TCS sets up specialist project division

A developing skill in handling project cargoes has encouraged TCS Freight to start promoting this sort of cargo movement as a new discipline in the company, according to MD Rogan Brent. This focus on project cargo is now helping to occupy the transport and logistics division’s fleet of specialised project cargo trailers, he told FTW. “We now have 17 lowbed stepdeck loaders,” he added, “ranging from 30 to 47-tonne load capacity. “We also have other well-deck loaders, ranging from 55-75-t.” These haul cargoes on the Durban-Johannesburg route – and to anywhere in the sub-Saharan area, according to Brent. The company has developed a specialised sector working on project cargoes, and the experience to date has been highly satisfactory, he added. This has included the Sakonia project for a mine in the Copper Belt; and sections and structures for a bridge on the Ndola to Sakania road in Zambia. There has also been the movement of four Terex 240 excavators, each in 38 loads, from Durban to the Fungurume mine in Tenke in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “These,” said Brent, “were intended for the excavation of this principal mine in the region.” TCS was also responsible for moving all the construction machinery for the Lusaka to Choma road in Zambia – a project consignment including more than 60 tippers and road rollers.