Road Freight Association CEO, Gavin Kelly, has reiterated his appeal that key routes used for supply chain in South Africa’s unrest-affected areas be secured to allow for safe logistical operations.
“Our message is clear: we require securing of all main routes to allow us to move safely.”
It’s imperative, Kelly emphasised, that security services encircle and snuff out the hotspots.
“We also require protection of all logistics assets, for example distribution centres, warehouses, harbour environs, malls, retail and similar facilities.”
Nothing short of ring-fenced security was required before the full and intensified resumption of logistics to devastated areas could take place, Kelly said.
Earlier this week, following an interview on a prominent radio show, Kelly stressed that safeguarding key highways, such as the N3 and N2, should be extended to regional routes and related logistical facilities.
“Providing as much protection as possible for the entire supply-chain system is a case of protecting the logistical umbilical cords,” he said. “It doesn’t help to secure a route and we move to warehouses and retailers that will just be looted again and again.”
