Volumes flow into SACD’s new high-security warehouse

SACD Freight is confident that its recently completed high-security warehouse at City Deep will be operating at full capacity by the end of this month. “The year has started on a very positive note,” regional director Dennis Trotter told FTW, “and volumes are looking good.” The new 5 000-sqm facility, comprising two 2 500-sqm sites, was developed to cater for minerals moving into Africa. Consolidating commodities from the DRC and Zambia at City Deep, containerising them and transporting them to ship’s stack is one of the company’s core focus markets. Based on growing customer demand for secure warehousing capacity at City Deep early last year, SACD embarked on an expansion programme and the final touches to the warehouse were completed at the end of last year. While volumes tend to be fairly volatile, influenced largely by the world economy and its impact on commodity prices, SACD believes it is well placed to capitalise on expected future growth. Scanning and bar-coding facilities are part and parcel of the high-tech security systems that the facility offers. CAPTION Dennis Trotter ... new 5 000-sqm facility was developed to cater for minerals moving into Africa.