Turnover reaches R12-m in nine years

SRP finds a niche in clearing and forwarding sector CLIVE EMDON SMALL CLEARING and forwarding agents have carved a niche for themselves despite large groups dominating the field. One of these is SRP Shipping, which provides a wide range of shipping and road services for imports and exports to and from South Africa as well as transit cargo on the Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe routes. With offices in Durban and Johannesburg, the company handles a variety of commercial goods, raw materials and chemicals, garden and farming equipment and used cars. A former operations manager for Kuehne & Nagel, Ryan Appannah and partner Siva Naiker, jointly with nearly 40 years experience, started SRP Shipping nine years ago. Today, with a staff of 18, the company has an annual turnover of some R12-million. Its blue chip client list includes the likes of Unilever Bestfoods and pharmaceutical companies Adcock Ingram and Bayer. SRP’s most routine freight operations include 350-tons of commercial shipping cargo a week through Durban and 66-tons a week by road to Blantyre in Malawi. Its largest project to date was the movement of an entire power station to Mauritius for the French group Babcock enterprise, working with Transport Paris International (TPI).