Recent regime changes in South Africa and Zimbabwe could be the biggest game changer for the cross-border road freight industry this year, creating massive trading opportunities.
CFR Freight is “hopeful” that this will also address the current bureaucratic chaos that currently exists at the Musina and Beitbridge border posts – and result in improved transit through Zimbabwe.
“Basically any change that eases trade restrictions would go a long way to increasing trade and assisting transporters to reduce turn time on round trips, improving fleet efficiency,” said CFR roadfreight manager, Hilton Tait. Tait told FTW that while there were challenges with road freight, particularly over-border, CFR took pains to help its customers optimise costs and efficiencies on land transport.
“For overborder purposes we want customers to remember we are a neutral consolidator who can offer a one-stop solution covering the entire Southern African Development Community (SADC) and BLNS region.”
He said that CFR customers had one drop-off point utilising the ZacPak container freight stations where they would also be able to deal with one operator.
“This, combined with our volumes, will mean that we can harness our buying power and pass on some of the savings to our customers,” Tait said.
“We also have transit cargo that is moving in bond as RIT|RIB loads and this has added to the available domestic volumes that are moving cross border,” he added.
The company offers named-day consolidation services to Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi and a premium daily over-border express roadfreight option from Johannesburg into the BLNS countries (Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland).
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CFR offers named-day consolidation services to Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. – Hilton Tait
