Preclearance along the entire route the objective
RAY SMUTS
SIBLINGS MAY be as different as day and night but Shilo Freight and Logistics and sister company Image Freight and Logistics conform in the sense they share the same dedication to meeting the requirements of a growing clientele at customs clearing, forwarding and across-border transportation levels.
In the short period of its existence, says Shilo’s manager Shaun Maharajh, Shilo has achieved “tremendous growth” in servicing the customs clearing and forwarding requirements of its clientele.
“Having successfully expanded from overborder road transport provided by Image, a need arose for warehousing facilities and local harbour carrier transport.
“This has been successfully met and we now provide a complete in-house logistics service, offering customs clearing, forwarding, former harbour and over-border transport and warehousing.”
Maharajh is convinced of the need for “partnership arrangements” with clearing and forwarding organisations at the country’s borders, a factor which has within Shilo’s target market, become a “burning need.”
Shilo is currently engaged in an active drive to secure partnership agreements with independent organisations within this market, thereby fulfilling the company’s aim of offering a true one-stop shopping concept to the overborder market. The personalised, hands-on, approach, he asserts, reigns supreme.
“Effectively, shipments will be pre-cleared along the entire route, eliminating customer problems of having to subscribe to multi-company handling over the route. Shipping managers have more important issues to deal with than tracking and clearing shipments so Shilo will take care of all their hassles.”
Maharajh is encouraged by the expansion of Shilo’s export forwarding division to which he is able to bring considerable expertise, having been involved for several years in ocean freight as shipping manager for two large exporters.
He challenges exporters to approach Shilo for seafreight quotes, confident in the knowledge they will be “pleasantly surprised” at the favourable rates on offer.
