Zambia tops the growth list for specialist logistics operator

TRANSPORT INTO Africa is the main business target for Interlogix – a specialised agent focused on transit traffic to various African destinations, according to company director, Thomas Sage. “Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and anywhere else our clients may require,” he said. Durban-based Interlogix is a black economic empowerment (BEE) compliant company, also registered with customs at Richards Bay for project cargoes, and by customs in Johannesburg. From its extensive list of African destinations, Zambia has proven to be one of the most productive areas for the company in recent times, and now generates a significant amount of business for Interlogix. According to Sage, this country has grown significantly in the last few years, with huge development taking place, and Interlogix has had a fair share of the project work into Zambia. Project highlights of the year so far have been the movement of a 4 865m3, 3 548-ton cement plant, which took 129 loads to carry it to its destination in Zambia’s Copperbelt. The company has another project in process at the moment, again bound for the Copperbelt – a cargo measuring 2 615-m3 and weighing 493-t, and one which Sage calculates will require 27 loads, most of them 4-m wide. “We have the proven ability to coordinate large projects shipped in one bottom,” he told FTW, “minimising port storage and transit time. “Naturally projects are not sustainable work throughout the year and so we also do a lot of work for the mining industry in Zambia – with several big brands using us exclusively for movement of their machinery into that country.”