Zambian copper is big business

LEONARD NEILL COAL TAR fuel has now joined the ever increasing loose coal deliveries which Edenvale-based United Global Logistics is moving to Zimbabwe and Malawi, and that in itself is a project which creates special requirements, says managing director Caston Dutuma. It has to be handled with utmost care in both pouring and transporting in tankers, with four or five trucks a week providing the service. At the same time the loose coal contract of 3800 metric tonnes a month, which was originally contracted on a four-year basis from Middelburg to Zimbabwe, has increased by 20% with calls for the product from neighbouring countries. “While we are doing this, and offering a fully fledged procurement service as well to our clients, we have now been called on to go out and buy up more than 1500 tons of raw onions in a contract which will need approximately 40 trucks a month to convey these to Zimbabwe,” he says. UGL is meeting an increasing demand for abnormal trucks to move machinery arriving in Durban regularly from Germany and Canada destined for the growing Zambian copper mining industry, he says.