Spoornet partnership will double chemical capacity

Working smarter delivers the goods JOY ORLEK SPOORNET HAS entered into a strategic partnership with Sasol aimed at doubling capacity for the transport of chemicals in the next three years to 1mt. “We don’t have enough assets, and the collaborative effort is about optimising what we have,” CEO Siyabonga Gama told FTW at the official launch of the partnership in Johannesburg last week. And this is not the only customer where collaborative partnerships are being forged, he said. Both Spoornet and Sasol have agreed to contract on a take or pay basis for the 2005/2006 fiscal year. This will be run on a trial basis initially, with volume reconciliations and payments due agreed and recorded monthly. These will be reconciled at year-end although no actual payout will be made for 2005/2006. If it proves practical and effective, it will be adopted from the 2006/7 fiscal year. The analysis and design process has been completed and now the theory needs to be implemented, Sasol Solvents MD Otto Pepler told FTW. Crucial to its success is the buy-in of all supply chain stakeholders who have been involved with route cause analysis and redesign to ensure the viability of the solutions.