa, India and the Middle East.
“We have seen a lot of freighting activity as countries have drawn on South African mining and rail transport manufacturing, maintenance and installation expertise for instance. Africa must not let the window close when the need to deliver and install heavy equipment and infrastructure to parts of Africa which are traditionally off the radar screen finally wanes.
“We need to put freight specific professionals in place throughout the continent to maintain these new links and use them to open up and expand the economies of the areas they service by growing service and other industries,” explains Dawood.
Dawood says Afrilogix has been involved in freighting into areas as far north as the Sudan, including deliveries for major projects involving Spoornet since the company was established in 2002.